Kellie's comments (member since Aug 06, 2008)

Kellie's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.

Katie...Never heard of this series but it sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.
What is the name of the first book?

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star '*' those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.

My total:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x(1 of the total) *
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Epectations - Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X+
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X +
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy *
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis *
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X+
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X+
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X +
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving X +
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Aleandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson *
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro *
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn X +
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Read-23
To Read-6
Love-7

Hey everyone!! It's been a while....I've just finished The Pillars of the Earth which was fantastic. It has made it to my ALL TIME list...towards the top. (If not on the top)
I'm switching it up now and decided to read a thriller...The Perfect Husband

Just finished The Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy. It was great! I absolutely adored it!
Going to change genres and start Devil in a Blue Dress by Mosely

Debby
Thanks for the info on Scarlet Feather.
I've heard good things about it.

Yes, definitely give Saving Faith another try
I have the paperback copy.
If you want, I can send it to you.
Let me know....

I just finished Saving Faith by David Baldacci. The last 200 pages of this book were fantastic. Made up for the slow pace at the beginning.
I'm going to start a Binchy book. The Scarlet Feather.
It's been a while since I have read one of hers.
The Glass Lake was one of my favorites.
Hope this one is good.

I just finished The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly. I liked it, however, I am not as excited about the main character in this series (Jack McEnvoy) as I am with Harry Bosch. I am surprised at how this book ended. Connelly is very obviously planning a sequel.

I am going to start Downtown by Anne Rivers Siddons today. She is one of my all time favorite authors.

Just finished The Art of Racing in the Rain

Going to start The Scarecrow
I can't wait.
It's been a while since I've read something by one of my favorite authors :)

Recynd wrote: "Hi! I'm new to the group, too. Nice to meetcha.

My very, very favorite feeling is the feeling I get when, after finishing one book, I'm standing in front of my "to read" stack, trying to decid..."

Recynd...I read Lisey's story last month. It was weird. I was determined not to give up on it because it was so strange. I can't say I hated it...but I would definitely say it was NOT one of my favorites. I'm not a big King fan but I read some interesting reviews and decided to give it a try...
Looking at your list....

Water for Elephants and The Girls are great.
Dogs of Babel...good book but strange
The Little Friend is very odd as well...
The others I have not read. I own Saturday and I think the S. Clark was a group read for this group...You can check out the threads.

Mandy wrote: "I read The Book Thief a while back and enjoyed it, great concept.

I'm currently reading Mr Maybe by Jane Green. I've been reading a few heavy books lately and it was time for some chick lit. I..."


The Book Thief is awesome. I read it a couple months ago and loved it. Great concept and interesting story. Highly recommend.

Mandy wrote: "I just finished Water for Elephants and my goodness that August makes me so so mad. I've never felt that way about a character before but it goes to show the author wrote it really well, I can pic..."

Water for Elephants is one of my "classics" I've read it 2x and adored it.
All of Dan Brown's books are good, although he uses the same formula with every one.
My favorite is Deception Point.

Mandy wrote: "I'm reading Double Cross by James Patterson - so far so good.

Sherrie: I got Angels & Demons for Christmas, did you like it? Also in my mountain of books to read sitting on my cupboard is The ..."

The Glass Castle is one of my all time favorites. It is so unbelivable, it can't possibly be true....but it is.....

Hey everyone (peeking behind a curtain)
It's been a while since I have shown my face around here. I peek in every once and a while but I have been silent.
I am reading The Art of Racing in the Rain. Just curious if there is anyone out there that have read it. What did you think? I find myself flying through it. It is so unique and the story is riveting....

Mary wrote: "I finished The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee. I really liked it but, for me, the ending fell a bit short - a three star ending to a four star book.

Now something completely different - Shutte..."

Shutter Island is one of my all time favorites.
Please post your feelings when you are done. I remember wanting to talk to somebody (anybody) about it when I finished!

Finished Down River by John Hart over the weekend. Fantastic read. Could not put the book down.

Starting The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

I just finished Bridge to Terabithia and loved it.
Starting Lisey's Story by King tonight.

Jessica wrote: "Hayes, I have The Human Stain on my bookshelf at home. It's been sitting there for almost a year...I'm also kind of afraid to start it. I would love to know what you think of it!"

I'm going to pipe in here.
Give the book away. It was such a play on words it was despicable. I totally hated it.
Just my "humble" opinion. :)

Finished The Bible Salesman A Novel
by Clyde Edgarton.
Absolutely hated it. Blech. Yuck. Uch.

Started Bridge to Terabithia
Hope I don't cry

Just finished The Appeal
It wasn't Grisham's best but still pretty good.

Going to read Crazy for the Storm A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad next.
This is an ARC I won off bookreporter.com
So far, pretty good.

Finished Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
I adored it! Need to push the 2nd one to the top of my mountain.

Now on to the The Appeal by Grisham