Q. Im 12 years old and when I mean famous recent books that are also movies I mean books like My Sister's Keeper and The Lovely Bones. Im 12 years old so keep that in mind, itd be awesome if you could reccomend books like the ones I just listed.
Uh, I wanted girlish books like the ones I listed (Lovely bones, my sistes keeper, etc.)
Uh, I wanted girlish books like the ones I listed (Lovely bones, my sistes keeper, etc.)
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Weird. I was just looking this up for myself yesterday...I was looking for the same thing.
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/moviebooks.htm
http://www.ocl.net/bookinfo/if/movies.shtml
Those list have almost every book to movie I can remember and lots of girly ones. Especially the second link. But off the top of my head since I'm not sure if they are listed...
Dear John, A Walk to Remember, and Nights in Rodanthe by Nicolas Sparks
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Where The Heart Is by Billie Letts
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Deep End of the Ocean-Jacquelyn Mitchard
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
The Beach by Alex Garland (Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, I have never read the book, but I have seen the movie. This is on my "to-read" list)
Here on Earth by Alex Hoffman
Marley & Me by John Grogan
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Hunger Point by Jillian Medoff
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Christopher Grau
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levin
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. (But don't read that before reading the first book Little Alters Everywhere. It wasn't turned into a movie like the seqel)
A lot of Oprah's book club books have been turned into movies too. A lot of the classics have been made into movies too. Like, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, The Secret Garden and The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, etc...The classics are the best.
Weird. I was just looking this up for myself yesterday...I was looking for the same thing.
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/moviebooks.htm
http://www.ocl.net/bookinfo/if/movies.shtml
Those list have almost every book to movie I can remember and lots of girly ones. Especially the second link. But off the top of my head since I'm not sure if they are listed...
Dear John, A Walk to Remember, and Nights in Rodanthe by Nicolas Sparks
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Where The Heart Is by Billie Letts
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Deep End of the Ocean-Jacquelyn Mitchard
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
The Beach by Alex Garland (Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, I have never read the book, but I have seen the movie. This is on my "to-read" list)
Here on Earth by Alex Hoffman
Marley & Me by John Grogan
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Hunger Point by Jillian Medoff
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Christopher Grau
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levin
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. (But don't read that before reading the first book Little Alters Everywhere. It wasn't turned into a movie like the seqel)
A lot of Oprah's book club books have been turned into movies too. A lot of the classics have been made into movies too. Like, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, The Secret Garden and The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, etc...The classics are the best.
Looking for a GREAT book about self help/motivation?
Nicole
I am 23. I have 1 kid. I had this vision of where I would be at in life, and I am not there or in the process of being there. I need some help, inspiration/motivation on getting there. I had some major events happen in my life that I let throw me off of the track I was on. I at least want to get back to where I was, if not better. I want to be a better me and a better mom first. I lost my dad at 10 yrs old. I lost my Mom, aunt, uncle in a 2 year span most recently. I started experiencing depression, anxiety and panic attacks. The panic led to agoraphobia. I went from my best self supporting job yet to living with my boyfriends mother.......I quit my job, lost my home, wrecked my car and am relying on my boyfriend to pay the notes on my new one, pretty much. I rely on government assistance for food and I could have never dreamed any of this would have ever happened. I want to put the past behind me. I just want to piece my life back together. I feel like I am letting everything pass me by including raising my child. I have let my agoraphobia stop me from doing a lot of things and now that I have little finances, I couldn't do a lot of things if I wanted to. My child will be 5 soon and I am embarrassed to not have a home or a great job. I can't raise her the way i always dreamed of at my boyfriends mothers house. It has to change.
Any GREAT I mean absolutely life changing, thought provoking, self help book title suggestions? I need something motivational for sure. When I feel like giving up or things get hard etc. Open to all book title suggestions. If you have read any great ones, maybe a brief comment about why you personally found it so great?
Thanks!!
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Reading a book won't help. The only thing self-help books do is help the authors to self-prosperity. They're meaningless rubbish.
That said, stop seeing you're life as one huge tragedy. You went right from father dying 13 years ago to more recent relatives dying, as if your daughter didn't even register as a comma on the page of your life. You were in a car wreck? Who hasn't been, but, geesh, lady, you're still alive telling about it. It's a car. Big deal! Did you learn nothing about what's important and what isn't? Junk--whether car, house, or a dust ball turned into a thimble-sized stuffed animal is just that--JUNK! Cool to have our own stuff, but it's just stuff. (I get the car felt big and the house felt bigger, but it's not as big as the good you have in your life.)
Meanwhile, you ignore the really important things you still have despite all that. Wow, a five year old? I bet she lights up your life (if you'd let her.) What was the latest thing she said that made you see life through the eyes of a child? (I bet it's been within the last 48 hours--24, if you listen. 5 year olds are funny, profound, and, of course infuriating at times. lol) And, wow! Your boyfriend had you and your 5 year old daughter move in with him and his mom. AND his mom let you move in too. That's big time wonderful! We came within three weeks of losing our house. I have four brothers, a sister and a father, and we were to the point of deciding whether we could suck up living with my dad (never asked him, but he would have let us...and hated it as much as I would have lol) or living in our car. Oh yeah, and hubby was on chemotherapy at that time, but the car still seemed like a better choice. No siblings offered to put us up, so I really am very, very impressed you have such a loving family around you. (I found a government program that saved our home, until we went from Welfare to Disability.) Stop looking at the bad. I really do get the mentality. You're waiting for the next shoe to drop. It might.
I was raped at the end of college. A couple years later, I met a wonderful guy and he married me, so it wasn't all doom and gloomy. He had just gone through hell and back in a divorce and lost his two kids (home, vehicle, everything but the bills. She was supposed to get the bills too, but they were in his name, so we had to pay them.) So I prayed for a breather--time where nothing bad would happen--and got it, for 2 years and 2 days. Hubby broke his back. That's when I started waiting for more shoes to drop. (He wasn't paralyzed, but he lost his career, and we both had to start from scratch.)
I got tired of waiting, so remembered life was what it is right now. We did slowly crawl up again. We had "adventures" like you're having now. (Okay, we lived in a crappy apartment with no heat for the Christmas week, and the best job either of us could get was I had a part-time job doing surveys on the phone, so life wasn't easy, but an adventure. lol)
I started seeing the good along with the bad, we got back up to middle-class, bought a fixer-upper, and 16 years later that other shoe dropped. A fourth and fifth shoe dropped. (Almost losing the house was the last one. lol) Still, we can laugh. We can grow a garden in the summertime and put up Christmas decoration. (Can barely afford presents but our Christmas stopped being about presents years ago.) Life happened when shoes drop. It can get worse, (what you have is a loving family), but start planning what you want to do and go for it.
As for agoraphobia, you know what you need to do about that. Either do the research to learn how to conquer that, or get the help to conquer it. (You're on SSI, so help is covered.)
Stop waiting for another shoe to drop. Waiting doesn't make it happen faster or slower. It doesn't even guarantee another shoe will drop. But, you have a daughter and a loving boyfriend. Take your strength from them, donate what strength you have to them, and get on with life. You don't need no stinking book to tell you how. You're a veteran. Your father died when you were 10 and you've gone on with your life despite it. You've got strength. Use it and decide what you want next. Then do that as if a shoe might not drop.
Reading a book won't help. The only thing self-help books do is help the authors to self-prosperity. They're meaningless rubbish.
That said, stop seeing you're life as one huge tragedy. You went right from father dying 13 years ago to more recent relatives dying, as if your daughter didn't even register as a comma on the page of your life. You were in a car wreck? Who hasn't been, but, geesh, lady, you're still alive telling about it. It's a car. Big deal! Did you learn nothing about what's important and what isn't? Junk--whether car, house, or a dust ball turned into a thimble-sized stuffed animal is just that--JUNK! Cool to have our own stuff, but it's just stuff. (I get the car felt big and the house felt bigger, but it's not as big as the good you have in your life.)
Meanwhile, you ignore the really important things you still have despite all that. Wow, a five year old? I bet she lights up your life (if you'd let her.) What was the latest thing she said that made you see life through the eyes of a child? (I bet it's been within the last 48 hours--24, if you listen. 5 year olds are funny, profound, and, of course infuriating at times. lol) And, wow! Your boyfriend had you and your 5 year old daughter move in with him and his mom. AND his mom let you move in too. That's big time wonderful! We came within three weeks of losing our house. I have four brothers, a sister and a father, and we were to the point of deciding whether we could suck up living with my dad (never asked him, but he would have let us...and hated it as much as I would have lol) or living in our car. Oh yeah, and hubby was on chemotherapy at that time, but the car still seemed like a better choice. No siblings offered to put us up, so I really am very, very impressed you have such a loving family around you. (I found a government program that saved our home, until we went from Welfare to Disability.) Stop looking at the bad. I really do get the mentality. You're waiting for the next shoe to drop. It might.
I was raped at the end of college. A couple years later, I met a wonderful guy and he married me, so it wasn't all doom and gloomy. He had just gone through hell and back in a divorce and lost his two kids (home, vehicle, everything but the bills. She was supposed to get the bills too, but they were in his name, so we had to pay them.) So I prayed for a breather--time where nothing bad would happen--and got it, for 2 years and 2 days. Hubby broke his back. That's when I started waiting for more shoes to drop. (He wasn't paralyzed, but he lost his career, and we both had to start from scratch.)
I got tired of waiting, so remembered life was what it is right now. We did slowly crawl up again. We had "adventures" like you're having now. (Okay, we lived in a crappy apartment with no heat for the Christmas week, and the best job either of us could get was I had a part-time job doing surveys on the phone, so life wasn't easy, but an adventure. lol)
I started seeing the good along with the bad, we got back up to middle-class, bought a fixer-upper, and 16 years later that other shoe dropped. A fourth and fifth shoe dropped. (Almost losing the house was the last one. lol) Still, we can laugh. We can grow a garden in the summertime and put up Christmas decoration. (Can barely afford presents but our Christmas stopped being about presents years ago.) Life happened when shoes drop. It can get worse, (what you have is a loving family), but start planning what you want to do and go for it.
As for agoraphobia, you know what you need to do about that. Either do the research to learn how to conquer that, or get the help to conquer it. (You're on SSI, so help is covered.)
Stop waiting for another shoe to drop. Waiting doesn't make it happen faster or slower. It doesn't even guarantee another shoe will drop. But, you have a daughter and a loving boyfriend. Take your strength from them, donate what strength you have to them, and get on with life. You don't need no stinking book to tell you how. You're a veteran. Your father died when you were 10 and you've gone on with your life despite it. You've got strength. Use it and decide what you want next. Then do that as if a shoe might not drop.
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