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my favorite book right now ... sitting on my desk at school (rm. 1) is ...
you've got a friend
It's full of thoughts to celebrate the joy of friendship.
I try to email friends encouraging words and quotes in the little {pockets} of my day ... just to let them know that although life is busy - I'm still thinking of them.

You've probably had someone say this already, but seriously, the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer is one of my all time favorite books!! I read all 4 books in 5 days! I never heard about it until all my co-workers were reading and gushing about it. So out of curiousity I read it and LOVED it! LOL.
Enjoy!

I love the Time Traveler's Wife...It's so different and so good :)

Since all I read are kids books due to the fact that I have an almost 4 year old and a 7 week old I will tell you my favorite book is Harry the dirty dog.
Tricia C.

I tend to read cookbooks like they are novels. Joy of Cooking is so full of information and I find myself looking through it daily!

I have just finished reading The Kite Runner by Kahled Hosseini. I'd recommend it because it's so real, and it is sad, but indeed, "there is a way to be good again."

i am re reading the twilight series loved but if your not into that i highly recommend bringing up boys by dr james dobson opened my eyes to whole new world

My favorite book right now is "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford. I just finished it and it is wonderful!

Favorite book of all time is Wuthering Heights.

I highly reccomend The Giver by Lois Lowry
a book everyone should read at some point in their life.

so cool. book? umm...I have not picked up a 'BOOK' since I was last required to read in college...LOL. I fall asleep everything I pick up a book...before I finish the first page...I'm out! So instead...I just have stacks of magazines to read instead along with all the 'eyecandy'. CK mag, SBtrends mag, someone sub. me on family fun...but I am a magazine junkie! I'd visit the newstand and pick out random stuff that looks good. Still...I can only afford to read a few pages each night before dozing off!

One of my favorite reads is a book called 'See You in 100 Years - Four Seasons in Forgotten America' by Logan Ward. this couple sell their New York home and buy an old farm. They gut it of most of it's modern conveiences and commit to one year of life in 1901 i believe. They have a baby that is on this adventure with them. They shop for authentic period belongings, grow and can thier own food, buy a cart to be pulled in for transportation... it's amazing. Get it! It's just come to paperback now I think. Talk about living simply!

I loved Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen and Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Reading is as necessary as breating to me and I love your topic today. I can list SO many good books and favorite authors.Diane Mott Davidson's Goldie serious, great culinary mysteries with fab recipes. Bodie and Brock Thoene, especially Twilight of Courage amd the Zion Chronicles. Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series, reading it for the second time.

I really don't have a very favorite book - I like to experience all kinds of genres - I am however looking forward to my next read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I am in Spring Cleaning mode right now and LOVED When Organizing Isn't Enough, SHED by Julie Morgenstern.

My favorite book right now is "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford. Really great read.

I love reading! I can't list only one favorite, but I'll keep it to a couple. Of course, the Twilight series is a fun one to read. A couple of other short, easy, awesome novels are Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli) and The Giver (Lois Lowry). Both are YA fiction and awesome!
:) Sharon

I just finished Drood by Dan Simmons. Very long, but worth it - a great book.

A favorite book of mine is actually the first in a trilogy, it is called "These Is My Words" by Nancy Turner. A really endearing and touching story of life on the frontier of Arizona back in the late 1800's. I loved it, and subsequently enjoyed the other books that continued Sarah Prine's story.
Another great read that I just finished is "Still Alice" all about a Harvard professor that develops early-onset Alzeihmers disease at the age of 50. Beautiful and heart-wrenching story.

My favorite book of all time would have to be "The Secret Art of Homemaking" by Edith Schaeffer.
She is so artistic in her mind and spirit. I still don't have it down yet, and am still as unorganized as I have always been, but this book gives me hope to love my surroundings and everything that is in it. To make beautiful every area of my life. This book is definitely one that any scrapbooker should read, that anyone should read, really. I know I will be reading it over and over again.
Amy B.
PS. I could really use the organizing paper clutter CD, you have listed above. If you saw my scrapbook table you would faint. I'm surprised that the table doesn't collapse from the weight of junk on it.