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fleeflee
Board Fanatic
Member since 7/02 750 total posts
Wedding Date:
9/21/2003 12:00 AM
Wed. Location:
Hamlet on Olde Oyster Bay
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Do you have an all time favorite book?
One that you've read more than once or whose charaters stick with you?
I guess I have a few --
Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons
Gold Coast - Nelson Demille
Lily White - Susan Isaacs
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Posted 2/18/03 6:33 PM 
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michele31
Molly Eva's Mommy
Member since 6/01 10679 total posts
Wedding Date:
11/2/2002 12:00 AM
Wed. Location:
The Hamlet Windwatch
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
Gulliver's Travels
Diary of Ann Frank
Anne of Green Gables
Are you my mother?
new additions:
Red Tent
Poisonwood Bible
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Posted 2/18/03 6:55 PM
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JennRenee
Patiently Waiting For Summer
Member since 3/01 8164 total posts
Wedding Date:
7/6/2001 3:30 PM
Wed. Location:
Flowerfield
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
Great question! 
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
One Child by Torey Hayden
Alex: The Life of a Child by Frank DeFord
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
and my guilty pleasure book...
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
My favorite children's books are
Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney
Chewey Louie by Howie Schneider
and
I'll Always Love You by Hans Wilhelm
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Posted 2/18/03 7:05 PM
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Teri
Mommy to Emily :)
Member since 3/01 5491 total posts
Wedding Date:
10/5/2002 4:00 PM
Wed. Location:
Old Field Club, Stonybrook
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
hmmm - so many! I guess my faves are: Gold Coast & Plum Island -both by Nelson DeMille
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Posted 2/18/03 7:42 PM
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Diane
Is School Over Yet????
Member since 2/01 9413 total posts
Wedding Date:
8/17/2001 12:00 AM
Wed. Location:
Villa Lombardis
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
Jenn...Guess How Much i Love You is My Fav. childresn's book too
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Posted 2/18/03 9:14 PM
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Helene718
"I'm Addicted"
Member since 9/02 2187 total posts
Wedding Date:
7/18/2003 4:00 PM
Wed. Location:
The Meadow Club
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
The Bible
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
The Red Tent - Anita Diamont
Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Children's books:
All of the Harry Potter books
The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
Anything Dr. Seuss
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Posted 2/18/03 10:50 PM
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jenny11.9
The List Keeper
Member since 1/02 4536 total posts
Wedding Date:
11/9/2002 12:00 AM
Wed. Location:
Oheka Castle
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jitterbug Perfume
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Posted 2/20/03 8:28 AM
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starhead
"I'm Addicted"
Member since 10/02 1129 total posts
Wedding Date:
3/30/2003 12:00 AM
Wed. Location:
Pt. Jeff Country Club
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
Naked by David Sedaris and Me Talk Pretty One Day, also by Sedaris.
Watership Down
Backroads (can't remember author, but it was an Oprah Book)
A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson
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Posted 2/20/03 9:01 AM
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Helene718
"I'm Addicted"
Member since 9/02 2187 total posts
Wedding Date:
7/18/2003 4:00 PM
Wed. Location:
The Meadow Club
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
bump for Shamma
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Posted 4/6/03 4:44 PM
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dandj
Haven't been here in a while..
Member since 1/02 1955 total posts
Wedding Date:
7/28/2002 2:00 PM
Wed. Location:
Milleridge Inn - The Cottage
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille. I love that book!!!
Also, the Great Gatsby - made we want to live in that time period!
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Posted 4/6/03 8:29 PM
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natasha
Blessed to be Briana's mommy
Member since 6/01 3570 total posts
Wedding Date:
5/27/2001 12:00 PM
Wed. Location:
Chateau Briand
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
I love this topic. I have quite a few. I will BRB with my list.
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Posted 4/6/03 10:31 PM
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Jordan
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Member since 4/03 5708 total posts
Wedding Date:
9/3/2004 6:30 PM
Wed. Location:
Hamlet Wind Watch
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
Great thread...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Most anything by Anais Nin
The Red Tent, Anita Diamont
Memoirs of a Geisha, S Golden
Any Shel Silverstein book
The 3rd & 4th Harry Potter books
Message edited 4/10/2003 10:28:52 AM.
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Posted 4/10/03 10:25 AM
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xjulietx
It's A Sickness!
Member since 4/03 6637 total posts
Wedding Date:
6/20/2004 3:30 PM
Wed. Location:
Westbury Manor
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
Another vote for Gold Coast (and DeMille in general)
Are You My Mother?
The Grannyman by Judy Schachner
Horse Whisperer.
I work in children's publishing, so children's favorites change every day
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Posted 4/11/03 2:15 PM
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natasha
Blessed to be Briana's mommy
Member since 6/01 3570 total posts
Wedding Date:
5/27/2001 12:00 PM
Wed. Location:
Chateau Briand
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
Color Purple
Memoir of a geisha
20 years in a desert jail
Roots
macolm x
The pearl - I want to read this one again
The bluest eyes - this one too
Finding fish
A lesson before dying
Their eyes were watching god
The coldest winter ever
Message edited 4/11/2003 6:38:07 PM.
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Posted 4/11/03 6:16 PM
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verdila
"I'm Addicted"
Member since 9/01 1042 total posts
Wedding Date:
9/14/2002 3:30 PM
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Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?
Some of my faves that I read in HS/ then college as an English major:
Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Fortunate Pilgrim (Mario Puzo)
A Tree Grows in Brookyln (Betty Smith)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (DH Lawrence)
Some recents:
Memoirs of a Geisha (arthur Golden?)
A Cook's Tour (Anthony Bourdain)
The Corrections (Jonathon Franzen)
The Hundred Secret Senses (Amy Tan)
Children's/Young Adult:
Good Night Moon
Peter Rabbit
Amelia Bedelia
any Judy Blume
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Message edited 5/5/2003 3:02:11 PM.
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Posted 5/5/03 2:56 PM
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