Top 5 (now 10) Books

[ameliagoldfeesh]

So many good books listed...some of which I'd forgotten. How could I 
forget ones such as The Neverending Story?  However I'll always love 
the movie more although one thing I found neat in the edition of TNS
I read was that it was printed in green and red- I opened the book
and said "Awesome!"

My favorites which I'd recommend to anyone are:

Watership Down by Richard Adams
         -I generally reread this book once a year- what's better
than a story of adventure, bravery, survival, homesteading and
cunning? Who can even remember the main characters are rabbits?

Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
		-another story of adventure, survival and resourcefulness by a 
Swiss family named... 

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
		-another one I read every year or so- if only because by the 
end of it I've gotten fuzzy on the beginning :)  Plus who can't love
a book where the main character isn't introduced until about 100
pages 
in?

In the Hands of Providence: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin by Alice
	Rains Trulock, Alan T. Nolan 
		-A biography of a civilian Civil War Union general who was 
instrumental at Gettysburg and reported as dead at Petersburg (a
little prematurely).

The Claw and the Spiderweb by Valerie Reddix
		-A children's book I loved (and lost..er, misplaced). Haven't 
read it for years but it was a tale of two adventurers, a cat and an 
owl against an invasion from across the river.  I seem to recall a 
heroine of the story was Snowdrop, a beautiful snow owl, a distant 
relation of Hedwig perhaps?

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
	-Another history book, yet more evidence I majored in history at 
college.  A wonderful biography of a young Theodore Roosevelt, his
life up to age 28.  Unlike some unfortunate historians McCullough is 
most emphatically never a dry read. He has a true talent for bringing 
history to life.

I'd like to give The Fox and the Hound by Daniel Pratt Mannix an 
honorable mention as being both a wonderful book (on which the Disney 
movie was based) and the only book I can recall that made me cry. A 
much more naturalistic story of a pursuit of a fox by a hound and his 
master over the years.

In addition I'll read anything by Isaac Asimov (his three auto-
biographies are a laugh), Ray Bradbury, James Burke (of The Day the 
Universe Changed and Connections), and Jimmy Carter.  And of course
the Harry Potter books and Dylan's Writings and Lyrics-1962-1986. I'm
   
*still* waiting for the next edition of that one...

A Goldfeesh
     (sorry I rambled on for so long- but books *are* a favorite
topic unsurprisingly)
   
	Oh...nearly forgot Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.  I'll admit I 
love the book for the movie of the same name which starred the 
wonderfully swashbuckling Stewart Granger.  Points to anyone who 
recognizes that name. Yet another semi-obsession I get teased for.

Leaving with very sad Dylan quote...

	 Your sister sees the future
         Like your mama and yourself.
         You've never learned to read or write
         There's no books upon your shelf.
                 One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)