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

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

Does anyone have any suggestion for the next group read? I know that The Count goes until August, but if some people want to have shorter reads for each month, I'm game. These books are the ones listed in the challenge, Much Ado About Nothing, Northanger Abbey, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Four Feathers, North and South, Animal Farm, The Wind in the Willows , Black Beauty, A Little Princess, Big Red, The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #1), Frankenstein, plus it was suggested that we could read Catcher in the Rye at some point.

Way to go Katherine!

I must agree with you Andrea, the work ethic in the kids is wonderful! I was impressed with their get up and go!

Welcome to the group Schweet! Most of the classics we discuss, have been around for awhile, although we had a similar discussion in another post, trying to figure out what a classic was! I hope that you enjoy the group!

Hello and welcome to the group, Courtney, Mayee and Kimberly! welcome and I hope that you enjoy the group!

Picked this from the library and started reading it already. I just could not wait! Oh what difference a few decades makes on how you perceive a book! Can't wait to discuss this one!

Welcome to the group Sara! I hope that you have been enjoying Goodreads, it does become rather addicting! Did you have a specialty in English?

Hello and welcome to the group, Cara and P.! Hope that you enjoy it!

$2.50? Nice!

You go girl! LOL!

Katherine wrote: "Although we read The Woman in White what seems like ages ago, I am finally starting The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. I understand there is a new biography out about this man which I am going to see..."

I have that on my TRP, can't wait to see your review!

I was doing some reading on the author and I realized that she was a baroness, and that her family left Hungary in fears of a peasant uprising. They moved to London and she had a wonderful love of England. She was a writer of detective novels and an artist. During World War I, she belonged to The Order of the White Feather,which would hand out white feathers to young men that had abstained from joining up, in order to make them feel guilty and then join up. They got into some trouble when they targeted civil servants and pacifists. She sounded like quite a spitfire!

Holy cow! I had no idea she wrote so many! She made quite a brand for herself!

How many are there?

I finally finished it! What a wonderful book! i might have to check into the next books by this author.

This book got my thinking about the different ideas of heroes. It shows how one groups hero is another groups villian. Always a matter of perspective.

niquae wrote: "I will try to join in then, depending on my schedule (will be starting a new program this fall). Hopefully I will also be able to dissociate myself from the negative feelings associated with this b..."

It is all we can hope for. There are some books that make me shudder to try to reread.

My son brought home a book yesterday about the bubonic plague, which made a huge impact on my kids. We live in a very rural area and have constantly told the kids not to touch dead animals, I do think that the pictures of blackened hands REALLY made an impact! Of course, now they all run around yelling, "I've got the buboes!" and singing Ring Around The Rosie. Got to love kids!

Hello and welcome to the group Sara! Hope that you enjoy it!

Maybe, this is one we could do as a reread later on in the year? I only remember something about climbing a tree and Holden's ideas on religion.