Comments on: Momversation: What Books Changed Your Life?

By: sandra

sandra — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:58:33 +0000

I read the Diary of Anne Frank when I was thirteen. Her writing made a huge impact on me, not only in terms of her hopeful, adolescent nature, but her love of books and writing. During the same period I read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain. It combined science, fantasy, and humor in an historical setting. These aspects play in my own writing.

When a teen, The Brother’s Karamazov appealed to my blooming atheism, and Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights to my jaded sense of romance.

All of these coalesced into Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice.

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:38:53 +0000

I HAVE TO read every night! I love it too much to give up, even when I really should sleep, (or clean!) insead. I have made it through a lot of books with as little as 10 minutes a night…
I have to admit that I am looking forward to the kids getting older (right now they are 1 and 3), so that I can read more while waiting for soccer practice to get over (or something like that)

By: Stephanie Thea

Stephanie Thea — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:39:16 +0000

I just finished reading, “Can You Keep a Secret?” Awesome book and a fast read for me in a day and a half, when I found the time. It is by Sophie Kinsella and from what I read on her site, will be making it to the big screen with Kate Hudson! This chick lit was different for me and I enjoyed it and the humor of the author. I don’t remember the last time I read something and laughed so hard and loud that family were coming up to me wondering what was so funny and they wanted to read it next!
It’s about a woman who tells all her secrets during a flight home that she thought was going to crash, to a man she didn’t know. This man is introduced in her office the following monday morning as the CEO of the company she works for! Hilarious and romantic.

By: Daphne

Daphne — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:38:32 +0000

I use to be way into John Irving. Truth is.. I mostly read entertainment bios. They are sort of easier for me right now. If I can only read 2 pages of a novel I can’t get into it.
Biographies in general are good for that. Like Queen Nors bio that has been in my car for over 3 years. I read it when one of my kids falls asleep in the car and I don’t want to move them.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:25:21 +0000

I love “A Prayer for Owen Meaney!”
I loooooved “The Poisonwood Bible” It is such a good story of a little growing up and finding herself… it is also tragic.

By: feener

feener — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:49:36 +0000

ughhh I love love love reading. it is an escape. i MUST read right before i go to sleep, even if it is just a page or 2. i am instilling the love of reading in my girls. reading is fun, educational, thought provoking.

the book that i would say changed my life….FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER. I know rough title, it is about a young woman’s memoir of her struggle through the pol pot regime in cambodia. the fact that it happened in the 70′s while my childhood was going on and i was probably in disney on vacation …it just stunned me to the core. read it now.

By: Missey

Missey — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:56:40 +0000

I wish everyone would read “A Prayer for Owen Meaney” by John Irving.

By: Daphne

Daphne — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:45:31 +0000

good tip! and have a great weekend.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:26:43 +0000

I read over and over, “The Secret Life of Bees.” It didn’t change my life, but it reaffirmed to me how important other women are in a woman’s life. Really really important.

I love that book.