s/o What book has stayed with you?
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I was just looking at the "best book you've read" thread and I started thinking of a book that maybe isn't the best book I've read, but it's one that stayed with me the longest. I read it in high school and again in my 20s and there's something about it... a feeling it evokes I guess, that even in my 40s it has stayed with me.
Anyone else have a book like that? Not necessarily their favorite, but one that has stuck with them? For me, it's My Antonia by Willa Cather. |
Anonymous
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Far From the Tree, by Andrew Solomon
Deep, thought-provoking, and overflowing with empathy. I genuinely believe it helped me become a better parent (and person.) |
Anonymous
That is a really good book. |
Anonymous
That stayed with me too. |
Anonymous
| I rarely do audio books, but did for Far From the Tree. Especially powerful hearing it in his voice. |
Anonymous
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Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood
The complications of mother daughter relationships and importance of girlfriends really hit home for me at the time I read it. |
Anonymous
| Never Let Me Go. Something about the ephemeral nature of life, and how it is taken from us… |
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When Rabbit Howls.
I read this about 30 years ago. Unimaginable childhood abuse. |
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The Clan of the Cave Bear and the first two sequels.
It made me realize people haven't changed much. |
Anonymous
Oh yes! At the time I was reading it, my daughter was 13 or 14. Out of the blue, I told her, "Daughter, some day you are going to look back on your life and blame me for all kinds of stuff, which is fine, but I want you to know that I have always loved you to the moon and back and I am doing the best I know how." My daughter was like . . . umm, okay. 
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Anonymous
This one has stayed with me as well. |
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100 Years of Solitude
A Prayer for Owen Meany Olive Kitteridge Never Let Me Go 1Q84 East of Eden |
Anonymous
| The books that have stayed with me most, have been memoirs. Malcolm X's Autobiography and A Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan (South African white journalist during apartheid.) |
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| The Red Tent |
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| We all want impossible things by Catherine Newman. It was heartbreaking and funny and I sobbed through it. But I think about that book often. |