Lisa’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2009)

Lisa’s comments from the Should have read classics group.

We were going to have one of Verne's books for the February children's read. There is a poll at the bottom of the page that has three selections, if you are interested please vote on it! Thanks!

This is the discussion for L.M. Montgomery for the author's challenge.

Niq wrote: "I created a board on Pinterest called Anne of Avonlea and Ingleside, if you want to check it out.

@Brooke: It looks like it's the same one I was looking at. I tried the sample of the Kindle versio..."

I love your board! That took some time and wonderful creativity! It is fun to see automobiles and airplanes from that time period.
On a side note, I enjoy Pinterest, but I had to tone it down since it became a huge time sucker!

Tatum wrote: "That's not actually the good link for L.M. Montgomery even though it is the first that shows up in the author search. The good one is:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

Thanks for that Tatum! Some of the links are hard to figure out!

This is the list of participants:
Mandy
Beth A
Vicky
Zuzana
Ed
Jennifer
Amy J
Everyman
If there is anyone else, please let us know ASAP! Thanks!

Everyman wrote: "Are we allowed to wait to see the questions before deciding whether to participate? I've read most of these books, but many of them books years ago; I would probably remember major plot elements, ..."

We were hoping to send out the questions to individual participants so we can add you to the list.

Pragya wrote: "Ah I missed this one. When's the next one starting?"

Not sure about that one! We will have to see how this one goes! If it is well received, then maybe it will be a yearly thing!

We will have a Jules Verne book for March, so that will cover that one!

The authors challenge has finally been worked out and I'm really excited about this one! There is a list of 8 authors(4 male, 4 female), these will be done in a seasonal format, so 2 authors for a 3 month span. We will have one of the books by each author as a group read during that time period and then anyone participating will need to read one more literary work by that author. The work can be anything, a poem, a play, a short story, not just a novel, although that is fine also. Now for the list:
Winter Authors:Jan-March
L.M. Montgomery (Author)
Jules Verne
Spring Authors:April-June
A.A. Milne
Edith Wharton
Summer Authors:July-September
George Eliot
Emile Zola
Fall Authors:October-December
H.G. Wells
E. Nesbit

I would have to agree with you Michele. I could see where the author was trying to go with the story, but I just didn't care. The idea that our actions have consequences for everyone around us is very true, but my goodness it took awhile for that to come out. The middle chapters were very tedious and hard to read.
All that being said, I picked up The Selfish Giant and I enjoyed it and my kids did also.

Hello and welcome to the group Anindyta and Maggie! I hope that you enjoy it and find some wonderful books to read!

Hello and welcome to all of you! Welcome Jennifer, Kenny, and Marjorie! I hope that you enjoy the group and find some great reads in the mean time!

All I can say is "ugh" also. Stay warm!

Jessica wrote: "Hello, my name is Jessica
I joined this group because I have always loved classics. I have read quite a few, but I need to know of some other good ones. Unfortunately sometimes they become too heav..."

Welcome Jessica! I'm glad that you joined the group and hope that you enjoy it! Hope that you find some fun classics to read!

Hello and welcome Timothy! I'm glad that you joined the group and now that you have brought it up it, it does seem that Goodreads is more female dominated. Am I wrong or do most groups have more females than men? Facebook seems to be a better mix, of course, the ones that talk the most are female!Ha! Don't forget to check out our Russian buddy read for January, it just started on the 14th.

Kathy F wrote: "Currently reading by Margaret Atwood. A classic dystopian scifi story."

I have wanted to read that one for quite awhile. Hope that you like it!

Karen wrote: "I'm reading this quickly on my Kindle (LOVE my Kindle!). Is it just me... or are these characters highly UNlikeable? I can't stand Lord Henry. He's so full of himself and really just a poisonous..."

I could not agree more! I'm about 55% done and I have yet to find any characters that I enjoy. I find it interesting how Dorian starts to become suspicious of his valet. Makes me wonder if this paranoia will develop further.

We are getting closer to the final test days!! We were thinking that we would have the test questions given on January 27th, then you would have until the 30th to email us with your answers. We were wondering who exactly is going to participate in this battle? If you could just let us know in this thread, then we would have an idea how many are participating. Thank you again for participating, this is just fun! I hope that you have read some wonderful new books and had a great time as well!

This is the discussion for Part 3.

This is the discussion for Part 4.