theduckthief’s Comments (group member since Apr 10, 2008)

theduckthief’s comments from the The Classics group.

Hi Kayla

Welcome to the group!

We've actually done du Maurier's "Rebecca" but I've added all your other suggestions to the list. Thanks!

Wow I've been gone from here for a while. Sorry guys.

Do you feel bad for Anna or has she brought her situation on herself?

Is Levin and more or less awesome on his farm?

How do you like all the main characters so far? Is anyone getting on your nerves yet?

I never understood exactly what happened to Beth. Did she just give up on life?

Alright troops. This is it.

We'll be reading Part 1 from April 1 - April 10. We have a few extra days because of when the beginning of the month starts. Post any and all thoughts here.

What is wrong with Marmee? That's right, discourage your daughter. "He's totally wrong for you Jo."

Alex I had some suggestions from group members to try separating a book into sections for the month we're reading. We'll try it and see how it works.

As for me, I usually read whenever I can. Before bed, on the bus, etc.

Well I've read longer but probably nothing as dense. Section 1 starts on Thursday so you've got a week to read about 120 pages. Good luck everybody!

I'm picking up the book tomorrow from the library and was talking to one of my crazily well-read friends who's read it twice. She says it's a great read!

Mwa ha! Stealing thunder is one of my favourite hobbies.

Pevear and Volokhonsky as translators is the new version.

Awesome thanks Sadie!

I'm reading my copy from a book that includes "Good Wives", a continuation of the Little Women story. But I've found in places that it's actually supposed to be part of "Little Women". Can anyone tell me where their copies end so I know how far to read?

Alex wrote: "I totally agree, Daphne, it's nice to have backup when you tackle something weighty. And I'll be reading it on Kindle too.

Y'know, Beth mentioned that she unfortunately had an old translation, an..."

Crossing her fingers actually but good news, I just found out my library's copy is the newest edition. Yay!

I'm slightly apprehensive about this read, having avoided the Russians for most of my life. They always seemed so heavy, both literally and figuratively. But if I can slog through Hugo's 'les Mis' I can certainly try to tackle 'Anna'.

I'll be stuck with whatever translation my library has so hopefully it won't differ too far from everyone's else's translation.

My heart's all for "Emma" but we've already read one Austen book here and haven't done any Tolstoy. So gear up everyone, we're going to be doing "Anna Kerenina" spread over April and May. It's a big book but you have a week and a half to get hold of a copy.

I'll arrange the discussions by sections per week to see how it works out. Then if all of you can provide feedback on whether you liked it or not, we might keep to that discussion method.

It's interesting to see what Hollywood does to the book. I've only ever seen the adaptations so I was intrigued to see Meg described as plump and Laurie described as having dark skin and eyes.

And I always thought of Mr. March as being involved in the fighting but here he's a pastor.

I think if a big book like Anna Karenina won I'd extend the reading discussion over two months. We read Les Mis about a year ago and I think very few people were able to get through the whole book in one month.

Click here to go to the poll for April's book selection.

Voting ends March 17.

Hi guys,

I can definitely start the polls a week earlier that way everyone will have two weeks to get the book chosen. I'll put up a poll tomorrow for April.

When I first took on the moderator position for this book group I did divide books up into sections. We can do a trial run for April and see what everyone thinks.