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I am still stuck on the Twilight hoopla, besides that I'd have to say almost any book by Jodi Picoult.

I just love to read so much, and having kids has definitely squelched that a bit. I don't read nearly as much as I used to. I just finished Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. It was a good story, and shows you that no matter how old you get, you still feel like a young person at heart.

I recommend:
-The Time Traveler's Wife
-Twilight series! :-D
-The Birth Order Book
-Healthy Child, Healthy World
Amy in CA

My favorite book is 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I read it back in the early 70's in college and still have my copy with its yellowed pages and a world of magical realism and mystery about one large and unusual South American family. A new addition was published when he won the Nobel Prize but I reread my shabby and well-loved copy again, once more transported to a world of wonder. Harry Potter might be more famous but he was definitely not the first to experience a magical place and time.

One of my all-time favourites is The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - love it! I also really like Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

A book that I recommend is Born On A Blue Day by Daniel Tammet. It is written by an autistic savant; he has written about how he sees the world (numbers and letters) and his experiences throughout his life. I always wonder if people see the same things the way I do - this book really spoke to me on that level.

I really love to read and look at cook books! believe it or not! I also love pretty much everything from Nicholas Sparks. they are a little dramatic at times but it is something different to read and i like the way he writes, can't put the book down!!
thanks and hope you are able to get some reading done with Anna!!

My favorite book is Bridges of Madison County.

Favorite books is a tough one, as books are my obsession but a few current reads that have been good are: Skeletons at the Feast (for me), Gooseberry Park (for my 6 year old) and A Book for Bramble (for my 4 year old)

I love the book Illusions by Richard Bach. It's fable, has some great quotes and sustains a positive message about appreciating the moments in your life.

There are many good books that I love but the ones that are most powerful are some of my children's favoites. The chance to curl up together and enjoy a story filled action, or gentleness or joy are priceless memories, so my favorites include "Goodnight Moon", "Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy" "Chicka-chicka-boom-boom", No David No", and so many more.

I've jumped on the "Twilight" bandwagon/series and can't put them down!
Great question today - lots of books to add to my list!

The give aways look gooood!
Books....I bet you are going tog et alot saying Twilight but I am more a Mauve Binchy fan....I salavate when I know she has a new book on the way....if I had to pick just one that she has done as my favourite it would be firefly summer. She is fantasatic at story telling!

Favorite book? That's hard! I love all books! I'd have to say I love Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn. Great stuff!

I would recommend "A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana" by Haven Kimmel. It's a biography by writer Haven Kimmel who recounts growing up in small town in the 1970s and 1980s with a crazy family. Wonderfully written and sometimes down right hilarious, it's the best of all her books. Read this one first and then read the sequel, "She Got up Off the Couch: and Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana" to find out what happens to her neurotic mother and other family members in later years.

As a mother of 2 preschoolers I haven't read any novels lately. However I have been reading "Positive Discipline for Preschoolers" by Jane Nelson and I highly recommend it!

I loved "Eat, Pray, Love". You may have read this one already though...

One of my favorite books, and it probably changed my life was "I Will Survive and You Can too" By Tammy Faye Mesner. Yep, Tammy Faye Baker, you remember her? It was kind a biography of sorts, and really let the reader get to know her etc. Wonderful read.

Hm... classic would be "To Kill A Mockingbird". Another one that I'm currently enjoying is Annie Liebovitz - At Work.

i overdid my reading,,, and got 3 books
1, james patterson, sunday@tiffany's
2. 13 is the 18 (i personally will have a teen in 6 month
3. the b*tch in the house