Psalms and Proverbs are some of my favorite books of the Bible, outside of the Bible I'm going to say either The Lord of the Rings trilogy (and The Hobbit) or The Narnia books are my favorites.
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July 4th - Favorite book?
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Psalms and Proverbs are some of my favorite books of the Bible, outside of the Bible I'm going to say either The Lord of the Rings trilogy (and The Hobbit) or The Narnia books are my favorites.
Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Solomon and Ephesians.
Outside of the Bible (when I have time to read) I enjoy Nicolas Sparks’ books.
Outside of the Bible (when I have time to read) I enjoy Nicolas Sparks’ books.
This isn’t an easy question!! 
So, definitely, ONE of my favorite books in the Bible is Proverbs. When I was in high school and in charge of our youth group’s “message board” in the foyer, Proverbs never failed me in regards to good, truthful verses to post. But, tomorrow I may have a different answer!
As for OTHER books... I can’t say just one. It’s a toss-up between “Persuasion”, “Jane Eyre”, and “Anne of Green Gables”. Even just giving you three was difficult!
So, definitely, ONE of my favorite books in the Bible is Proverbs. When I was in high school and in charge of our youth group’s “message board” in the foyer, Proverbs never failed me in regards to good, truthful verses to post. But, tomorrow I may have a different answer!
As for OTHER books... I can’t say just one. It’s a toss-up between “Persuasion”, “Jane Eyre”, and “Anne of Green Gables”. Even just giving you three was difficult!
I love books. All books (well, almost all...). I can't really pick one outside of the bible.
The book I'm currently reading is in the After Cilmeri series, which is based on people who head back in time to Wales in the 13th century and stop it being taken over by England. It is fascinating reading, and as always it's marriage that sticks out to me, as having a 40 year old and a 20 year old marry is no big deal then, nor is the taking of women in war etc. It's just a fictional story of course, but it makes me wonder what things were like when Solomon was writing proverbs, and David was writing his psalms. How different were things then? How much have we changed since then? Things are drastically different now, but has it only been the last 100 years that has changed so much?
I do read for pleasure, but my brain goes overboard with thinking ha ha!
If we're talking the bible, then my favourite book is Revelation. I can't tell you why, and it's rare that YHWH instructs me to read it, but it really grabs my attention.
The book I'm currently reading is in the After Cilmeri series, which is based on people who head back in time to Wales in the 13th century and stop it being taken over by England. It is fascinating reading, and as always it's marriage that sticks out to me, as having a 40 year old and a 20 year old marry is no big deal then, nor is the taking of women in war etc. It's just a fictional story of course, but it makes me wonder what things were like when Solomon was writing proverbs, and David was writing his psalms. How different were things then? How much have we changed since then? Things are drastically different now, but has it only been the last 100 years that has changed so much?
I do read for pleasure, but my brain goes overboard with thinking ha ha!
If we're talking the bible, then my favourite book is Revelation. I can't tell you why, and it's rare that YHWH instructs me to read it, but it really grabs my attention.
Favorite books: The Time Traveler's Wife, PS: I love you, The Notebook & The Green Mile. The Harry Potter series.
I enjoy reading through Shakespeare's, some Stephen King, and Poe's stuff.
Honestly, I will read, mostly, anything that I can get a hold of or am interested in.
As far as the Bible I enjoy reading Esther, Job, Phillipians, 1st Corinthians, and Revelations. I have a ton of different stories I enjoy reading over and over again, too.
I enjoy reading through Shakespeare's, some Stephen King, and Poe's stuff.
Honestly, I will read, mostly, anything that I can get a hold of or am interested in.
As far as the Bible I enjoy reading Esther, Job, Phillipians, 1st Corinthians, and Revelations. I have a ton of different stories I enjoy reading over and over again, too.
There are TOO MANY to mention, although I will tell you that my all time favorite series is The Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. This is kind of similiar to Sarah's series with it being time travel to the past. A 1945 war nurse travels back in time to Scotland before the war of Culloden and it travels with her and a highlander through the early settlement times of America.
I love reading autobiographies, biographies, and historical books about home and women studies.
One of my favorite bible books would have to be Genesis. So many great stories, and, I really like the begats. I am terrible at the name pronunciation but, I love to see all the lineage and be able to go back and say oh he is from that line.
As for a fav. of any other books, I have sooo many.Reading through here I just kept saying, oh that one is sooo good! So, I will just pick a few in no particular order. The Last Lecture by: Randy Pausch, Coop by: Michael Perry, and I am ridiculous when it comes to Amish romances.
As for a fav. of any other books, I have sooo many.Reading through here I just kept saying, oh that one is sooo good! So, I will just pick a few in no particular order. The Last Lecture by: Randy Pausch, Coop by: Michael Perry, and I am ridiculous when it comes to Amish romances.
I don't think I've read any of his books but I reconize the name - did he write The Notebook?
This isn’t an easy question!!
So, definitely, ONE of my favorite books in the Bible is Proverbs. When I was in high school and in charge of our youth group’s “message board” in the foyer, Proverbs never failed me in regards to good, truthful verses to post. But, tomorrow I may have a different answer!
As for OTHER books... I can’t say just one. It’s a toss-up between “Persuasion”, “Jane Eyre”, and “Anne of Green Gables”. Even just giving you three was difficult!
Oh I know! Answering this one is a hard one! My mom read me Anne of Green Gables when I was little but don't remember much of it, I will need to reread it! And I haven't read the other two so I need to put them on my list too!
I haven't heard of the After Cilmeri series, will have to look into them! I like books that take places in different periods, right now I am reading the Poldark series.
I read an outrageous amount of Stephen King and Poe when I was a teenager! I had like no kidding over 30 SK books. My favorite was Bag of Bones, but since then I tried to read it and it wasn't the same. My husband thinks it's a great shame I never read anything but the first Gunslinger novel... I will need to look into the first two books you mentioned. I think my mom has told me about the first one. I also read about half of the Harry Potter books, but it kind of went by the wayside when I was given the LOTR books. I'm what I call "The Master of the Half Book", I have a bad habit of reading half a book and then starting another and never finishing the first.
These sound really interesting too! I think my mom might have listened to the audiobook of this and told me about it.. I'll have to ask her again because if so it was really interesting from what she told me about it!
I honestly haven't really read many of these, but my mom tells me about a lot of the books she reads and whenever it's one of these I'm like "Wow that is amazing! I never knew that about whatever person/place!" and she'll be like "That's why you should read about them. "
lol I am terrible at pronunciation too! I will have to look into the books you mentioned as I haven't heard of them either! One year for Christmas Slumber bought me a romance novel and cut out a picture of his face and taped it over the face of the man on the cover as a funny present, I tried to read it because he bought it for me, but couldn't get into it lol. I think I still have it somewhere...
I'm currently slogging through Moby Dick. My last grapple was with Anna Karenina. Absolutely wonderful. And Paradise Lost was some of the best pre-marital counseling that I received 7 years ago.
When you say slogging do you mean it in the way that it is a chore to endure it? I've always wanted to read it, but haven't yet. I haven't read anything from Anna Karenina, but I'll see what my library carries. Also I am now interested in Paradise Lost because you said it was great pre-marital counseling.
I want to start the little house on the prairie series with my kiddos here soon
I want to start the little house on the prairie series with my kiddos here soon
As I was writing my reply I kept thinking of these books! I read them in junior high and loved them!!
At times, yes. But mostly just because I'm getting it done verrrry slowly. I do good if I read a chapter a week, lol.
Oh, my kids thoroughly enjoy these! My oldest (boy) especially enjoyed “Farmer Boy”.
Well, they've pretty much turned to pot, *sigh*.
So here's the thing, don't get offended by this everyone, but Americans in general have this idea that their country/freedom/political system/society is perfect and it must be inflicted on everyone else. You see it really strongly in missionaries, but also just in anyone you talk to on the street.
The people in this book are mostly American, and so they've decided that they need to change Wales. Of course they want to make penicillin etc and work on cleanliness, but they also want to change the whole political system. Lets add in democracy, and the same government structure, and a bill of rights. While we're at it, lets give women the vote and put them into higher places in society.
In fact, the whole thing is becoming very feminist. Every single woman mentioned is a strong woman that is intelligent, wants to be in charge, and is super good at fighting. Yes, lets get the queen of England with a bow and arrow and leading all the archers on the castle wall when they're attacked. That's very realistic.
And now they're trying to get vaccinations sorted.
I am trying to look past it all, because I do enjoy the books and the story and I want to know what happens in the end. It is getting a bit frustrating though.
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I'm certainly not offended. On the contrary I think the lack of intelligent thought behind what most Americans regurgitate and call their ideas, beliefs, and opinions is sad and offensive.
Trying to spread what Americans call freedom is really an open assault on the freedom of most other countries.
Let's help other countries be free....to get permits for everything....and pay taxes on everything.....and vote for the lessor of evil politicians who will make laws that benifit the big corporations, and vote themselves pay raises.
I better stop before I get going. Lol
Ahhh The Red Tent by Annita Dimant.
The Shack by William P Young. Both I have read so many times and have been forever altered.
The Red Tent was my introduction to Polygyny 18? years ago... I never knew it would have such a huge part of my life now. Crazy!
The Shack by William P Young. Both I have read so many times and have been forever altered.
The Red Tent was my introduction to Polygyny 18? years ago... I never knew it would have such a huge part of my life now. Crazy!
Lol, yeah that's my thoughts too. I think part of the problem is that what people grow up with and are taught in schools they think is normal and right, so they think that this will actually be best for everyone else. It's hard to take a step back and look at everything critically and it requires the type of thinking that isn't taught in public schools. I was speaking to someone recently who was worried about starting home schooling because they hadn't finished high school so didn't see how they could teach their children, and I said that all they needed to teach their kids was how to read and to question everything. Teach them to look into everything, to think outside the box, to come up with new ideas, to not go with the status quo. You don't need any qualifications to be able to do that.
I could not agree more. Well said!
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