Should have read classics discussion
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May 25, 2011 04:47PM
I found The Scarlet Pimpernal at Target for $2.50 in the "dollar aisle". So I'll be reading it a bit late, too.
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I just downloaded SP so I'll be joining the late reader's club. If I can break away from Mockingjay, I'll read it this weekend.
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I was it the mood for something short and fun this morning and found exactly what I was looking for. If you like short stories I recommend this one: THE LAWYER, THE GHOST AND THE CURSED CHAIR - Ruth Sims. Such a fun little read. It's a very short story but this humorous ghost story is just what the doctor ordered when the need to have your spirits lifted arrises. It had me smiling from the first page to the last. The main character is just so ridiculous that you, as a reader, can't help but feel some empathy for him even though he represents everything we should find annoying and disagreeable in a person, it's impossible to avoid looking down on this "poor little so full of himself ridiculous rich boy". He is exquisitely painted by the author. The storyline is fast paced with no excessive details and the ending is just perfect in my point of view. It's the perfect little book to bring with you to pass the time in a waiting room at a doctor or dentist's appointment.
I just finished
. I'm really enjoying this series, two more books to go. It's young adult dystopian set in the future.
Kaila wrote: "I just finished . I'm really enjoying this series, two more books to go. It's young adult dystopian set in the future."The first one, Uglies, has been sitting on my to read shelf for a while completely forgotten. I think it's turn is coming.
I just finished Eleven Minutes, and was disappointed, I've enjoyed some of his books before but I just never managed to get into that one, I'm still trying to figure out why... Something to do with the writing style of metaphorical tales that mr Coelho is so good at, not quite fitting with the introspection needed for the main character, a prostitute, to be believable. As if his style of writing creates a distance which didn't allow me, as a reader, to care about the character, as if it always kept me at arm's length?...
I have read Uglies, but have not gotten around to reading the other two, should be on my to read list, enjoyed the first one.
In addition to The Count Of Monte Cristo, I'm reading The Help and Incognito, and I'm enjoying all of them. :)
I just finished Uglies and I also enjoyed it very much. I will be reading the others. It's a light read but it's imaginative, well written and fast paced. Did I mention fun?!
I just finished
and started
today. It is a fun series. I've really enjoyed the books so far.
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
I am reading Moby Dick and Macbeth. Actually I read Macbeth before but it was a comic version.
I'm also reading Ethan Frome. It's such a sad story.
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and I'm now starting
. Plus, I'm still chugging along with The Count of Monte Cristo.
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and
by LM Montgomery. I picked them up yesterday at this little bookstore where LM Montgomery's great granddaughter (I think it was only one great)was working and giving historical accounts of her great grandmother's life. She said that LM Montgomery's favorite book that she ever wrote was The Story Girl so I just had to read it!
Lisa wrote: "I just finished and I'm now starting . Plus, I'm still chugging along with The Count of Monte Cristo."I was disappointed with Dead in the Family and Dead Reckoning was even more of a disappointment. I hope she pulls out all the stops to finish up the series. I've loved it so much!
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and I'm now starting . Plus, I'm still chugging along with The Count of Monte Cristo."I was disapp..."
It has been almost 2 years since I read any Sookie, so I have to remember what is going on, probably should have read the one before this. Is the series going to end soon?
I watched an interview where she said she was going to do 3 more books after Dead in the Family. It just feels to me like she's kind of bored with the series.
Maisie DobbsIt is the story of a woman psychologist/private investigator in the early 1920's in London. It's very interesting and well written.
It's been a full week, first I finished the "UGLIES" series, which I enjoyed. I read it in English but just bought today the first book in French and am sending it to my 14 years old niece, and I told my brother over the phone he should read it too, He'll love it. Then I read The Sickroom and was so disappointed because it's obvious the author does have talent but it felt as though she published a first draft. It needed work, and it could have been so great had she given it the attention it deserved, but as it is, don't bother. Having no talent is one thing, being lazy reworking your first draft when you do have talent is unforgivable in my book.Then I read something I felt obligated to read because I'm linked to the author... I was hoping it would be good, it was horrible, did I say horrible because I meant horrible! (Can I add a few "r" to horrrrrrrible) I'm not even going to name it, I don't think I'm even going to bother with a review, it's not worth my time, It is in my Goodreads profile if you're that curious but believe me it's not worth your time either and I truly wish it was but I'm honest, can't help it...
Now for the good things to come, tonight I'm starting "Animal'z" by Enki Bilal. His works will be classics one day, his drawings are sold in galleries worldwide. It's a reread, it was a gift from my other half two years ago when it came out in 2009, and, knowing my love for bilal's drawings, he just bought me "Julia & Roem" so I'm rereading this one first and then will move on to "Julia & Roem".
I love Bilal's drawings, I love how you can distinguish the pencil strokes... I feel in love with his work with the first instalment of the "Nokopol trilogy" which was in color (even though it shows a particular relation to color, but that's another story). I wasn't surprised a few years later when I found galleries selling some of his drawings. ...but these two last ones, they're in tones of grey (everything from white to black) with a burst of red here and there. I've been flipping through them all week, looking at the drawings, delaying the reading as I use to do as I child when I was served something I really liked, lingering to taste it, making it last, saving the best for last.
I hate that they're called comic books in English, this sounds so derogatory... Bilal's work is art, nothing less. Whether someone likes the stories he writes or not is a matter of taste and to each his own, I respect that, and frankly I find the stories secondary to the art, they "support" the drawing. ...but the drawings... They are amazing, and they are unique, altough they are dark and bold, and daring... And I'm not dark, (LOL I'm the ever smiling, full of good intentions, friend or neighbor you'd like to have! Believe me!) but for having drawn once, for knowing what it's like to hold a pen and to create from nothing, I can't help but love and respect what he creates, and my other half who is a true "BD" (comics) fan and who has perhaps even more culture than I have (LOL I can definitely hold my own) says that Bilal is not about the stories, each drawing being a work of art, I agree... Once you know his work you can spot it anywhere, you can spot his influence so often. But here I am going on and on and I haven't even started to reread Animal'z... Let me read and feast my eyes a little... I'll be back, but expect me to take my time, this is not something I want to rush through! ;)
Animal'z
Kaila wrote: "I watched an interview where she said she was going to do 3 more books after Dead in the Family. It just feels to me like she's kind of bored with the series."Very possible, I haven't read Dead Reckoning yet although I've bought it and it's sitting there on my shelf calling to me, but I want to read Death's Excellent Vacation first and haven't gotten to it yet. I think it might be difficult dealing with the success of the True Blood series, how much of Sookie belongs to her now? We all know that there's a lot more people watching the series than there are people reading the books and a lot of the people actually reading the books saw the series first... It makes me wonder how much of Sookie still belongs to her?... I think once an author sells a series or a character, she has to be ready to let it go, it belongs to a greater entity, it is a choice an author makes and while making this choice they are fully aware that they're limiting where they can take that series or character in the future.
That said, Charlaine Harris has talent seeping out at the seams. Her strength is in painting the characters, she'll take the reader in bubbleheads' land and then she'll write a sentence, just one, that brings an image to mind, and as a reader you'll think "that's it, she's got it" and just like that she's painted a true image of the south, of the people that inhabit it and it seems so simple, so obvious, so true! She's great! If she gets bored with that series, at this particular time I'm willing to follow her wherever shell want to take me next... I don't know how long it is going to take for the True Blood series to fade, but I think eventually the novels are going to become cult novels and from there we'll see... It's not so much the stories she tells as the ways she paints her characters, sometimes a whole world seems to be living within a few written words in her novels...
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Very possible, I haven..."
Must agree with you Vicky. I wondered after the success of the TrueBlood show if Harris would find a new direction to head off into. She also stopped the Harper Connelly series and, I think, the Aurora Teagarden series. I enjoy all of her stuff and would gladly read anything new by her. I really enjoyed the Teagarden and the Lily Bard series.
Interesting. I have really enjoyed the Sookie novels, even the newer ones which didn't get very good reviews, but I haven't found anything else I liked by Charlaine Harries. I found the Harper Connelly series boring. Oh well.I just finished reading the first three of the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger: Soulless, Changeless, and Blameless. Wonderful books, IMO! On payday I'm going to get the fourth, Heartless, and I can't wait!
I'm also reading Atlas Shrugged, which I have been struggling to finish for months. It's a great book, and I love reading it, but I'm a SAHM and it's been difficult for me to find the time and energy to give it the attention it really deserves. I've only got about 300 pages left, so I'm hoping to finish it this week.
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I'm also reading The White Queen but it mainly sits by my bed where I read it when I'm trying to get sleepy! Not that it is boring, by any means.
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Woah, that should be keeping you busy!
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I like Elizabeth Peters, a nice cozy to read.
This was my first of hers, I had a good giggle at how 'Henrietta Stackpole' the main character was! What else by her would you recommend?
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I have read most of the Peabody series and really enjoyed those. She has a ton of books which most are basically mysteries.
Just started Storm Front, first book in The Dresden Files Series. Not even through the first chapter and already enthralled!
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Sounds like an interesting premise for a book. Can't wait to see your review!
I am reading the The Hypnotist, a book I won, it seems to be interesting enough to keep me reading and wondering what may happen next, both good qualities for a book.
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Congrats Amy! It is nice when you win one that keeps you interested!
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Debbie wrote: "Gone With The Wind"I loved Gone with the Wind! I had seen the movie about five times before I read the book and since the two are so similar (same dialogue and everything) I was basically picturing the movie scenes as I was reading. It was an interesting experience. Enjoy!
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I'm also reading The Four Feathers. Lisa, what do you think so far? I had a hard time getting into it, but now that I'm half done I'm really enjoying it.I just finished The Housekeeper and the Professor. It was pretty good.
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I just finished [book:The H..."
Ok, Beth you caught me. Technically, I have not "started" The Four Feathers, but I picked it up from the library yesterday. Ha, I planned on starting it after the Skein book, which I finished this afternoon. My bad on that one! I'm glad that it gets better though!
The Housekeeper and the Professor sounds interesting, almost like the Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore movie.
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I'm currently reading The Forty Rules of Love. I'm having trouble deciding what to read after that. I've got:
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and listening to
. I think that is about all I can handle right now...
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I'm having trouble deciding what to read after that. I've got:
, [bookcover:Wives and Daughters|..."Did you decide which one to read yet?
I routinely have at least 3-4 books going at one time, LOL. I'm in the middle of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but just finished In Cold Blood and Of Mice & Men, so I have a list to start with of some new ones, like:Northanger Abbey
Catch 22
Midnight's Children
Catcher in the Rye
Brave New World
The House of Seven Gables
1984
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