Booklr Question – What’s your favorite book?
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What is your favorite book?
Picking a favorite book has to be one of the hardest things ever. I know lots of people who would equate this question to choosing a favorite child, but since i don’t have any I can’t tell you if that’s true. More often than not, I’m likely to tell you that my favorite book is whichever one I’m reading right now. But given some time to sit and think about it, I would probably tell you that it was a toss up between three different books –
- American Gods by Neil Gaimen,
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, and
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
While these are wildly different stories, there is a bit of a theme in my choice of favorite books. They all lean toward fantasy, are well researched, and even more well written.
Do you have a favorite book?
If you mean favourite books of all time, well that’s a long list! LOL I measure them by the number of times I have (and will continue to) re-read them, or how happy the mere memory of them makes me. Or sometimes, what an excellent piece of writing they are.
Favourite in terms of excellent writing (and also on the many times reread list): Rumer Godden’s “In This House of Brede”
Many of my favourites are children’s classics, among which Kenneth Grahame’s “Wind in the Willows” (known round our way simply as The Book), Frances Burnett’s “The Secret Garden”, and the one I wish would be reprinted, a lovely little picture book by Johanna Johnston called “Sugarplum” about a tiny doll who gets lost.
More serious writing would include The Last Conversations of St. Therese of Lisieux, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Journal of Katherine Mansfield and the playbook for David Mamet’s adaptation of Chekov’s play Uncle Vanya (the film is Vanya on 42nd Street).
I haven’t read most of those books, however The Wind in the Willows and The Secret Garden are two of my favorites from childhood. I’m actually working on re-reading The Wind in the Willows right now, between reading books for review.