Thalia’s Comments (group member since Jan 08, 2012)

Thalia’s comments from the The Dusty Bookshelf group.

Oh really? I haven't read "Sense and Sensibility" yet, but I read "Pride and Prejudice" not too long ago and I loved it. "Sense and Sensibility" is on my shelf! I wish you luck trying it again; I hope it ends up being good, hahah.

I can't tell you how glad I am to have found another person who prefers reading one book at a time! Everybody I know can juggle five or something crazy at once, and I feel like I'm cheating on the characters of one book if I'm reading another at the same time. OTL. I need to be completely devoted to one story before I can give my emotions to another, hahah.

(Surprisingly, I understood the poke term! (: )

I've always just found the Arthurian/medieval period so interesting! And then naturally, I'm a big fan of BBC's "Merlin". x) I do wish there were more young adult Arthurian books; the closest I've gotten has been "Avalon High", and that kind of ruined it all when Cabot set up the Arthur character with the Lady of the Lake character. *headdesk*

Anyway! That was me rambling, hahah. I look forward to how you like it! I wish I owned any good Arthurian books on my shelf so I could put them in my challenge! (:

Hahah, I do find being snarky about books I dislike to help getting through them. (; My friends and I just started a tradition of passing around The Magnolia League, because apparently, it was really terrible. So we're now writing snarky comments about it in the margin's to ease getting through the awful. (:

Dalynn, you'll have to let me know how you like "King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table"! I'm a huuuuge Arthurian junkie, and basically every Authurian book to ever exist is on my TBR shelf. I'd love to hear your opinions once you're done. (:

Hi April! I'm Thalia; pleased to meet you! (:

As to your "putting a book down" question, I have this "no book left behind" policy, hahah. I always finish books that I start, because I don't feel like I can give up on a book. I know several books where if I'd quit, I would have missed out on a greeeeat story! (Just takes time to get there, hahah.) The only time I put a book down if it ends up being really sexual, or has lots of foul language, or immorality. I put down Tithe some years ago, and just recently quit reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson because of the language. But that's the only time I put down a book; never for awful writing, hahha.

I mean, I got through Lucky T and The Seven Rays. I officially find myself capable of getting through anything, hahah.

Nice to meet you, DaLynn! (: That'd be quite an accomplishment to read a book a week and homeschool your kids, and take care of twin babies! I wish you the best of luck! (:

Hi Alysia! Pleased to meet you! (: Good luck on your first challenge! We'll help cheer you on! (:

Oh, I do! My older brother really liked Poe, too, and I suppose it rubbed off on me! We had a brief Poe unit in my English class this year, and my teacher called it quits just before we got to The Cask of Amontilado, which is my favorite. :[ But I find his work so interesting! I cannot stop reading ittt.

*embraces the lame-ness* ;D

I will! I know I'm lame to the non-Twi fans, because I actually like the Twilight books, and then I'm lame to the Twi fans because I haven't read Bree Tanner yet. x) I'm really excited for it, though!

I've loved Poe ever since I knew who was; that's been about the majority of my life. (; But I never had all his works before--saw this hardback when Borders was closing for six dollars and pounced all over it. <3

My favorite was when Random gave me The Short, Second Life of Bree Tanner. It's like, less than two hundred pages. XD

Classic is good! (:

Hi Mindy! Pleased to meet you! (:
Hmm, 1995? I was less than a year old! Like...two days old, hahah. Huzzah to showing love to the books we've disregarded for so long! (:

It comes with being young? XD I've had much less time to collect books, let alone let them sit on my shelf for years and years. I just let GR and random.org choose books from my "I own" shelf (except for Tolkein stuff).

But heck, I'm reading like, a thousand pages worth of Poe; that counts for something, right? (;

Oh, I'd better post my list, too! Mine are all actually not that old...but then again, I'm only sixteen, books I had from eight or nine years ago I'd probably really dislike reading now. x)

Completed 3/20

1) The Giver (Lois Lowry)
2) Shiver (Maggie Stiefvater)
3) Delirium (Lauren Oliver)
4) Complete Tales & Poems (Edgar Allan Poe)
5) Choker (Elizabeth Woods)
6) The Short, Second Life of Bree Tanner (Stephanie Meyer)
7) The Merchant of Death (DJ MacHale)
8) Eragon (Christopher Paolini)
9) The Hobbit (JRR Tolkein)
10) The Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkein)
11) The Two Towers (JRR Tolkein)
12) The Return of the King (JRR Tolkein)
13) The With of Blackbird Pond (Elizabeth George Speare)
14) Tris and Izzie (Mette Ivie Harrison)
15) Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
16) The Nine Lives of Chloe King (Liz Braswell)
17) Breaking Dawn (Stephanie Meyer)
18) Found (Margaret Peterson Haddix)
19) I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Ally Carter)
20) Dear John (Nicholas Sparks)

Late response, lolololol.

Jessica, I am! (: It feels like there aren't many of us out here on the inter-webs! Which, I suppose reading your list again, I should have been able to tell. XD You've got one from President Hinckley!

Hi Nights! Pleased to meet you. (:

*waves*
Hello! (:

Ooh, I'll have to post a list tomorrow. (: Hey Jessica, are you LDS? Just wondering since you have a book from the church on your list! (:

Hello there! I'm Thalia and I'm sixteen. (: I live in Oregon, and there's like...probably a thousand books in my room and there's probably like, five hundred of them that I either haven't read yet or haven't read in a WHILE. I thought this would be a fun way to help myself reach my Goodreads challenge goal (which like only eighty. /fail) and...learn not to spend so much money on new books when I've got a ton I can read here. XD

Nice to meet you all. (: