lots of new faces, GTKY :)

dragonfly1809 · October 2014

I've noticed a lot of new intros lately, so first, welcome and congrats to everyone.

Since we often include GTKYs in sub group threads, I thought it might be nice to start an open one for everyone to get in on.

I'm always looking for great boos to add to our Little Free Library, so I thought a book thread would be interesting.

What's your favourite book? Too many to choose? Maybe a children's book? What's on your shelves ladies?

1220winterbride · October 2014

I love to read, Jane Austen to Stephen King and everything else. Lately I'm reading a lot of baby books. "Love you Forever" is a tear jerker esp after i learned the writer wrote it after a loss. ack, i'm choking up just thinking about it!!

goldengirl84 · October 2014

I love "Go, Dog, Go!" A book all about dog's, cars, boats, colors, etc?! It's my son's favorite and I think I could read it blindfolded by now. :o3

longcat07 · October 2014

Happyin14 said:

DS1 LOVED books so for him: Go, Dog, Go (which he had memorized at 2 years old), Pajama Time (which we read/sing EVERY night) and Barnyard Dance (which MH would read and they would do all the dance steps together and we'd giggle!).

barnyard dance is a favorite of DS's too. he also loves a book about a garbage truck called "i stink!" and a couple classics that i know i had when i was a kid...my mom probably had them too, lol: "mike sullivan and his steam shovel" and "katie and the big snow".

myself, i've been into series a lot, a lot of which is at least a little fantasy. outlander et al, garth nix's abhorsen trilogy, his dark materials, harry potter, and also steig larsson's dragon tattoo books, among others. i also like jane austen a lot, for all that the writing style for her time is kind of hard to get into. fiction all the way. i don't like to think too hard when i'm reading. haha

longcat07 · October 2014

Happyin14 said:

@longcat07 - you reminded me of his other favorite book! Little Blue Truck. The original and the one where he goes into the city.

OMG little blue truck! we have both of those too. at one point, we weren't actually reading them to him, we were letting him just turn pages and play with it while we recited it from memory. "HONK cried the dump and he sounded scared, but nobody heard (or nobody cared)." we'd have DS fill in all the honks/beeps and the animal sounds.

matiekae · October 2014

Ive read a lot of Stephen King, and my favorite one is The Stand. I also loved The Hunger Games

Currently I'm reading A Game Of Thrones and on the fourth book

KikiCohen · October 2014

I don't get the chance to read much right now, but I love just about anything by James Patterson. My other favorites are The Hobbit, LOTR, Sense and Sensibility, and The Shining.

DS' favorites are That's Not My Lion, any book that features Sesame Street characters, and Dr Seuss's The Foot Book.

dragonfly1809 · October 2014

My favourite adult books are anything by Simon Winchester and his non-fiction-fiction like The Professor and the Madman and The Map that Changed the World. Also, by Tim Smit, The Lost Gardens of Heligan - a story about his restoration project of a Victorian garden uncovered..totally incredible.

My favourite children's story is by far The Little Prince. For children and adults about people, places, and self. Heartwarming.

I'm loving all the children's books titles - I'm not familiar with many of them ..looking forward to reading them to Oliver and adding them to Finn's Little Library. xo

22roses · October 2014

I'm a sucker for a good True Crime book. Right now I'm reading House Of Secrets, By Lowell Cauffiel
Favorite children's book. Goodnight Moon.

NoeliaV · October 2014

For a long while, Guess How Much I Love You was our night time book. DD does love "Hop on Pop" and any book about babies for day time reading though. I'd like to pick up Green Eggs and Ham because I really like that one myself

Adult books. I love (most) Truman Capote. To Kill A Mockingbird is a perennial fave. I haven't been reading much lately, but I should make time for it

beemaya83 · October 2014

My all time favorite children's book is "CORDUROY".....love that little bear!

classicstar28 · October 2014

Favorite Books: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg, Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White

Currently Reading: Ordinary Life by Elizabeth Berg and listening to The Story Hour by Thrity Umbrigar

Favorite Children's Books: Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin, The Purple Kangaroo by Michael Ian Black, Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, anything by Marguerite Henry (I LOVE horse books).

beemaya83 · October 2014

@goldnengirl84 I finished reading "The Art of Racing In The Rain" by Garth Stein. Its a book told by a perspective of a dog. I think you may enjoy it. There is also a children's version of it too.

BookishMomma · October 2014

Love this question. I'm a writer and, as my SN says, books are pretty much my life. My favorite book that I've read recently was "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell. It's YA, which I don't read a lot of, but the book was just so beautiful and heartfelt. My favorite children's book to read to DS is "When We Were Very Young" by A.A. Milne (same person who wrote Winnie the Pooh). It's silly poems and drawings.

KJsbabe · October 2014

I don't get the chance to read for my own enjoyment a ton, but when I do I like beachy books. I really like The Blue Bistro and Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand (MC's mentioned in Castaways, just an FYI).

DD LOVES books, so we read a lot of kids books. Some of her faves right now are Hippos Go Berserk!, If You Give a Moose a Muffin / Pig a Pancake, Bears on Wheels, Doggies, Press Here, Goodnight Little Bear, any Clifford books, and any Disney princess books.

jlworden710 · October 2014

Books for me, I love anything James Patterson or Gillian Flynn type books... then there are the guilty pleasures of 50 shades and the Sylvia Day Series.

For kids, "Bunny my Honey" will be one that we read and frequent, mainly because it has a special meaning for me. My para in my class when I taught that became an amazing friend was killed 2 years ago, we used to read that book EVERY year to our classes, and it became a staple, the kids loved it. We had it on tape and used to mock the voices to each other. So that for sure and I Love you Forever, since my mom used to read it to me... and its beautiful

peggels24 · October 2014

I love books - of all shapes and sizes. I read a lot of trashy romance novels - quick throw-away reads but when I have more time, I read Stephen King (except the Dark Tower series which I could never get into for some reason) - I'm not sure what my favorite SK book is but possibly It or The Stand.

I also love historical fiction (John Jakes, William Martin). DH has gotten me into some fantasy but I just dabble in that really.

I'm a sucker for Nicholas Sparks - in fact I need to re-read Best of Me so that I can get DH to take me to the movies.

And I like Young Adult series - Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent

I'm all over the place - I really hope that my daughter has my love for reading.

Favorite Children's Book is still up in the air - ask me in two years

E&B0811 · October 2014

For children's books, we love Corduroy and Corduroy Gets a Pocket.

Some of my favorite books, generally, are To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, Harriet the Spy, Catcher in the Rye, Just as Long as Were Together, Is Anybody Out there?, Harry Potter, Me Before You, and Valley of the Dolls

longcat07 · October 2014

peggels24 said:

I love books - of all shapes and sizes. I read a lot of trashy romance novels - quick throw-away reads but when I have more time, I read Stephen King (except the Dark Tower series which I could never get into for some reason) - I'm not sure what my favorite SK book is but possibly It or The Stand.

I also love historical fiction (John Jakes, William Martin). DH has gotten me into some fantasy but I just dabble in that really.

I'm a sucker for Nicholas Sparks - in fact I need to re-read Best of Me so that I can get DH to take me to the movies.

And I like Young Adult series - Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent

I'm all over the place - I really hope that my daughter has my love for reading.

Favorite Children's Book is still up in the air - ask me in two years

you might have been spared something terrible there, lol. i haven't read any stephen king myself but SO is a fan, and he said he loved that series until he got to the end, and then it made him want to throw the book across the room because he felt like he wasted all the time he invested in reading it. lol

peggels24 · October 2014

E&B0811 said:

For children's books, we love Corduroy and Corduroy Gets a Pocket. Some of my favorite books, generally, are To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, Harriet the Spy, Catcher in the Rye, Just as Long as Were Together, Is Anybody Out there?, Harry Potter, Me Before You, and Valley of the Dolls

Oh I forgot about Little Women - that is my go-to book on my Kindle - it's always on there - and if I don't know what I want to read, I read that.

peggels24 · October 2014

longcat07 said:

peggels24 said:

I love books - of all shapes and sizes. I read a lot of trashy romance novels - quick throw-away reads but when I have more time, I read Stephen King (except the Dark Tower series which I could never get into for some reason) - I'm not sure what my favorite SK book is but possibly It or The Stand.

I also love historical fiction (John Jakes, William Martin). DH has gotten me into some fantasy but I just dabble in that really.

I'm a sucker for Nicholas Sparks - in fact I need to re-read Best of Me so that I can get DH to take me to the movies.

And I like Young Adult series - Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent

I'm all over the place - I really hope that my daughter has my love for reading.

Favorite Children's Book is still up in the air - ask me in two years

you might have been spared something terrible there, lol. i haven't read any stephen king myself but SO is a fan, and he said he loved that series until he got to the end, and then it made him want to throw the book across the room because he felt like he wasted all the time he invested in reading it. lol

Good to know

rox825 · October 2014

My favorite book of all time is Jane Eyre. I'm not reading anything currently (besides stuff about pregnancy/childbirth!), but I am in my library's queue to borrow several of the Outlander and Philippa Gregory Tudor e-books next.

My favorite books when I was younger were definitely Go Dog Go and all of the Beatrix Potter stories. I also loved Corduroy!

BackstreetPixie · October 2014

I love any fictional vampire series. Lol for kids books I love a giraffe and a half!

kj808 · October 2014

My kids' favorites are Goodnight Moon and anything by Eric Carle.

Mom2anAngel2 · October 2014

Happyin14 said:
@longcat07 - you reminded me of his other favorite book! Little Blue Truck. The original and the one where he goes into the city.

These are DS's favorite books. DH thinks it's funny because I can recite the books without even looking at them. I think I have read them too many times. LOL

kate6214 · October 2014

I love the Mo Willams Pigeon books and his Piggie and Gerald books too. A favorite of my students was Go Away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberly. They are also huge fans of Pete the Cat.

smcniff · October 2014

My favorite adult author is John Irving, and my favorite book by him is A Prayer for Owen Meany (made into the movie Simon Birch).

There are just too many good childrens books to choose from, but I am a huge Dr. Seuss fan.

E&B0811 · October 2014

smcniff said:
My favorite adult author is John Irving, and my favorite book by him is A Prayer for Owen Meany (made into the movie Simon Birch).

There are just too many good childrens books to choose from, but I am a huge Dr. Seuss fan.

So many people have recommended A Prayer for Owen Meany to me! I need to get my act together and read it.

chicagojackie · October 2014

Goodnight moon
On the night you were born
Pat the bunny
One fish two fish
Ten little ladybugs
Jamberry
Fancy nancy

TheFutureMrsD · October 2014

For adults, I love the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. They are easy reads and always make me laugh.

For kids, there are just too many to say. But, there is a book called The Surprise Doll that was my mom's that I remember reading at my grandmother's house when I played with my mom's old dolls. I ran across a 60th anniversary edition of the book at a bookstore about a year ago. At the time, I bought it thinking I would send it to my BFF's little girl for her birthday or something, but before that rolled around, I found out that we were pregnant again and I decided to keep it in case I was having a girl. Once we found out its a girl, I was glad I held onto it.

dragonfly1809 · October 2014

I'm so happy to read all these book recommendations! I've made notes and am going to do my best to add each one to Finn's Little Free Library.

Hugs ladies, each and every one of you!!

stinybean · October 2014

petrichor10 said:
Sandra Boynton's board books are my favorites for toddlers.

I love everything by Mo Willems (Knuffle Bunny!) and Jan Thomas (such as the Rhyming Dust Bunny books). Oliver Jeffers is one of my new favorite picture book authors/illustrators.

I lovvvvvvvvve the Knuffle Bunny series! I've read it to kindergarteners all the way to fifth graders.

I love reading young adult books. One of my favorites is Cut. I also enjoy the Lying Game series.

RNMoMmy17 · October 2014

The Giving Tree, all time favorite

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