Please Read

[jcatt]

All right everyone...please recommend a book to me.
Do you want to know what I like?

Comments

[gen_here]

I always recommend A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith - It's my favorite =)

Now... what do you like? =)

[jcatt]

Oh, I just meant...you know if you needed ideas about what I might like. I don't usually like particular authors. I read anything and everything (well sort of). Like I have a host of things I don't like. Horror, smut, romance novels, not a big fan of mystery/thriller. I like autobiographies, biographies (if they are done well and done right). I love novels about life and love and friendship. I like "slice of life" stories. I like books where I learn more about Jesus/faith etc.

[gen_here]

Have you read Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers? Or her Atonement Child?

[jcatt]

Haven't.
But I will check it out...thanks.

[jcatt]

What kinda stuff does he write?

[jcatt]

Cool.

[upon_whimsy]

what kind of stuff do you like?

[jcatt]

Ok I can tell you what I don't particularly care for.
I don't usually like particular authors. I read anything and everything (well sort of). Like I have a host of things I don't like. Horror, smut, romance novels, not a big fan of mystery/thriller. I like autobiographies, biographies (if they are done well and done right). I love novels about life and love and friendship. I like "slice of life" stories. I like books where I learn more about Jesus/faith etc.

I'm especially looking for a novel. A good one.

[upon_whimsy]

I love novels about life and love and friendship.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon will be the perfect novel then on those accounts. One of my faves.

[jcatt]

Awesome.
I'm definitely going to check them out then.

[katv]

I love almost anything by George MacDonald. The Light Princess or the Princess and the Goblins are probably the best to start with, but the Wise Woman (sometimes called the Lost Princess) is my all-time fave.

[jcatt]

What's it about?

[katv]

It's a morality fairy tale about a princess who is spoiled rotten and her parents ask this wise woman to help them with her and she carries her off to her cottage and through various things teaches her to be a worthy human being. There is also a shepherd girl who the wise woman takes in for the same purpose who is incredibly vain, but she hasn't learned so well by the end of the story.
I guess I find it important to mention that George MacDonald was one of the first fantasy writers (late 1800s), and was CS Lewis' 'hero.' If fairy tales don't interest you, he wrote adult fantasy, 'Christian fiction' and contemplative stuff as well. Then there's his sermons.

[saoirsemeara]

The complete texts of some of his writings are available to read online as well, handy since some of his best stuff is out of print.

[paat]

The Sign and The Seal by Graham Hancock. It's about the Ark of the Covenant.

[jcatt]

In what format?
Is it fictional?
Is it historically correct?
Do I ask too many questions ;)

[jcatt]

Ohhhh....checked it out on amazon...I think I might like it!
Thanks!