Rebecca's comments (member since Feb 18, 2008)

Rebecca's comments from the Chicks On Lit group.

I also would love to read Water for Elephants. I want to get in on this book this time.

I'm just finishing "The Namsake". It's quite a quick read, and fabulous.

Here are my faves, the books that I can't live without:

The Joy of Cooking
The Moosewood Cookbook Mollie Katzen
How To Be A Domestic Goddess Nigella Lawson
Cook With Jamie Jamie Oliver
Meals Made Easy Real Simple
and
Creme de Colorado

I'm always open to new finds, but these little books are used often.

On the Sedaris front I also love reading Augusten Burroughs' short stories. hilarious.

I'm reading "The Namesake" now. Posh was a quick read, and like a Gossip Girl episode.

My husband and I still get a kick out of Beatrix Potter. Our favorite is Tom Kitten. Holy Lord that is some funny Britishy stuff.

I adore the story, "The Grass Harp" by Truman Capote,any Nick Hornby book will put a smile on my face, "High Fidelity", "About A Boy". I love any Roddy Doyle book. period. Especially the Barrytown Trilogy with "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van". Being a teacher, I love so many children's books...anything by Mo Willems can make me laugh...Dr. Seuss...so many. I don't have time to name them today!

I'm reading "Posh"...nosh.

Marian Keyes! Total Fluff. Sophie Kinsella! Fluffer nutter! Jennifer Weiner! Fluff with a little more stuff...Love love love the fluff...

I'm reading "Queen Bees and Wannabees" so that I'm not completely in the dark when my daughter begins middle school next year. I'm also reading "The Letters of Noel Coward." It's lovely.

I liked "Jane Austen Book Club" and "The Memory Keeper's Daughter."

I have many:

Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle (I also enjoyed the Keira Knightly version)
Emma with Gwyneth Paltrow AND Kate Beckinsdale
Sense and Sensibility with Emma/Kate
Jane Eyre with Toby Stephens
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Devil Wears Prada
Less Than Zero
Dr. Zhivago with Keira Knightly and Omar Sharif/Julie Christie
The Namesake
Little Women with Winona Ryder
Nicholas Nickelby with Ann Hathaway
Out of Africa with Meryl Streep
Bridget Jones Diary
High Fidelity
About A Boy
Fever Pitch with Colin Firth AND Jimmy Fallon
The Commitments
Memoirs of a Geisha
The English Patient
Onegin
There are so many good adaptations out there.
The Joy Luck Club
Sideways
Gone With the Wind

I would recommend ANY book by Nick Hornby (About A Boy, High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, and so on). They're all fantastic and great fun. I laughed throughout them all.

I'm anxiously awaiting two more movies based on books:
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Secret Life of Bees...

ooh I like this group!

My name is Rebecca. I teach kindergarten at a bilingual school in a little town in Colorado. I almost became a high school English teacher until life got in the way. (I majored in Victorian/Edwardian English Lit for 2 years before switching to Human Development) I have an M.A. in Early Childhood Education focusing on special education. I have 2 children, a girl who is 10 and an 8 year old boy. I adore reading and am attempting like a few of you to read at least 3 books a month.

My favorite authors range from Austen, Steinbeck, Dickens and Bronte to Capote, Welty, and chick lit such as Helen Fielding, Marian Keyes and Jennifer Weiner.