Leora’s Comments (group member since Jan 24, 2013)

Leora’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

Flowers in the Attic?

Sue, those are hard! the only thing can think of for number 1 is My Left Foot, but that doesn't fit.

How about ; The Handicapped Person and the small tokens of personal belief belonging to him.

Harry Potter and the Ordering of the Roast Phoenix

Tanya wrote: "I've just completed two very moving yet vastly different books. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal had an incredibly emotional climax with an abrupt ending. But I felt no attachment to the main ..."

Charlie would be my number one pick for a character I empathized with. Arya in A Song of Ice and Fireis a close second. When Martin picks on Arya, I take it personally!

Karu wrote: "This is not a book, but since you mentioned "Death Note" and anti-heroe: Cowboy Bebop. There's a manga but I didn't read it so I don't know if it's any good."

Death note is actually the only manga I've ever read (other than some Shakespeare). It's pretty good, but obviously it didn't impress me enough to get me reading manga.

Angie wrote: "There is also a great collection of poetry called Poetry Speaks, which I don't see on here. But it comes with CD's that have recordings of the original poets reciting their own poetry. It is amazin..."

The CD idea is a great one. The best tip I ever got for enjoying poetry is that it is written to be heard. I always read it out loud (So it's not the best thing to read in a coffee shop!)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is a good one to start with; it's shorter and easier to read, and the main character is a lot of fun.

To Say Nothing of the Dog

The Velveteen Rabbit Stew

Never Let Me Go Hungry

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

the French Toast Connection

Peter Panini

A Study in Scarlet

I don't know if it would qualify as a classic, but I've been wanting to read The Old Gods Laugh byFrank Yerby

I'm reading Dodger by Terry Pratchett, The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, The Pickwick Papers, by Dickens, and The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. I'm also listening to the audio version of Shannon, by Frank Delaney. I don't usually have so many on the go, but I can't seem to settle on just one right now.

Thanks for the thread and all the great info!

right now I am loving The Neighbors (because it makes me laugh until my belly hurts) The Walking Dead (because the characters are great and you never know who they are going to kill off)and Once Upon a Time (because hey, it's fairy tales!)I am looking forward to the return of Game of Thrones,the series, but not nearly as much as I'm looking forward to the next book.

Hi readers, I'm Leora, from BC, Canada. My main loves are classics and fantasy, but I read almost everything. My secret vice is reading trashy chick-lit in the bath, but it can't be too trashy, because I hate reading sex scenes-- I prefer the old "fade to black" mentality. My favourite book? I'm like Charlie; it's the last one I read. My favourite authors are Austen, Wilde, Wodehouse, and right on top, Terry Pratchett. If I could nominate a book for classic status it would be Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
If I had a superpower, I'd want to be able to jump into books, like Thursday Next.

Little Women