Favourite Authors

[Emeraldmirror]

I know at my job i don't do much... so i've started reading again... My favourite authors are Anne Rice and Kelly Armstrong. My absolute favourite is Kelly Armstrong, i'm going to buy her new book and get it signed at Chapters on June 17th.. i'm excited. I was wondering what everyone else reads.. if they do at all... ?


Ashley 21 w/cf...
I think even since my birthday i keep saying i'm 20... well i'm 21 now..

 

[Emily65Roses]

I personally don't tend to stick to authors (though I have been a fan of Stephen King). I just read whatever looks interesting. Mike's mom is a librarian, and apparently I have male reading tendencies. Generally she notes that women read fiction and men read non-fiction. But I myself love non-fiction. Biographies, anything like that. I'm also reading true stories about kids in the Holocaust, and a book called The Serial Killer Files all about who, what, when, where, why, and how. I gobble up anything that's a biography or fiction story about CF: Alex:The Life of a Child, Breath, Breathing for a Living, Fatal Cure (currently reading that one), Give Me One Wish, Til Death Do Us Part. And there's another Lurlene McDaniel one (she's writes terribly cheesy stuff) called a Time to Die or something of the sort.

 

[buggygurl321]

I love Meg Cabot and Ann Brasheres (sp?)!!! Meg Cabot (aka Jenny Carroll) is the author of the Mediator series, the Princess Diaries series, the 1-800-WHERE-R-U series.....

Ann Brasheres is the author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series!!

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[Beth]

I like Lurlene Mcdaniels. I know that they're cheesy but they are easy to read and they were my first sorces of info on CF after my cousins were diagnosed when I was in the sixth grade. Do you have any recommendations for good CF books? I also like Stephen King and any book with dead bodies flooting in the water. I really get into the whole murder mystery thing.

 

[Emily65Roses]

Oh don't get me wrong, I like Lurlene too. I was just stating that they are cheesy. Haha. As for CF books, any of the stuff I listed, I would suggest. My favorites were Breathing For a Living and Give Me One Wish, as they are both biographies (one is an autobiography) of CF girls who died around 21.

 

[Beth]

I was also wondering if there were any teen sensitive books out there on CF. My sister has CF and she is 14 and takes everything very personal. She will read a book and be up for a week thinking about how the things in the book will effect her. She loves to read and I know that my mom kind of screens the books that she reads so she gets some sleep. She has been reading alot on the topic of death. She says that it's so she can get so ideas on how to handle her own. I wish that she would come on this site and meet some of you. She has a very mild case and was only diagnoses at age 12. She has never been hospitalized for her CF and has to take minimal treatments. I told her about the site but I don't think that she has taken the time to come on and look around.

 

[buggygurl321]

I'm 14 too and actually am trying to write a book for teens about CF (I was diagnosed @ age 9). <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

 

[Beth]

How is that going? I am going to get my sister on to this site if I have to sit on her and read her all the posts<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> She is just to stuborn. I wonder where she got that from!!<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

 

[buggygurl321]

Its coming along okay, i think. it's going to be kind of short (only 2000 words!) and is written pretty much the same way i talk. think it'll be okay?

 

[luke]

not a big book fan to much work...I prefer TV. I do l find Dan Brown to be entertaining though. Actually the only books(outside of work) I have read in the last year are his. The da vinci code was a fun read.

 

[NoDayButToday]

Nods in agreement about Give Me One Wish, by Jacquie Gordon. One of the best books I've ever read, regardless of its CF subject matter. I can't think of specific authors otherwise right now ,but I will look at my shelves later.

 

[IG]

John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell, VC Andrews (later works, not the newer ones), Susan Wiggs, Nora Roberts, Lyndsay Sands, Marie Ferrarella, Jude Deveraux, Judith McNaught, Kathleen Nance, Mary Jo Putney, Jill Barnett, Suzanne Brockmann, Barbara McCauley, J.K. Rowling... off the top of my head. And yes those are some of my favorites. I read. Which is a vast understatement, I practically consume books. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

 

[anonymous]

I love to read! Just finished a great book The Power of One (sounds 'self help' but it isn't, its fiction) by Bryce Courtenay. As for authors, there are so many, Laurie R. King, Tracy Chevalier, Margaret Atwood, Nick Hornby, Alexander McCall Smith, Ann Packer, Ursula Hegi, Isobel Allende, Chris Bojalian, Ann Picoult, Geraldine Brooks, Wallace Stegner, Dan Brown, Pat Barker.... I could go on and on.....

Kim
40 w/cf

 

[gretzky711]

Since this is a thread about books; do you CFers find yourself drawn to a book about people with CF? I have a thread in the adult section and it's on the 2nd or 3rd page. Could you please look at it and post your comments or any information you have.

Thanks,
dave
20-CF

 

[Emeraldmirror]

The Da Vinci Code was a great book... I'm not very religious and i thought it would suck.. my bf's mom made me read it.. but it ended up to be a really good book!


Ashley 21 w/cf