Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, and audio books.  You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.

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Last week, I listed the books that made a difference to me that were published in the 60’s.  This week it is the 70’s although some of my favorites were read in later years than they were published.

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In the 70’s I was teaching day school and traveling in the summer out West (70, 71) and to Europe (72) and a few days in the Caribbean (73).  Then we bought a small cottage on a lake and started fixing it…oh, my…long story.  Then, my first two children of three were born in 1975 and 1978.  I kept on reading, but I quit working.  For a couple of years in the 70’s before my children were born, I did get to go to the Flint Public Library and bring home armfuls of books.

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I can’t name all my favorites from the list so you can add yours in the comments.  You can add the ones I have not read, also.

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https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21

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Watership Down
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Richard Adams

I liked the movie better:

The Princess Bride
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William Goldman

The Neverending Story
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Michael Ende

All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful and

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Dee Brown

The Killer Angels
by

Michael Shaara

The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)
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Mary Stewart

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
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Judy Blume

Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1)
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Anne McCaffrey

Future Shock
by

Alvin Toffler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock

My Name Is Asher Lev
by

Chaim Potok

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by

Mildred D. Taylor

I liked this first one the best.

Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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Arthur C. Clarke

Time and Again
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Jack Finney

 The Summer Book
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Tove Jansson

The Clock Winder
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Anne Tyler

If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?
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Erma Bombeck

A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals #1)
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Madeleine L'Engle

A Fine and Pleasant Misery
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Patrick F. McManus

The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
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Robert B. Parker

Riddle-Master (Riddle-Master, #1-3)
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Patricia A. McKillip

Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's #1)
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Spider Robinson

A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #4)
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Dorothy Gilman

Losing Battles
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Eudora Welty

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

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John Steinbeck

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Your turn!

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Another matching day for AIDS Walk Austin

anotherdemocrat

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/24/1806791/-Another-matching-day-for-AIDS-Walk-Austin

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POLL:  Sorry...due to chaos in my life this week, I forgot to give the choice in the poll of more than one book so please vote for one and then list the ones you like in the comments.  (I am using a heating pad to help with a pinched nerve/sciatica and Hubby had cataracts removed from both eyes and all is well with him).