📚 World Book Day 2022 - Tell us your favorite book and inspire others!
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Fun facts about me. I could read before I started school. My main punishment as a child....was a reading ban. Even at 6 I would read until 3am and I always took the maximum amount of books out of the library. It was like Christmas when they made it 16 at a time lol.
My favourite childhood memories involve being allowed to go into the small local book shop and buy a new book courtesy mostly of my grandparents. The smells 🥰
I still read like that but I don't read Enid Blyton anymore. I like a lot of Dystopian books (hunger games type) paranormal fantasy (yes Twilight types) Cassandra clare. Some old types set back years ago, think like Bridgerton. But I haven't read that yet. I was reading the style long ago. Sometimes thrillers as well, it depends on my mood.
My favourite authors right now are often indie authors (available via ebook services too). Kristen Banet who writes amazing and detailed worlds. Auryn Hadley. Many others who I stalk on Facebook. Off there, Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson series) . Anne Bishops (the others series) Sarah J Maas. And sometimes just random light hearted ones that make you smile.
I am passionate about being fair to authors. Never buy a book from A and return it after reading. Never read when you find your favourite books on free sites unless authorised by the authors. Some of them charge so little anyway and reading their work on free sites is no better than stealing.
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I listen to audiobooks while I play candy crush and do do things around the house. I never thought I'd break away from the lovely feel of flipping the pages but I go through an audiobook about every 2 days. Soooo many favorites. Staying away from the classics, Kristen Hannah's The Nightingale and The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden are two of my favorites.
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Thanks for the thread @Lady_Sarinaand for the tag @Diamond_Lim xo
I am hot and cold when it comes to reading but when I do get into a book I always enjoy it...
@rebelchild I sooo agree on the S E Hinton Outsiders book, it really stuck with me as a teen, I cried reading it and loved it and her That Was Then This Is Now book was awesome too!
@Boybinary Ken Follet is one of my favourite authors...
I have read 5 of these books by Ken Follet and am currently on the last in the 2nd trilogy Edge of Eternity which I may or may not get through this summer. I am more of a fall/winter reader
Pillars of the Earth is one of my all time favourite books but seriously all these books are excellent!!!
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Dear @Lady_Choo , I can relate to all you write 😍 Enid Blyton and Astrid Lindgren as a child, the local book store, the smells and the dreams...mmm...
I've also read some "new classics" like the Hunger Games and the Twilight Saga- it started because my daughter, who was a tween at that time, wanted to read them, and I wanted to have a look first 😅, but it gave me lots of conversation topics with her, and also some visits to the cinema later on! I've read some Bridgerton books- they're not bad 😅
@wykoon , to your question about Dürrenmatt and Almudena Grandes- they're both authors, not books.
Dürrenmatt is a Swiss writer, and some of my fav works from him include The Physicists, The Visit, and The Judge and his Hangman.
Almudena Grandes was Spanish and died last year. Not many of her books have been translated into other languages, but if you want to give it a try, you can maybe find The Frozen Heart. It's the one I'm reading at the moment, and it's available in English 😊
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Hello @Pounawea,
I discovered books in an old little bookstore when I was 10 and am reading since then. At that time my favorite books were the series of Winnetou, Old Shatterhand, Old Surehand of author Karl Friedrich May (1842-1912).
Later in time my curiosity/intrests went in many different directions going from religions, cultures, astrology, spirituality, history, psychology, mythology, saga's biographies etc... I can't say to have a favorite, they are all favorites.
Am reading alternatively 3 books at the moment. The biography of H.P. Blavatsky, one of the founders of the Theosophical Society in New York (1875). The subject of the other 2 are the mysteries of the Pyramids. These 2 books are old and belonged to my late father.
Thx for the tag @Diamond_Lim
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Oh wow a great thread... I love reading 😊I read lots of book but I'm writing my favorite ones😁 Harry potter series, series of sophie kinsella's book and her shopaholic series , but.. Can You keep a secret is my most favorite ❤❤❤ I already read this book 10 times... the series of Vampire Academy , Jane Eyre and many many more.... I'm a bookworm 😊😊😊 I read anything .. comics, series, biography, history anything...
