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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Poll: All about reading
1. What kind of books are you in to?
2. What are you currently reading?
3. What is your all time favorite book?
4. Who is your favorite author?
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books?
Re: Poll: All about reading
1. What kind of books are you in to? I like mysteries, children literature, biographies, and classic literature
2. What are you currently reading? The Good German by Joseph Kanon...I am wanting to get the Twilight series to read but every time I go to the library it is checked out. So I got this one the other day and I also picked up the Princess Diaries.
3. What is your all time favorite book? All time hands down favorites is the Harry Potter series
4. Who is your favorite author? J.K. Rowling, Mary Higgins Clark, and Karen Kingsbury
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? I actually prefer books...seems like movies cut out a lot of the details...but I still usually like the movies1. What kind of books are you in to? It really doesn't matter, as long as the story line is interesting
2. What are you currently reading? Nothing...but I'm eyeing the new Nicholas Sparks
3. What is your all time favorite book? Favorite book=A Walk to Remember...Favorite Series=Harry Potter
4. Who is your favorite author? Nicholas Sparks
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? I like the books better, usually I picture the characters/story in my head....then the movie ends up being nothing like it! That doesn't mean I don't like the movies, though
1. What kind of books are you in to? Right now, I'm loving the classics...
2. What are you currently reading? Wuthering Heights
3. What is your all time favorite book? Jane Eyre, Rebecca, and The Thirteenth Tale to name a few...
4. Who is your favorite author? James Patterson, Harlan Coben, and Nicholas Sparks
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? Hmm...I would say books, but I usually like the movies too.
2. What are you currently reading? starting harry potter 6 later today when i get it from a friend (first time HP reader) and i just started Dead Until Dark this morning
3. What is your all time favorite book? the outsiders and most recently the twilight series
4. Who is your favorite author? i haven't been reading much for pleasure until recently (the last 2-3 months) so not really a favorite one. Last time i did a lot of reading i was in middle school
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? yeah..the book is always much better
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2. What are you currently reading? Nothing at the moment...i almost grabbed on to start reading before I left for work.
3. What is your all time favorite book? the outsiders and addicted
4. Who is your favorite author? Zane
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? BOOKS!!!
1. What kind of books are you in to? Spiritual, chick lit, horror, whodunits
2. What are you currently reading? God is Closer Than You Think by John Ortberg (love it) and The Jane Austen Book Club (just ok)
3. What is your all time favorite book? The English Patient
4. Who is your favorite author? Ortberg, Steven King, and Nicholas Sparks
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? Books, but I usually read books after they were made into movies.1. What kind of books are you in to? Mystery, Drama, Romance, and some Horror (I totally read the question wrong the first time.
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2. What are you currently reading? I'm kinda slacking right now. I bought Lean Mean Thirteen of the Stephanie Plum series last July but I'm only halfway through, and sadly, I can't remember the last time I picked it up. (Not that I'm not enjoying it I just don't have time to read anymore!)
3. What is your all time favorite book? The entire Stephanie Plum series...
4. Who is your favorite author? Janet Evanovich, Sandra Brown, and Danielle Steele
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? I like the fact that movies are made from books because it gives me a better visialzation of the characters...but they don't follow them to a T. So I guess I prefer the books.
1. What kind of books are you in to? I like True Crime and Biography books.
2. What are you currently reading? Taking charge of your fertility (I must say, it's not very interesting, I don't know if I'll make it through it)
3. What is your all time favorite book? Murder in the first, Marley and Me
4. Who is your favorite author? I don't read enough books to have a favorite author
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? movies, b/c there's a good chance that I haven't read the book, LOL
1. What kind of books are you in to? I loved Nancy Drew and the Sweet Valley books as a kid, but don't know what kind of books I would enjoy now.
2. What are you currently reading? "The Power of a Praying Wife" by Stormi Omartian.
3. What is your all time favorite book? I don't know... One book that always sticks out in my mind that I've read is "A Touchdown for Bobby". I recently really enjoyed "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert.
4. Who is your favorite author? I don't have one...
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? I don't know. I don't think I've really read a lot of books that are movies. Although, the movie version of "Their Eyes were watching God" really brought it to life for me.
1. What kind of books are you in to? These days, books on dog behavior.
2. What are you currently reading? Scardy Dog: Understanding and Rehabilitating your Reactive Dog. This stuff fascinates me :-)
3. What is your all time favorite book? All time favorite - Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. Read it first in high school and probably 35 times since.
4. Who is your favorite author? Non-dog related - Jodi Picoult. Dog related - Karen Pryor, Patricia McConnell
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? I'd prefer to read the book rather than watch the movie, but don't always have much time to read.
1. What kind of books are you in to? All types of suspense mysteries - things that deal with cops, lawyers, government stuff - who done it type books and chick books.
2. What are you currently reading? Playing for Parma by John Grisham (which is really surprisingly good), and The Arraignment by Steve Martini, and The Media and Body Image. Yes, I read more than one book at a time.
3. What is your all time favorite book? A tie between Beach Music by Pat Conroy and The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
4. Who is your favorite author? I have several - Patricia Cornwell, David Baldacci, Linda Fairstein, Brad Meltzer, James Patterson, Pat Conroy, Nicholas Sparks, and Nicholas Evans.
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? Oh gosh yes. The only movie I ever saw that was based on a book that I actually liked was A Time to Kill.1. What kind of books are you in to? typically fiction, but it just depends
2. What are you currently reading? textbooks about literacy, language arts and inclusion
I am in 'Lit block' in grad school in the Ed. program.
3. What is your all time favorite book? Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. I read it for the first time in 11th grade, it's just beautiful.
4. Who is your favorite author? I don't have just one-depends on what genre or era we're talking about, really
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? Absolutely. For instance, a TV movie was made out of my answer to #3, and it was nowhere near what the book was...even with Halle Berry!
lol, Leelee, I promise you I did not read your answer before posting mine. How funny! I think because I felt I had such a visual for Janie that somehow it couldn't live up. It wasn't bad but I prefer the book
1. What kind of books are you in to? anything with a great plot
2. What are you currently reading?Queen of Babble in the Big City
3. What is your all time favorite book? The Giver, Rebecca and Puddnhead Wilson
4. Who is your favorite author? i love Nicholas Sparks and Mark Twain
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? Books, but i usually like the movies too
1. What kind of books are you in to? Horror/weird/ghosty books, African wildlife type books
2. What are you currently reading? JUST finished Breaking Dawn and going thru Twilight withdrawl. I think I start my Dean Koontz next...I forget the name of it.
3. What is your all time favorite book? Right now, the Twilight series, To Kill a Mockingbird, Suspicion (RL Stine written for adults)
4. Who is your favorite author? Dean Koontz, John Saul
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? Books. They always leave stuff out or change stuff in the movie to make it more "watchable".
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1. What kind of books are you in to? I will read anything that keeps me wanting to read more. I mainly like reading romance and suspense books.
2. What are you currently reading? Beach Music by Pat Conroy.
3. What is your all time favorite book? The Notebook.
4. Who is your favorite author? Nicholas Sparks.
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? I like movies better.1. What kind of books are you in to? Chick lit...some professional development books...
2. What are you currently reading? Tribes by Seth Godin...
3. What is your all time favorite book? Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere
4. Who is your favorite author? Rebecca Wells...she wrote the above mentioned books...
5. Do you prefer books over movies that are made about books? I have found that if I know a book is going to be made into a movie before I have read it I should wait until seeing the movie to read it...I read Ya-Ya before the movie...and I was so disappointed there was no wedding in a sunflower field at the end of the movie...