Booking Through Thursday: First Fifteen

“This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. 1. Night by Elie Wiesel 2. Native Son by Richard Wright 3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 4. The [...]

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Booking Through Thursday: Symbolism

Question suggested by Barbara H: My husband is not an avid reader, and he used to get very frustrated in college when teachers would insist discussing symbolism in a literary work when there didn’t seem to him to be any. He felt that writers often just wrote the story for the story’s sake and other [...]

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Bookin’ Through Thursday: Worst Book You’ve Ever Read

Suggested by Janet: How about, “What’s the worst ‘best’ book you’ve ever read — the one everyone says is so great, but you can’t figure out why?” I have two answers for this one and both were read in college.  One is Moby Dick.  While I appreciate the themes of this book, I did not [...]

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Booking Through Thursday

What book do you think should be made into a movie? And do you have any suggestions for the producers? Or, What book do you think should NEVER be made into a movie? Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or [...]

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Booking Through Thursday

We’ve all seen the lists, we’ve all thought, “I should really read that someday,” but for all of us, there are still books on “The List” that we haven’t actually gotten around to reading. Even though we know they’re fabulous. Even though we know that we’ll like them. Or that we’ll learn from them. Or [...]

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