Chapter 29 of Family History - Favorite Books & A Memorable Family Trip

 What are your three favorite books?

Lorraine: I like biographies. Also enjoyed Wormwood Bible.

John: Gotta put the Bible first. I also like biographies.

Marcella: Wuthering Heights and biographies. I also like to read encyclopedias.

Arlie: Sailing alone around the world by Joshua Slocum. Don Quixote by Cervantes. Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

Denny: The Holy Bible. Read a Tyndale House Paraphrase through cover to cover in 1975. Bought a New English Translation in mid ’75 and read it through cover to cover too. It’s the translation the Episcopalians use. Read it through so many times that I wore it out. Sheldon gave me a New International version and I wore it out a number of years ago. Now using an old King Jimmy that Rex Humbard gave to Renee’s grandfather, Howard Steingrube. Now I’m going to get another translation, maybe a Kay Author inductive study Bible this year. Guess I’ve read it through cover to cover maybe 40 to 50 times. As far as other books, Charles Spurgeon had quite a few that I’ve enjoyed. Also just finished a CS Lewis case for Christianity that was very short but very good. I read lots of books, but not very many that are noteworthy.

Joyce: Clan of the Cave Bear, Roots, The Stand. Also loved Carol Burnett’s autobiography, One More Time.

Dale: How you can survive when you’re depressed by Anne Sheffield. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the mysteries of the human mind by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee.  The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy.

Janie: Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Management handbook, Valley of the Dolls.

Jimmy: Until proven guilty by J.A. Jance (I own every book she’s ever written), Intensity by Dean Koontz (if you think Stephen King is warped, read this!)  Wild Justice by Phillip Margolin (excellent)

Sue S: The Bible, Deep Lie by Stuart Woods, Memoirs of a Geisha. My three favorite authors are Mary Higgins Clark, Nelson Demille, and Stuart Woods.

Marlee: I haven’t read anything but trashy romance novels in years and years. The son of the Morning, A knight in Shining Armor, Morning Glory.

Cindy: I have read so many books. I fell in love with reading when I was ten. I started reading Caddie Woodlawn stories. I love the Laura Ingalls Wilder Series…Little House on the Prairie. Three specific books are Gone with the Wind, Call of the Wild, and Heidi. My mother kept all of her childhood books for us to read. From Bambi, Bambi’s children, Five little Peppers, Heidi to Heidi grows up. My favorite romance writer is Johanna Lindsay and I have all of her books.

Bill: The Bible. Life strategies by Phil McGraw, and anything by Patricia Cornwell.

Sue W: Call of the Wild with White Fang by Jack London. The incarnations of Immortality series with Piers Anthony, The Cat who series…murder mystery series by Lillian Jackson Braun.

Mary: God on a Harley by Joan Brady.

Joe: War as I knew it by G.S. Patton, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Canterbury Tales by Chaucer.

 

Do you remember a family trip?

Lorraine: Going to Yellowstone with Arlie and Denny.

Arlie: Yellowstone National Park in 1946.

Joyce:  Our family trips usually amounted to us visiting Dad’s sister, Velna, in Seattle  and his brother, Arthur, in Bremerton. Velna didn’t have a car so she had dad take her to all the thrift stores and we happily tagged along. She lived on a houseboat and I still remember staying the night and listening to the water hitting against the bottom. In 1977 I traveled with Dad and Marcella to Washington DC and up to New Hampshire to visit Dana who was in the coast guard. Got to see Niagara Falls too and the Smithsonian.

Dale: The three of us flew to the east coast to tour Washington DC and visit Diane’s folks in New England. We also went to Boston.

Janie: Dad took us to eastern Washington and the fuel pump went quit going over a mountain. We spent time at a small gas station listening to dad grumble because he got bilked bigtime by a small town mechanic.

Sue S: My family trip to Hawaii and Sea World.

Marlee: We went camping a lot. Daddy built us a homemade tent trailer. We camped at Kopachuck State Park or Belfair State Park. When he was working day shift, he’d take us camping for the week and travel to and from work to our campsite.

Cindy: When I was 14, my folks took me and a girl friend to Expo 74 (World Fair) in Spokane. My favorite was an incredible show called “Across America”. It was a movie shown on the ceiling of one of the stadiums. It was filmed from a plane and you felt like you were crossing the US.

Bill: A family trip when we drove an RV from our home in Georgia to Port Townsend during Christmas 1977 and we visited grandma and grandpa.

Mary: Trips to Bellingham for family picnics at the Walker farm.