[Oabs] Favorite books

[Macy McClain]

Hey Kaiti,
Harry Potter is a given for me. James Patterson is another awesome author. The Women's Murder Club Series is a series that my mom got me hooked on. Against Medical Advice is a really good one that he co-authored with Hal Friedman. Sorry for the incorrect spellings, if any.  Anything by Joyce Meyer is good. I especially like her Book "The Battlefield Of the Mind".
I have other series that I'm working on, but not sure how to spell the title and author. I have a ton of other books downloaded on my phone. I try not to read leisure stuff during the semester. I'm afraid if I do that it will just distract me.
I have other books, that after I finish reading, I'll post them here.
Enjoy your weekend!
Macy

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> On Oct 4, 2014, at 12:37 AM, Kaiti Shelton via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just to stir up some discussion on here, and because I'm always
> looking for new and interesting reads, I am wondering what your
> favorite books are.  There's a challenge to list them going around on
> facebook, but I thought discussion of the books would be a lot more
> productive and a lot less awkward.  So, I'll start with mine.  I would
> appreciate any suggestions or replies with your favorites too.
> 
> Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen,
> The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Crucible by Arthur
> Miller.  (I always think of these two together since they're both kind
> of similar).
> The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.  One of the best recent books
> I've read.  If John Green would continue to focus on writing stuff
> like this, or stuff for slightly older young adults rather than the
> high school stuff in Paper Towns, he'll continue to be awesome.  I
> liked Paper Towns, and no offense to you if you do more than TFIOS and
> think I'm crazy, but it just didn't have depth to it, and the ending
> was disappointing.
> Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.  Really great if you like
> mystery/suspense/thriller stuff.  The book twists and turns a lot.
> The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.  Very good, so much
> better than the movie.
> If I Stay by Gayle Forman.  Another really recent book that I liked.
> It's a tear-jerker though.
> The Outsiders.  Made me think of stereotypes seriously for the first time.
> Harry Potter, because it's Harry Potter.
> Handle With Care, Sing You Home, My Sister's Keeper, or basically
> anything by Jodi Picoult.  She is really good at taking really
> controversial issues in society or medical ethics, bringing in a
> little courtroom drama, really getting in depth about family and
> marital issues, and being sensitive to multiple characters and their
> points of view at the same time.  Handle With Care is one I just
> finished not too long ago and loved.  I'm about a third of the way in
> to Sing You Home, which has a music therapist as a main character, and
> I'm loving it so far.
> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.  This is another book I started
> reading, but it is a little difficult to get into.  One of my
> housemates says its her favorite book though, but when you're first
> getting into it you have to bear in mind that the story is being told
> from the point of view of a young kid with Autism, so it seems a
> little disjointed until that piece of information helps everything
> make sense.  It's post-9/11 fiction, and the boy's father was killed
> in the World Trade Center.
> Watchmen.  I read this for my English class, and though it was a
> graphic novel I loved it.  Unfortunately it is not available in
> braille; my version of reading it was watching the videos of the
> chapters of the motion comic DVD that somebody uploaded to YouTube.
> If you're bored and want something about superheros, mystery, a tale
> when you don't know if the good guys are actually good, it's pretty
> good.  It's also really deep if you get into the political commentary
> and the allegory about the societal problems, but you guys don't have
> to write a paper on the thing.
> The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks.  Anything by Sparks is good, but
> this one is one of my favorites.
> A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines.  Really good book.  Looks
> at racial discrimination in the south around the 40s I think.  Really
> makes you question what strength really is, what a real man/person is
> like, and oppression.
> 
> I think this is a pretty good summation of my old and new favorite
> books.  Like I said, any additions to this thread would be awesome.
> 
> -- 
> Kaiti Shelton
> University of Dayton 2016.
> Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy
> President, Ohio Association of Blind Students
> Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta Sigma
> 
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