s/o What book has stayed with you?

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Anonymous wrote:
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

It's a YA novel that I picked up because someone's middle schooler had put it down on vacation and I was bore.

It is an incredibly haunting book and has stuck with me for many years.

Strangely, it has the most forgettable title and I have to look it up every time I talk about it.

It looks like there are three more in the series.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I love love loved that book when I read it like 20 years ago but couldn’t get through it when I tried again more recently. Maybe I should pick it up once more . Anyway nice to meet a kindred literary spirit !

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Reading this now. Have a friend in hospice. It’s cathartic. Just starting. I love Newmans writing style. She brings out tears and big belly laughs and it never feels cheap. That’s not easy.

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The Kite Runner

Bridge to Terabithia

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Anonymous wrote:The Kite Runner

Bridge to Terabithia

I found a copy of Bridge to Terabithia in a local book house. I picked it up for old time's sake and opened it, and there was a yellow sticky note that said: "Beware! This book will make you cry" written in a child's handwriting.

As an adult, the only thing I remember about it is that it's very sad. Nothing about the plot!

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The Cider House Rules
Midnight's Children
Crossing to Safety

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Love In The Time Of Cholera. I read it over thirty years ago, and it has stayed with me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Reading this now. Have a friend in hospice. It’s cathartic. Just starting. I love Newmans writing style. She brings out tears and big belly laughs and it never feels cheap. That’s not easy.

I read it earlier this year. I loved the hospice/friendship part, which is centered. But I thought the main character's sex life was cringy and distracting. (I appreciated Newman's attempt to create a bit of contrast and balance with the core focus of the book - just thought her execution was off. Felt super contrived - like it belonged in a different book entirely.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Reading this now. Have a friend in hospice. It’s cathartic. Just starting. I love Newmans writing style. She brings out tears and big belly laughs and it never feels cheap. That’s not easy.

I loved this one too. I sobbed my way through it but it was so wonderful.

My other one is Night. I remember sobbing after reading it in 7th (?) grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Love In The Time Of Cholera. I read it over thirty years ago, and it has stayed with me.

Same— read it about 15 years ago, and had some life events in common with the plot, so it really affected me. Now I still think of certain passages often.