[bksvol-discuss] Re: Another New Year's Challenge: Bookshare Volunteers' "100 Most Enjoyable Books of all Time"
- From: "Molly O'Sullivan" <molly.osullivan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:58:59 -0600
Wow, this is a hard task, and is really making me think! I'm going to
go for pure enjoyment factor on this one, so these are not necessarily
the most moving or life changing, but I never fail to enjoy them no
matter how many times I re-read them!
1. The Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
2. The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
and because I feel the need to have one book (or series) not geared to
children, and I can't narrow it down to 3.
4. The Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters.
Can you tell I like reading series? Even as I type this a million
other books I love are running through my head, but I would probably
fill up the list if I list them all!
On 1/2/11, Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wow! this is hard; probably almost impossible, but I would list the
> following --at least today!
> The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald -- moving story, belief in ideals,
> great character development and beautiful writing
> Great Expectations Charles Dickens great plot, Pip is unforgetable and I
> love Joe. I sat for eight hours without moving as I read much of the book
> for the first time.
> Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy great plot and characterization; the character
> Levin changed my life.
>
> Lori C.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 8:20 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Another New Year's Challenge: Bookshare
> Volunteers' "100 Most Enjoyable Books of all Time"
>
>
>> Dear Denise, and Booksharian Friends,
>>
>> Thanks Denise for taking on stats which will be fun to follow.
>>
>> If we limit suggestions to three each, I wonder if we'll even have a
>> hundred books since it doesn't seem we have very many active volunteers
>> posting these days.
>>
>> After a lifetime of reading, it's almost an impossibility for me to limit
>> my nominations to three! All I can think about is the favorites I'm not
>> mentioning.
>>
>> 1. Watership Down, Richard Adams, imaginative, pastoral, promotes the
>> benefits of co operation.
>>
>> 2. Jurassic Park, Michael Chrichton, exciting, gripping, a world of beauty
>>
>> and horror.
>>
>> 3. Proof, Dick Francis, informative about the spirits manufacturing and
>> retailing, suspenseful, a lonely, self-effacing, believable protagonist
>> out of his depth for a good cause. ... and I'm a nondrinker so had it not
>> been for this author's fine writing I wouldn't have expected to even like
>> this book.
>>
>> I beg forgiveness from the hundreds of worthy books and authors who
>> couldn't fit in the above field of three.
>>
>> I hope more of you will post your top threes here with your reasons for
>> choosing them to inspire me to select my next reads from the Bookshare
>> collection.
>>
>> Always with love,
>>
>> Lissi
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Denise Thompson" <deniset@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 5:36 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Another New Year's Challenge: Bookshare
>> Volunteers' "100 Most Enjoyable Books of all Time"
>>
>>
>>>I think it sounds interesting. I'd be willing to keep a spread sheet of
>>>people's most enjoiable book or books. I think we need to limit
>>>submissions from a person, for example, most enjoiable 3 books?
>>> Denise
>>> deniset@xxxxxxx
>>>
>>> At 02:25 PM 1/1/2011, you wrote:
>>>>Ok, so what would a Bookshare Volunteers' "100 Most Enjoyable Books of
>>>>all Time" list look like?
>>>>
>>>>Judy has started the conversation with "The Colonel's Ladies" by Eric
>>>>Hatch. At least 99 more to go - and one scorekeeper to capture all the
>>>>entries. Any volunteers?
>>>>
>>>>Scott Rains
>>>>Benetech Fellow
>>>>
>>>>________________________________________
>>>>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>[bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s.
>>>>[cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>>Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 1:28 PM
>>>>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A New Year's Challenge: De Norske
>>>>Bokklubbene "100 Most Meaningful Books of all Time"
>>>>
>>>>That would be a fascinating list! Hmm, a Bookshare Volunteer list
>>>>of 100 most enjoyable books... how would we go about creating
>>>>such a list? smile.
>>>>
>>>>Judy s., who's current top-10 favorite book is "The Colonel's
>>>>Ladies" by Eric Hatch. It's hard to resist a smartly written
>>>>book about a small-town east coast girls' college teacher who
>>>>decides that what he needs to break out of his boring life is his
>>>>own working horse-drawn canon! It's in the collection at
>>>>http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/36407
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Scott Rains wrote:
>>>> > Judy,
>>>> >
>>>> > I do think that you introduced an important metric -- "enjoyability."
>>>> >
>>>> > I wonder what a Bookshare Volunteer list of
>>>> the "100 100 Most Enjoyble Books of all Time" would look like?
>>>> >
>>>> > Scott Rains
>>>>
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