My top 5 books Ever
these are books that, for different reasons, have stayed in my head...haunted me...or altered my life somehow.
Some are just stories with writing that I deeply admire.
5...The Charm School by Nelson DeMille. So exciting, I have read this book about 10 times
4...Timeline by Michael Crichton. I LOVE his mix of science and imagination. Brilliant book.
3...Lord of the Flies by William Golding. This was part of my dissertation; I love the psychology.
2...The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. The best ghost story ever written. Menacing, cruel, sinister....creepy, dark.....
and my number 1 has to be:
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. Just a delight to read. My heart breaks for Holden. ''Roller-skate skinny'' phrases from this book will stay with me for ever.
Interesting that my top three were all written in the 1950s hmm?
My top 10 would include at least two by Stephen King... and Maya Angelou.. and definitely John Grisham. I will decide my top 10 children's books too - <Hello, Mo Willems...>
As an aside,
There is a book out there that I lent my sister and she lost <boo!>
about an unmarried mothers' home, where one character works in a bakery and makes cream cakes. It is a beautiful story and desperately sad. Can't remember title or author, I'm afraid.
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