s/o What book has stayed with you?
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Affinity by Sarah waters
Prep by Curtis sittenfeld |
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| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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| Gail Caldwell's Let's Take the Long Way Home. The book critic's memoir regarding the loss of her good friend author Caroline Knapp. |
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Every Last One by Anna Quindlen.
It's not my favorite book that I've ever read, or the best, or the most "important" (whatever that means), but whenever I'm asked about a book that has stayed with me, this one always comes immediately to mind. It's been years since I read it, but I can still distinctly remember how the book affected me as I read it and I can instantly conjure up that feeling now as I think about the book. That's what makes it so memorable for me. It's a book about a family, told from the perspective of the mother, but I think it's best if you read it without knowing any more than that |
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| The Book Thief. Oh goodness, how that ending wrecked me. |
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Books I read and loved as a child have stayed with me the most, maybe because I had an opportunity to study and discuss them at school.
- The Stranger - The Little Prince - Catcher in the Rye - 1984 - All of Dostoevsky, for some reason the Idiot more than others - All of Jane Austin - To Kill a Mockingbird - The Makioka Sisters |
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I still occasionally wake up in a cold sweat over Bridge to Terabithia. I think about The Little Prince more often than I would have expected, as well as The Phantom Tollbooth and the short story The Lottery. |
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The Seas by Samantha Hunt - quirky little book with a great cover.
Bridge to Terabithia . . . . . . . . . same |
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Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
It's a sad and complex book but so many glimpses of the wealthy set of the area stay with you. It's flashes of wealth and the perfect life juxtaposed with moments behind the scenes, or private moments with Nicole and Dick that take your breath away. Like others here, not my fave book, but the writing is outstanding and the imagery that stays with you is ... well it stays with you. (I'm no F. Scott) |
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Ooh - great to hear. I’m just starting her new novel (Sandwich). |
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| Wave — about the 2003 Sri Lanka tsunami |
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin.
I don’t think I’ll ever forget Sam and Sadie. I grew so incredibly attached to them both and hated for the book to end. I think it had something to do with how Zevin laid bare their vulnerabilities at every stage. I felt like they were real people The other one that comes to mind is This Is How It Always Is, by Laurie Frankel. That whole family has stuck with me. ❤️ And on a darker note, The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright. Journalistic non-fiction tracing the tragic lead up to 9/11 from multiple perspectives. Even though we all know how the “story” ends, it was riveting and suspenseful. And so deeply sad and lasting, almost 15 years later. |
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| I feel like a Philistine for this but Rule of the Bone. I read it when I was young. I had a very overprotective mother and was so fascinated by the protagonists independence and freedom. It seemed so attractive to me at the start of the story but Banks shows how fragile his situation was. |
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That story was so hard to bear. I Google her on occasion to see how she’s doing. |
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| The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion |