Morning Meanderings

Published on by Sheila (Book Journey)

Good morning everyone.  I am currently sitting in the Orlando Airport waiting for our 7:40 am flight, and yes, today is my birthday.  For fun – I thought I would list some facts about my birthdate.


I was born on a Thursday.


I share my birthday with Alice Walker – the author of The Color Purple

Top songs of 1967

To Sir with Love by Lulu Daydream Believer by Monkees
Windy by Association Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
Somethin’ Stupid by Nancy & Frank Sinatra Groovin’ by Young Rascals
The Letter by Box Tops Light My Fire by Doors
Happy Together by Turtles Hello Goodbye by Beatles

My birth flower is Iris.  My birthstone is Amethyst.


Movies

  • The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke

Pulitzer Prize

Fiction: The Fixer, Bernard Malamud


Popular Books Published in 1967:

The Outsiders by SE Hinton

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Christy by Catherine Marshall

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Snow White by Donald Barthelme

The Clue In The Crossword Cipher by Carolyn Keene

Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O Zelinsky

The Boxcar Children :  Houseboat Mystery #12 by  Gertrude Chandler Warner


This afternoon I will be back home.  I have a review coming up later for The Choice.


What great books were published the year you were born?

83 thoughts on “Morning Meanderings”

  1. I can’t even find any interesting books that were published in 1976! I love Christy though and just found my copy of it that my grandma gave to me as a girl.

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  2. Happy Birthday, Sheila! Have a great flight home. I looked on Goodreads and found several books published in my birth year: (1956)
    Hawaii (Michener); Profiles in Courage (JFK); Peyton Place (Metalious); Diamonds Are Forever (Fleming); The 101 Dalmations (Smith); The Grass Harp and A Tree of Night: And Other Stories (Capote).

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  3. Happy birthday, I wish you all the best! And how lucky are you to share your b-day with the song “Something Stupid”! 🙂

    A popular book published in 1989 (when I was born) is THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie.

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  4. Happy Birthday! I hope you have a safe journey home, and I’m glad you had a good time in our Sunshine State!

    You know, I’ve thought about movies and music that were popular in my birth year (1971), but I’ve never considered the books that were published. Goodreads.com provided a great list for me. Here are a few that were out at that time, ones that I eventually came to love when I was a child:

    **The Black Stallion and the Girl by Walter Farley (loved that whole series as a kid– need to re-read them!)

    **Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

    **The Monster at the End of this Book by Grover (Jon Stone)

    **Come Back, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish (Whom I later met in elementary school when she had an author appearance at our book fair.)

    Laura Hartness
    The Calico Critic

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  5. Happy Birthday! I was also born in 1967 🙂

    Have a safe trip home, we are traveling home tonight too. Hoping the snow stays out of NYC until our flight leaves.

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  6. Happy Birthday, Sheila! Wow, what an interesting collection of facts. And I see that you were born during the sixties…my era (LOL).

    I’ll have to look that up…about books published during the year I was born. Did they have books back then? *smile*

    Have a safe flight!

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  9. Happy birthday! I remember those books and songs. Some famous books from the year I was born are Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary and The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer. Much lesser know but one of my favorites was Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow. I was surprised to learn that Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer was one of the top songs the year I was born. Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole was number 1 the day I was born.

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  17. Oh, happy birthday! February’s a great month to be born. :p

    I’ve read quite a few of those books! I haven’t ever looked up (or if I have, I don’t remember) what books were published the year I was born.

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  23. Happy Birthday and have a great flight!

    Ok so I looked it up and for 71–

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    by Hunter S. Thompson

    The Lorax
    by Dr. Seuss

    The Monster at the End of this Book (Big Little Golden Book)
    by Jon Stone, Michael J. Smollin (Illustrator)

    The Exorcist
    by William Peter Blatty

    Then Again, Maybe I Won’t
    by Judy Blume

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

    Come Back, Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book 2)
    by Peggy Parish

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  24. Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Sheila, Happy Birthday to you!
    Your 3 years younger than me, still a babe! LOL!
    Hope you have a good one.
    Natalie :0)

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  26. Happy Birthday Sheila…hope you have a wonderful day. I’m considerably older than you and also born in February. Here are some “old” bestsellers from the year I was born – 1947!

    The Miracle of the Bells by Russell Janney
    The Moneyman by Thomas B. Costain
    Gentleman’s Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson
    Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts
    The Vixens by Frank Yerby
    The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
    House Divided by Ben Ames Williams
    Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis
    East Side, West Side by Marcia Davenport
    Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger

    Best Wishes and many more,
    Sandee61

    Muzzley56[at]aol[dot]com

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  28. Happy birthday! What fun to look at the list of songs–I turned 7 that year and remember listening to these songs and even owning some of them on 45rpms!

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  30. Happy Birthday Sheila! Hope you have a great day! We are so blessed that you were born and live to share your life with us! Love Mary

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    1. We are usually traveling this time of year rhapsodyinbooks. My 40th was in Florida. I turned 41 in Choltecha Honduras (129 degrees that day – no kidding) and last year I was home, but AL was in Florida at the auctions.

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  32. Happy Birthday Sheila!! I hope your day is filled with things you love! (Although since you started your day in an airport, that could be tricky.)

    Carrie & Blubber were both published in the year I was born (1974). As was Greenwitch – The Dark Is Rising book # 3, which I just discovered a couple of years ago!

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