Anonymous
Post 08/10/2024 21:17     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2024 21:13     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
The Red Tent
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2024 21:08     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
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.)
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2024 16:37     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
100 Years of Solitude
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Olive Kitteridge
Never Let Me Go
1Q84
East of Eden
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2024 16:36     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
Anonymous wrote:Never Let Me Go. Something about the ephemeral nature of life, and how it is taken from us…


This one has stayed with me as well.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2024 16:13     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2024 16:09     Subject: Re:s/o What book has stayed with you?
The Clan of the Cave Bear and the first two sequels.
It made me realize people haven't changed much.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2024 16:06     Subject: Re:s/o What book has stayed with you?
When Rabbit Howls.
I read this about 30 years ago. Unimaginable childhood abuse.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2024 22:06     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
Never Let Me Go. Something about the ephemeral nature of life, and how it is taken from us…
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2024 22:02     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
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
Post 08/09/2024 21:49     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
I rarely do audio books, but did for Far From the Tree. Especially powerful hearing it in his voice.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2024 21:36     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.)


That is a really good book.


That stayed with me too.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2024 21:03     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
Anonymous wrote: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.)


That is a really good book.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2024 20:59     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
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
Post 08/09/2024 19:28     Subject: s/o What book has stayed with you?
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.