Hello, my name is Catey and I'm new to this group and to Librarything. You may know my mom Stasia (alcottacre). I'm 18 (just turned) and I love reading, just about anything (like my mom). I am homeschooled by my mom.

These are the books I'd like to read:
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Oneprince by Bill Hand
Runaway Mistress by Robyn Carr
Not Exactly Eden by Linda Windsor
Angel of Mercy by Lurlene McDaniel
Angel of Hope by Lurlene McDaniel
Dates From Hell by Kim Harrison
Prince of Kisses by Colleen Shannon
The Whitney Chronicles by Judy Baer
The 8:55 to Baghdad by Andrew Eames
The Lost Duke of Wyndham by Julia Quinn
Mr. Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn
Graceling by Kristen Cashore
Tithe by Holly Black
Die For Me by Karen Rose
Count to Ten by Karen Rose
Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Sea Wolf by Jack London
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Third Heiress by Brenda Dworman Joyce
Meet the Austin's by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Jack Absolute by C. C. Humphreys
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
The Alcheymst by Michael Scott
Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen
Fire Bringer by David Clement-Davies
I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason by Susan Kandel
The Reincarnationist by M. J. Rose
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
A Dance Through Time by Lynn Kurland
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Everworld by K. A. Applegate
Love Letter by Cathleen Schine
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
Victoria and the Rogue by Meg Cabot
Something Dangerous by Penny Vincenzi
Caught in the Middle by Gayle Roper
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
My FBI: by Louis J. Freeh
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Night Swimming by Robin Schwarz
Hindenburg:1937 by Cameron Dokey
Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
A Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
A Year of Disappearances by Susan Hubbard
The Frog Princess by E. D. Baker
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern
Jane and the Unplesantness Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Jane Austen in Scarsdale by Paula Marantz Cohen
The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
If Looks Could Kill by Kate White
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield




Some touchstones are definitely not working.

ETA: to fix my touchstones and to add more books!!

Message edited by its author, Feb 8, 2009, 9:37pm.

Hey, Catey, you have got some great books in your list. Good luck with the challenge. Nice to have you join us.

Thanks, maggie! I am looking forward to a great reading year.

I already have Sepulchre by Kate Mosse but not read yet and forgotten about as well, I've seen Labyrinth in the library too. Thanks for adding it where I can steal the idea :)

Welcome, Catey,

A lot of good books there. I read Jack Absolute as an ARC this year and it was a lot of fun. Pride and Prejudice made my Top Four fiction books. Kim is by my favorite author. A Wrinkle in Time...well, everyone should read that at least once! The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society was popular with almost everyone who read it in the 2008 Group.

You should have a fun year.

Message edited by its author, Dec 29, 2008, 1:39pm.

No problem, I've had it for a while now, just haven't gotten to it yet, so now with this challenge, I have been inspired to read it. I haven't heard of Sepulchre, the name sounds interesting. I'll have to look into it.

Your Most Welcome
Catey

Thank you, Tad. It's great that you have read Jack Absolute. I have read Pride and Prejudice as well as A Wrinkle in Time. Personally, A Wrinkle in Time is my favorite book of all time. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society I have endeavored to read for the 75 Book Challenge as a toast to my mom, who put it in my lap to read a while ago. (just never got around to it)

Catey

Welcome, fantasia - I'm so with you on A Wrinkle in Time. Love it, and its successors very nearly as much. And how organised to have planned your reading so far already!! I am generally surprised by what jumps into my hand next - maybe I should try and think about it a bit more in 2009, especially as my goal is to make a serious attempt at running down the TBR shelves a bit.

Thank you! I look forward to hearing what you are planning to read for 2009.
Yes, A Wrinkle in Time is one of those books that I personally cannot put down. I love all of the books in the series as well.

Catey

Catey
Welcome, welcome.
Your mom is a wonderful person.. Of course, you already know that!

I look forward to reading your posts.

Linda

Yup Indeed, I know that! She's awesome and she started me out reading and now I can't stop! Its a disease of some sort, I know it! Hmm, Lovebooksitis!
No.. Oh Well.. I look forward to reading everyone's posts, problem is that they keep growing..

Catey

Welcome! Do you read as fast as your mom? 8^}

She says I read faster than her. Eh.. Who knows?

lol

Catey

You have a great list! I just read Graceling a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I also liked Wicked Lovely.

Thank You! I cannot wait til the challenge begins! I've wanted to read Wicked Lovely for awhile now, but I kept getting more books that I just had to read so that one got pushed back for awhile. And my mom just got Graceling in so I'm excited about reading it!

Catey

I envy you the chance to be reading Girl of the Limberlost for the first time! I loved it at your age. My son and I are reading (re-reading for me) Freckles which is another one of the series. Lucky, lucky you!

Thanks! I think my mom read it to me when I was little and I know I've seen the old movie about it. I bought my copy of Girl of the Limberlost this summer when I was working in Galveston at a girl scouts camp.
I didn't have time to read it then but now I will make time for it.

a humble welcome to anyone who reads faster than alcottacre......geesh!!! Hope you enjoy My FBI as your Mom and I discussed that one.

Great list, I'll check back and see what you thought of some of these as you finish them.

#19 BDB Lol! I know I will enjoy it, because I enjoy anything Law Enforcement and such.

Thank you! I will continually update it, when I do some more research on some more nonfiction.

Catey

>1 Welcome Catey, you sound as chirpy as your mom, so I am sure we will have some great exchanges in 2009. You have got some meaty books on your list. Good luck.

- TT

#21 She's chirpier then I am! I cannot wait to dive into those meaty books :)
Thank you and good luck as well!

Catey

TT
I see you are ending the year with your quick, witty banter...
"chirpy" I like this word.

Happy New Year to you, to Chirpy and the Chirpy Jr.

Thank you -

from the 'Chirpettes', lol

As I told your mom, let me know if you need any recommendations on law enforcement type non-fiction reads. I'd be happy to point to some good ones.

#25 BDB: Thank you, I will keep this in mind! :)
Now begins the challenge. dun-dun-dah!

Now what am I going to read first...?

welcome Catey

maybe Come A Stranger by Cynthia Voigt, I liked it. Did you read the other Tillerman books?
Anita

#27 FAM: No, actually I haven't, I got Come A Stranger at the library for 50 cents. I didn't even know there was a series, thank you for telling me, I will search for them!

Catey

So far, this year I have read:
The Off Season by Catherine Murdock This was a great book, about a girl who is a dairy farmer becoming the first girl football player in Wisconsin. It was a weird book but good. 4/5

Come A Stranger by Cynthia Voigt I really enjoyed this book. Mina, a black girl from Maryland, wins a scholarship to a dance camp. The next summer she goes back, things are not the same. She's the only black girl there, and her former friends treat her differently. Her body has changed over the course of the summer, she now cannot dance as well as she used to, and she gets sent home by her dance instuctor, then she meets a minister and she finds the courage to open up about herself and her life. 5/5

Book Of A Thousand Days by Shannon Hale This was the best book so far that I have read. (Though I've only read 2 others) When Dashti, a maid and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for 7 years because Saren wishes not to wed a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment. Food runs low and days go from being broiling hot to freezing cold. When Saren's two suitors show up one is welcome, the other not, the girls are confronted with both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows. 5/5

That's all the books I've read so far so I guess I will tell you what I am reading next:

A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson After the Russian Revolution turns her world upside down, Anna, a young countess, has no choice but to flee to England. Without any money, Anna hides her aristocracy and becomes a servant in the household of the esteemed Westerholme family, armed with only her manual on housekeeping and her determination. Anna is nearly overwhelmed by all of the duties that she now has to do, not to mention she grows an intense liking to Rupert, the earl of Westerholme. Now, she feels as though she could tell him all her secrets, but before she can, she must get past the small matter of Rupert's beautiful and nasty fiancee.

I think it sounds really good, I'll let you know how much I like it when I finish it.
Have a good day everyone!

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 4, 2009, 2:27pm.

Great start to the year, Cateydid!

Thank you, I think so too!

You should read Book of a Thousand Days you'll like it.

Catey

Hi Catey
I see you now have two names

Cateydid and Chirpy Jr.
Hang in there because I'm sure this wild and crazy bunch will have more monikers for you before year's end.

Thanks for your nice reviews.A Countess Below Stairs sounds interesting.

I agree with you completely about Book of a Thousand Days, Catey. Shannon Hale is one of my favorites.

Have either you or your mum read Homecoming by Cynthia Voight? I read it when I was about fourteen, and whilst I can remember very little about it now, I know it has popped into my head a lot since then (so much so that I remember the title AND author which is an unheardof accomplishment for me) so it must have made an impression!!

#33 Whisper: I have many nicknames lol like Kaytee, KT, Kaydee, Cateydid, now Chirpy lol. Your welcome I hope I like A Countess Below Stairs. If I like Eva Ibbotson's first one I might buy some more by her.

#34 Leg: It was my first book to read by hers, I got it at the library and that's all they had by her so I might have to check out some bookstores for some more. I really like her as well.

#35: Luna I have not even heard of it until today, so not from me, as for my mom she will answer... eventually. There are so many posts to read, so little time to do it in! I am glad that you remembered so now I can go and look for it. I have read On Fortune's Wheel and now have read Come A Stranger. I like Cynthia Voigt a lot.

Catey

~Edited for poor spelling!~

Message edited by its author, Jan 4, 2009, 2:19pm.

hi Catey

You liked Come A Stranger by Cynthia Voigt (I did too), here the other books about the Tillermans:
Homecoming
Dicey's song
A solitary blue
The runner
Sons from afar
Seventeen against the dealer

I re-read them all in 2008.

Edited for touchstones

Message edited by its author, Jan 4, 2009, 4:22pm.

Thank You So Very Much, Anita!

I will ask for them for my birthday (maybe if mom agrees) my birthday is in 10 days!

Catey

Hi Catey,

Since you like A Wrinkle in Time so much, have you read L'Engle's series about Vicky Austin? The books are Meet the Austins, The Moon by Night, The Young Unicorns, A Ring of Endless Light, and Troubling a Star. They are all good, but Troubling a Star is probably the best, IMO. They are children's literature, but still really good!

Cait, I have only read A Ring of Endless Light but that is it, our library does not have any more in the series. I really enjoyed A Ring of Endless Light, it was great, I also saw the movie.

Catey

>39: I'd completely forgotten A Ring of Endless Light - hadn't realised there were more of that series! Thanks, Cait.

Glad to be of help, FlossieT!

Catey, did you like the movie? It was with Mischa Barton right? I think I vaguely remember watching it :)

Yup, when Mischa was younger, I loved that movie and the A Wrinkle in Time movie. It has been quite some time since I have seen it.. I barely remember it but I remember wanting a pet dolphin lol.

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 4, 2009, 7:02pm.

I think I am going to read Metropolis Found now even though its not on my list so I'll put it on my list later. I mean who could turn down a book about books?
Not me lol!

Catey

#45: If it is any good, I may steal it from you . . .

#46 Mom.. Well if you insist... :P

Catey who chirps alot

I have finished The Detective and Mr. Dickens which used to be on my list up there but mysteriously disappeared. I'm not really sure where it went... But it was a very good mystery, a little wordy in places. And I am now currently reading Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead Heres a little summary about it: Lissa Dragomir is a princess: a mortal vampire with an unbreakable bond to the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from the Strigoi; the fiercest and most dangerous vampires -- the ones who never die. Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend is also her bodyguard. They run away from St. Vladimir's, their school, but are caught and are sent back. But its more dangerous then ever.

I am also going to read Leave Me Alone: I'm Reading by Maureen Corrigan as soon as I am finished with Vampire Academy.

I bought some books today so I am going to read some of them this week like: Fire Bringer and Dr. Franklin's Island.

So there's my week in books, may switch some around who knows.

Catey

Edited because apparently I am slowly losing the ability to spell.

Message edited by its author, Jan 6, 2009, 11:34pm.

Hi Catey
Just a quick note to say I'm following your posts and glad to have you with us.
I note that Madeleine L'Engle is one of your favorite authors. I had the awesome pleasure of meeting her years ago. I have a signed copy of her book Dance in the Desert. She was a friend of a friend and knowing I appreciated her work, my friend introduced me to her. It was a neat experience.

Thank you Linda!

I would've loved the chance to meet her! I bet it was an amazing experience. Personally, meeting any of my favorite authors would be amazing! I have never heard of Dance in the Desert. Did you like it?

Catey

Catey

Are you a late night owl like your mother...and like me?
Regarding Dance in the Desert, it is a small book and if I recall it is the story of a Lion in the desert. I'm now prompted to try to find it somewhere in my mountain of books.

Linda, I guess you could say I am a lark and a night owl. I do hope you find it so you can read it again.

I am going to bed now. So good night Linda!

Have a good night,
Catey

Hi, Catey! You've got a great year of reading ahead - I'll be watching :) I've also got The Innocents Abroad on my short list for the year; I'm really looking forward to it after having read Huck Finn for the first time last year and LOVING it.

I also enjoyed the Tillerman series by Cynthia Voight, especially Dicey's Song; I should revisit the ones I own and consider mooching those I don't.

I've ordered A Girl of the Limberlost from BookMooch thanks to Muddy21's comment - another one for the pile! Do you and your mom use BookMooch? I hedged on it for a while, but it has become a really valuable resource... Once I gave in and agreed to let go of books I'd never read or never read again!

#53 Thanks Laia! We don't use BookMooch (I'm not sure why exactly). And Cynthia Voigt I love her writing, she just has a way of taking me right there (as if I am watching the scenes from above) in her writing, if that makes any sense at all. :) And although I have never read Innocents Abroad, I thought I'd give it a try this year.

Catey

It makes perfect sense; finding authors who can do that is a big part of why we read, I think!

That's good to know, if I am really into a book, the scenes unfold for me like watching a movie. So if I get interrupted at any point, I walk off and wonder what was I watching? lol. This happens quite a bit..

Catey

Today I am starting on Dr. Franklin's Island by Ann Halam
Here's the summary about it:
Semi, Miranda, and Arnie are part of a group of 50 British Young Conservationists on their way to a wildlife conservation station deep in the rain forests of Ecuador. After a terrifying mid-air disaster and subsequent crash, these three are the sole survivors, stranded together on a deserted tropical island. Or so they think. Semi, Miranda, and Arnie stumble into the hands of Dr. Franklin, a mad scientist who’s been waiting for them, eager to use them as specimens for his experiments in genetic engineering.

Message edited by its author, Jan 7, 2009, 7:11pm.

I have finished two books today, Girl In Blue and Dr. Franklin's Island.
Anyway Girl In Blue is about a girl who wishes not to marry an evil man her father wishes her to wed so she dresses up like a boy and runs off to join the army and becomes a soldier in the Civil War. But her secret is found out, and so she then become's one of Pinkerton's detectives. I really like anything by Ann Rinaldi so this of course was going to be a great book!

Catey

>57 Fantasia, Dr Franklin's Island reminds me of The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells. Same theme, different treatment, I suspect. Have you read Wells' book?

- TT

Message edited by its author, Jan 8, 2009, 8:07am.

I notice you have some Eoin Colfer on your list! I've got Half Moon Investigations sitting in my TBR pile for this year too, hah. I'll be back to see what you think of it! I adore the Artemis Fowl series, so I have high hopes for this book...

#59 TT: It was supposed to be loosely based on The Island of Dr. Moreau. Sadly, I have not yet read it but will try and find a copy. I have heard great things about it.

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 8, 2009, 12:23pm.

#60 dk: I adore Eoin Colfer and his Artemis Fowl series too! I just got Time Paradox for Christmas so its up there too, because I haven't had a chance to read it yet. I read the first sentence in Half Moon Investigations and it was hilarious so I think the book will be as good as his Artemis Fowl series.
Their supposed to make a movie about it but it will not compare to the books IMO.

Catey

My partner absolutely loves the Artemis Fowl series, and for some reason I just couldn't get into the first book. Maybe I need to give them another try this year?

My sister is the same way, Laia. I think their amazing and she thinks their not. May I suggest read the first 50 pages or so, and if you like it continue, if you don't, you don't have to read it again. :)

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 8, 2009, 12:39pm.

Sound advice, Catey; duly noted! :)

I really loved Ann Rinaldi when I was about your age, and learnt a lot of american history from them. I think my favourite has to be Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons, closely followed by An Aquaintance with Darkness. Can't remember the others I was able to get hold of, but think there were 3 or 4 others. Those two were my favourites though.

#66 Luna: I have only read Wolf By the Ears and Nine Days A Queen and I love them, I have not read the ones you have listed but our library has them so next time I go I will check them out! :)

Catey

I have finished A Penny For Your Thoughts by Mindy Starns Clark, A Million Dollar Mystery series book #1. I really enjoyed this series. Here a summary about the book!

Callie Webber is looking forward to a week's rest as soon as she drops off one last check for her boss Tom. But when Wendell Smythe says that it's only a loan to Feed the Need and not a gift, Callie finds herself with an hour's paperwork to do. Returning to his office with the proper forms all filled out, she finds Wendell dead. The police quickly rule it a murder and ask Callie to stay in town as a material witness. Then Tom asks Callie to investigate. And how can she turn her boss down?

Staying with the Smythes gives Callie easy access to her prime suspects. But beneath the surface of a seemingly happy family lurks some sinister secrets. Who is leaving threatening messages for Sidra? What drove Sidra and Derek apart? What was going on at the company? And does this have anything to do with the murder?

Meanwhile, Callie is finding her own emotions hard to deal with. Being around this much sadness and death is reminding her too much of the death of her own husband.

A great cozy mystery IMO.

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 9, 2009, 3:24pm.

Boy Howdy you have some thread going here :) Enjoy your lovely books & thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Not quite as big as my mom's lol! I will indeed, enjoy my books and I hope you enjoy your's as well. :)

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 11, 2009, 10:11pm.

Have finished Ella Minnow Peaby Mark Dunn! I really enjoyed this book, I have always liked letters and reading a book of letters is right up my alley. I give this book 5/5. The majority of you, I believe have already read this book, but for those of whom have not, here is the summary about it: Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.

I would recommend this book to everyone I know!

Next up: Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt and Tithe by Holly Black and City of Bones by Cassandra Clare and a few others.

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 14, 2009, 12:19am.

Happy Birthday, Catey! May your future be bright and beautiful!!

Happy Birthday, Catey!

- TT

#71 I'm picking it up from the library today, I just hope it's as good as everyone hear thinks. I'm really excited to read it. Happy Birthday!!!

Thank you everybody for your warm wishes on my birthday!

#74 I think that you'll really enjoy it, I know I did!

Catey

EEK! I just went crazy and spent a whole lot of money on books for my birthday!! It was because my dentist (yes my dentist) gave me a Vanilla Visa for my birthday. (it had 25 dollars on it and I spent most of it)

ETA: The books I am going to get Essays on Manby Alexander Pope and As Dead as It Gets by Cady Kalian and also The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke

Catey (who spends too much time looking at books) *sigh*

Message edited by its author, Jan 15, 2009, 10:50pm.

Happy birthday, Catey! No such thing as too much time devoted to ANYTHING about books - except perhaps if one avoided them :)

Hope your new titles make this year's list so we can hear all about them!

~Kirsten

Thank you very much, Kirsten! and I have just now put the titles of the books I have ordered down so go ahead and take a look if you want. I will list them as soon as I get them (on Monday)

Catey

I finished City of Bones by Cassandra Clare last night so here is my review and my summary about it: Their hidden world is about to be revealed... When 15 year old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder-- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Clary knows she should call the police, but it's hard to explain a murder when the body disappears into thin air and the murderers are invisible to everyone but Clary.
Equally startled by her ability to see them, the murderers explain themselves as Shadowhunters: a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. Within 24 hours, Clary's mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes (humans) like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know...

I really enjoyed this book, (ok maybe enjoyed isn't quite the word I'm looking for) it was suspenseful and intriguing and just plain awesome. It could have been a wee bit shorter and you don't know if her mom wakes up until the second book but all in all I give it 4.5/5

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 16, 2009, 12:30pm.

I have finished an e-book called Secret Vampire by L. J. Smith and heres my review and summary about the book:

Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World.

In Secret Vampire, Poppy thought the summer would last forever. Then she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now Poppy's only hope for survival is James, her friend and secret love. A vampire in the Night World, James can make Poppy immortal. But first they both must risk everything to go against the laws of Night World. This book was quite predictable but the ending was surprising. I give it a 4/5.

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 16, 2009, 12:30pm.

I have bought another book... Called Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 16, 2009, 12:35pm.

Buying books is always good, and should be encouraged as much as possible :)

So true, Luna! I had to basically force myself off my laptop last night so I stop buying books. But like my mom says "you can never have too many books" I concur! ;)

Catey

Hi Catey
So sorry to have missed wishing you well on your birthday. I hope it was a great day for you!

Linda

No problem. I had a wonderful birthday, thank you Linda!

Catey

I am going to list the books I got for my birthday and the ones I bought for myself for my birthday! here they are:
1) The Friendly Jane Austen by Natalie Tyler
2)Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
3)Caught In The Middle by Gayle Roper (have read)
4)Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels by Mindy Starns Clark
5)Summer Shadows by Gayle Roper (have read)
6)Autumn Dreams by Gayle Roper (have read)
7)The Trouble With Tulip by Mindy Starns Clark
8)Blind Dates Can Be Murder by Mindy Starns Clark
9)Elementary, My Dear Watkins by Mindy Starns Clark
10)Caught In The Act by Gayle Roper
11)Caught In a Bind by Gayle Roper
12)The Proposal by Lori Wick

and the ones I bought myself:
Sundays At Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
Essays on Man by Alexander Pope
As Dead As It Gets by Cady Kalian

I had a very nice birthday!!

Catey

Happy Birthday Catey!

Beth Doster

Thanks Bether!

Catey!

Your Welcome Catey!

Beth

I have just finished Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler. Talk about an out-of-body experience. One moment Courtney Stone is a modern-day L.A. career woman lamenting a lost love; the next she is Jane Mansfield, a well-to-do, willowy (though not particularly buxom, unlike her twentieth-century namesake) lady in nineteenth-century England. What could account for this transplant of time and place? Courtney has no opportunity to ruminate over such matters; she must quickly learn to interact with inhabitants of the brave old world in which she finds herself. There's her mother, determined to marry 30-year-old Jane off to handsome Mr. Edgeworth; her artist father, more inclined to his daughter's free-spirited frame of mind; and faithful servant Miss Barnes, who helps her mistress manage everything from chaperones to corsets. (Thank goodness Jane has read Pride and Prejudice more than a dozen times.) It's not long before Jane finds the lines blurred between her two vastly different selves. Like her heroine, debut author Rigler boasts an obsession with the novels of Jane Austen. This frothy take on literary time travel will appeal most to readers well versed in the celebrated author's memorable characters and themes.

I give this book a 4.5/5. I think that the beginning should tell you how she became a different person and it doesn't.

I will be gone for a while because my power cord on my laptop is busted...

Catey

Oh No! You better get a new one. I'm glad you read a new book or an old book and enjoyed it. :)

>92 Confessions sounds like a fun read.

Susan, It really was! I bought today at Hastings and I couldn't put it down, I was as drawn into the characters as she was drawn into the nineteenth-century. :)

Catey

Edited because I am not a very efficient speller.

Message edited by its author, Jan 20, 2009, 1:32am.

I have finished Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt and Meet the Austins by Madeleine L'Engle. Homecoming The First in the Tillerman Series: "IT'S STILL TRUE."
That's the first thing James Tillerman says to his sister Dicey every morning. It's still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillerman children somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It's still true they have to find their way, somehow, to Great-aunt Cilla's house in Bridgeport, which may be their only hope of staying together as a family.

But when they get to Bridgeport, they learn that Great-aunt Cilla has died, and the home they find with her daughter, Eunice, isn't the permanent haven they've been searching for. So their journey continues to its unexpected conclusion -- and some surprising discoveries about their history, and their future. They find their Grandmother's house and work to stay there until she agres they can stay for good. I give this book 5/5. The way that Cynthia Voigt writes in a way that its like I am right there with the characters in this book. I love this book! Thanks to Anita for pushing it at me.

Meet the Austins The first in The Austin Series : an extraordinary family who takes a little girl named Maggy Hamilton under its wing when her father is killed in a plane accident. Adjusting to a new household member is not easy, as the 12-year-old narrator, Vicky, will testify. Maggy is spoiled, "ubiquitous," laughs in a "horrid, screechy way," and appears to be a child of an entirely different species from the thoughtful, intelligent, kind, yet not cloyingly so, Austin kids. Still, Vicky and her other siblings (Rob, Suzy, and John) grit their collective teeth and struggle to understand her, which becomes easier and easier as the loving family seems to rub off on the newly orphaned Maggy.
The Austins are beyond question a charming family, but their path is by no means rock-free: Vicky sneaks off to a friend's house and severely injures herself in a bike accident, they all get the measles, John is beat up after his guest sermon in church, and they almost lose little Rob. Despite ordinary family setbacks, there's no use pretending this is a run-of-the-mill family. When Vicky is sick, her older brother, John, comes into her room and soothes her with a discussion of the solar system, our atomic composition, and the relativity of size. Family dinner-table talk includes the ethics of meat eating, and a chat with Grandfather ends up with a discussion of whether Einstein believed in God. As in all of L'Engle's novels, she asks the big questions: What is the meaning of life, and how does death fit into that? Are there different kinds of intelligence? I give this book a 4.5/5. I just wish it was not told in first person. I would have like to know what Maggy felt about the Austin's. Or hear how John felt when Vicky got hurt. But still it is a great book.

Am currently reading The Alchemyst by Michael Scott: Twin 15-year-old siblings Sophie and Josh Newman take summer jobs in San Francisco across the street from one another: she at a coffee shop, he at a bookstore owned by Nick and Perry Fleming. In the vey first chapter, armed goons garbed in black with "dead-looking skin and... marble eyes" (actually Golems) storm the bookshop, take Perry hostage and swipe a rare Book (but not before Josh snatches its two most important pages). The stolen volume is the Codex, an ancient text of magical wisdom. Nick Fleming is really Nicholas Flamel, the 14th-century alchemist who could turn base metal into gold, and make a potion that ensures immortality. Sophie and Josh learn that they are mentioned in the Codex's prophecies: "The two that are one will come either to save or to destroy the world." Mayhem ensues, the author has a wide knowledge of world mythology to stage a battle between the Dark Elders and their hired gun—Dr. John Dee—against the forces of good, led by Flamel and the twins (Sophie's powers are "awakened" by the goddess Hekate, who'd been living in an elaborate treehouse north of San Francisco). Not only do they need the Codex back to stop Dee and company, but the immortality potion must be brewed afresh every month. Time is running out, literally, for the Flamels.
Review to come when I finish the book

Catey :)

Message edited by its author, Jan 20, 2009, 12:45pm.

I'm really glad you liked Homecoming. Reading your review took me right back to my teenage years!!

I am glad for that, Luna! I really did enjoy this book. It took me several days to read it.. Other books jumped in my way so it was put on hold until last night when I finished it.

Catey

I enjoyed your review on Homecoming and am glad you liked it. Now on to the other Tillerman books ;-)
Anita

Thank you, Anita! Yup, on to the Tillerman series but first *sigh* I must finish The Alchemyst and Stardust. Because they are due back soon, and I cannot renew them. Then The Tillerman series will be in my hands!

Catey

What is Confessions about? It sounds interesting.

Just read above Bether.

Now my review for The Alchemyst: I really enjoyed this book. It had great characters, an awesome plot and it was easy to follow. Although the saga continues in another book so you never know if one of the main characters gets saved or not so that stinks especially since the library only has The Alchemyst and not the second book in the series The Magician so I will not figure out what happens till they get it. What a downer. Anyways, I give this book 5 big stars!! I recommend this book to anybody who likes magic and young adult books as well, and anyone else too!!

Catey

Edited to correct touchstone.

Message edited by its author, Jan 20, 2009, 11:24pm.

HI Catey

I'll be sure to read The Alchemyst this year. I discovered YA books in 2008 and really enjoy this genre.

Take care,
Linda

By the way, your mom said you helped her design her new LT home page...It is awesome!

Ah yes before I forget, I also read Diary of a Wimpy Kid today, completely off my TBR island, but still with that title I couldn't pass it up at the library. Here is the summary on the back of the book: Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley, who finds himslef thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner and... already shaving.
This book was laugh-out-loud funny and I am making my mom read it. It goes so fast you don't want it to end, but inevitably it does. I give this book a 4.5/5. It was a juvenile fiction book, that I have wanted to read since I saw it on amazon recommendations thingy. So now I did and I am glad I did, it brightened my day considerably.

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 20, 2009, 11:36pm.

sounds like a good book Catey. I'm reading more YA fiction this year.

Cool! I think you'd like it. Well I kinda helped her a little, I just sorta told her where to go and such, because I had put some stuff on mine that she saw and so I gave her the website to go to :) .. Her page is awesome.

Catey

#103 That's good, I am constantly reading YA, I cannot seem to sway to much else. Maybe historical fiction/romance and of course my inspirational books but thats about it. I cannot seem to read Non-Fiction books at all unless their about Jane Austen.

Catey

I also read Diary of a Wimpy kid now I'm going to try and read Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict I think its what its called.

I am... DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!!!!!

You're The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe!

by C.S. Lewis
You were just looking for some decent clothes when everything changed
quite dramatically. For the better or for the worse, it is still hard to tell. Now it
seems like winter will never end and you feel cursed. Soon there will be an epic
struggle between two forces in your life and you are very concerned about a betrayal
that could turn the balance. If this makes it sound like you're re-enacting Christian
theological events, that may or may not be coincidence. When in doubt, put your trust
in zoo animals.

Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Ok Ok I know I changed it but this one sounded better!

Message edited by its author, Jan 21, 2009, 12:21pm.

I am going to try and read as many as these books as possible well some this year, some the next and for years to come but as many as possible, this year.
Sorry about the way it looks I tried to fix them but got too tired and I am not even going to attempt any touchstones.

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Hamlet William Shakespeare
1984 George Orwell
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien
Night Elie Wiesel
Ulysses James Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
Macbeth William Shakespeare
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
I, Robot Isaac Asimov
Animal Farm George Orwell
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Watership Down Richard Adams
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis
Dune Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
The Stand Stephen King
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
The Giver Lois Lowry
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
The Red Tent Anita Diamant
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Roots Alex Haley
The Princess Bride William Goldman
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The Iliad Homer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
Paradise Lost John Milton
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
The Trial Franz Kafka
The Inferno Dante Alighieri
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Prufrock and Other Observations T.S. Eliot
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger
The Lord of the Flies William Golding
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
Neuromancer William Gibson
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
The World According to Garp John Irving
Exodus Leon Uris
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
A Theory of Justice John Rawls
Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden
King Lear William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert Heinlein
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino
Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
The Hours Michael Cunningham
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare
Shogun James Clavell
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X & Alex Haley
A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn
Death in Venice and Other Stories Thomas Mann
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne
Ada Vladimir Nabokov
Godel, Escher, Bach Douglas Hofstadter
Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut
Middlemarch George Elliot
The Federalist Papers James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut
The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien
The Way Things Work David Macauly
Bleak House Charles Dickens
Confessions St. Augustine of Hippo
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
My Name is Asher Lev Chaim Potok
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O'Brien
Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs
Foundation Isaac Asimov
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
Dubliners James Joyce
Run with the Horsemen Ferrol Sams
Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey
The Awakening Kate Chopin
White Noise Don DeLillo
Anarchy, State and Utopia Robert Nozick
Freakonomics Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
No Exit Jean-Paul Sartre
On the Road Jack Kerouac
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. LeGuin
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More Roald Dahl
Persuasion Jane Austen
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
Winnie the Pooh A.A. Milne
A Light in the Attic Shel Silverstein
Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot
Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard
The Chosen Chaim Potok
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. LeGuin
Charlotte's Web E.B. White
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino
Traveling Mercies Anne Lamott
John Adams David McCullough
Now We are Six A.A. Milne
Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience William Blake
Starship Troopers Robert Heinlein
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
A Ring of Endless Light Madeleine L'Engle
Beowulf ?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman Richard Feynman
The Whisper of the River Ferrol Sams
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Wicked Gregory Maguire
Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson
Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais
How the Grinch Stole Christmas Dr. Seuss
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
The Silver Chair C.S. Lewis
The Winds of War Herman Wouk
A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett
Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut
Grendel John Gardner
Our Town Thornton Wilder
The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley
VALIS Philip K. Dick
Beach Music Pat Conroy
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
The Neverending Story Michael Ende
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
Compassion Fatigue Susan Moeller
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Life of Pi Yann Martel
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein
The Last Battle C.S. Lewis
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
"Master Harold"...and the Boys Athol Fugard
At Dawn We Slept Gordon W. Prange
Babar the King Jean De Brunhoff
Cathedral Raymond Carver
Creating Minds Howard Gardner
Deadline Chris Crutcher
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler
Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Random House Dictionary of the American Language Jess Stein (ed.)
The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton
The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman Abbie Hoffman
The Bloody Sun Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie
The Loom of Language Frederick Bodmer
What a Beautiful Sunday Jorge Semprun
Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Gaskell
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling
Possession A.S. Byatt
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Rascal Sterling North
Ravelstein Saul Bellow
Reagan: A Life in Letters Ronald Reagan
Red Ted Dekker
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Surprised by Joy C.S. Lewis
The Black Knight Iris Murdoch
The Confusion Neal Stephenson
The Foxfire Book Eliot Wigginton (ed.)
The Godfather Mario Puzo
The Great American Novel Philip Roth
The History of Love Nicole Krauss
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer
The Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton
The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
The Urantia Book Urantia Foundation
V Thomas Pynchon
A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge
A Separate Peace John Knowles
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner
Big Fish Daniel Wallace
Black Ted Dekker
Burr Gore Vidal
Chuang Tsu Gia-Fu Feng
Cousin Bette Honore de Balzac
Endgame Samuel Beckett
Fathers and Crows William T. Vollman
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges
Group Portrait with Lady Heinrich Boll
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
Love's Executioner Irvin D. Yalo
Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian
Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
Six Easy Pieces Richard Feynman
Summer of My German Soldier Bette Greene
The Chairs Ilya Ilf & Evgeni Petrov
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Really Are Alan Watts
The Cider House Rules John Irving
The Crucible Arthur Miller
The Four Loves C.S. Lewis
The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick
The Odyssey Homer
The Secret History Donna Tartt
The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff
The Valley of Adventure Enid Blyton
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom
When We Were Very Young A.A. Milne
Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
An American Life Ronald Reagan
Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver
Armor John Steakley
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Confessions of a Backup Dancer Anonymous
Cunt Inga Muscio
Dicey's Song Cynthia Voigt
Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke
Gilead Marilynne Robinson
Having Our Say Sarah & A. Elizabeth Delany
Henry V William Shakespeare
Illuminatus! Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea
Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell
It's a Magical World Bill Watterson
Kim Rudyard Kipling
King Matt the First Janusz Korczak
Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw
Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
My Land, My People the Dalai Lama
My Life in Christ St. John of Kronstadt
Narcissus and Goldmund Hermann Hesse
Nightwood Djuna Barnes
One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Personal History Katharine Graham
Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy
Purple America Rick Moody
Testament of Youth Vera Brittain
The Blessing of Pan Lord Dunsany
The Joyous Season Patrick Dennis
The Leopard Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil
The Missing Piece Shel Silverstein
The Origin of Species Charles Darwin
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Stranger Beside Me Ann Rule
Tree In the Trail Holling Clancy Holling
White Ted Dekker
Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
A History of English Speaking Peoples Winston Churchill
A House Like a Lotus Madeleine L'Engle
A Widow for One Year John Irving
America (the Book) Jon Stewart
Auntie Mame Patrick Dennis
Beloved Toni Morrison
Earth David Brin
Empire Falls Richard Russo
Fargo, Rock City Chuck Klosterman
I Ching ?
It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
Non-Violent Resistance: Satyagraha Mohandas Gandhi
Perfect Natasha Friend
Quicksilver Neal Stephenson
Rabbit Run John Updike
Sherlock Holmes and the Hounds of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
Sorrows and Rejoicings Athol Fugard
The Body Artist Don DeLillo
The Circle of Dusk II Ralf Isau
The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie
The Iron Horse Henry B. Comstock
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O Shel Silverstein
The Sunflower Simon Wiesenthal
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
The Wind Cannot Read Richard Mason
The Winter of Our Discontent John Steinbeck
Veil George C. Chesbro
Walden Henry David Thoreau
Words Under the Words Naomi Shihab Nye
A Short History of a Small Place T.R. Pearson
A View from Nowhere Thomas Nagel
Absolute Brightness James Lecesne
Antigone Sophocles
Blindness Jose Saramago
Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
Ishmael Daniel Quinn
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
Nights in Aruba Andrew Holleran
Petersburg Andrei Bely
Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs
Sparrow Mary Doria Russell
Tales of the Night Peter Hoeg
The Circle of Dusk I Ralf Isau
The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio
The Enchanted Broccoli Forest Mollie Katzen
The Hotel New Hampshire John Irving
The Plot Against America Philip Roth
The Reawakening Primo Levi
The Runaway Jury John Grisham
The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
The Search for Delicious Natalie Babbitt
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis
The Wounded Land Stephen R. Donaldson
Tom Jones Henry Fielding
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures Howard R. Garis
A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry
Barrayar Lois McMaster Bujold
Basic Facts About the United Nations UN Department of Public Information
Blackberry Subway Jam Robert Munsch & Michael Martchenko
Cheaper by the Dozen Frank & Ernestine Gilbreth
Et Nox Facta Est Victor Hugo
Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke
Light in August William Faulkner
Locked in the Cabinet Robert Reich
Lying Awake Mark Salzman
Marjorie Morningstar Herman Wouk
Memory of Fire: Genesis Eduardo Galeano
My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult
Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rimbaud Graham Robb
Rx Tracy Lynn
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
Silverlock John Myers Myers
Steppenwolfe Hermann Hesse
Story of My Life Helen Keller
The Conquest of America Tzvetan Todorov
The Eyes of the Dragon Stephen King
The Gameplayers of Zan M. A. Foster
The Patron Saint of Liars Ann Patchett
The Railway Children E. Nesbit
The Republic Plato
The Spell of the Yukon Robert Service
The Stars of My Destination Alfred Bester
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
Till We Have Faces C.S. Lewis
Time Enough for Love Robert Heinlein
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Pablo Neruda
Will You Please be Quiet, Please? Raymond Carver
A Clash of Kings George R.R. Martin
Agammemnon Aeschulys
And I Don't Want to Live This Life Deborah Spungen
Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins
Captain Horatio Hornblower Cecil Scott Forester
Choke Chuck Palahniuk
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant
Dracula Bram Stoker
Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess
Envy Sandra Brown
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Tom Robbins
Flashman George MacDonald Fraser
Last Call Tim Powers
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Nicholas and Alexandra Robert K. Massie
People of the Lie M. Scott Peck
Player of Games Iain M. Banks
Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver
Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert
Six Wars at a Time Howard Shaff & Audrey Karl Shaff
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
The Color of Summer Reinaldo Arenas
The Color Purple Alice Walker
The First Circle Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Ghost Writer John Harwood
The Killer Angels Michael Shaara
The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare
The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Kiss for Little Bear Else Holmelund Minarik
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare
A Storm of Swords George R.R. Martin
Anthem Ayn Rand
Around the World in Days Jules Verne
Belinda Anne Rice
Cash Johnny Cash
Contact Carl Sagan
Easter, William Butler Yeats
Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco
Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers
Getting to Yes Roger Fisher & Bill Ury
Herzog Saul Bellow
Island Aldous Huxley
Le Morte D'Arthur Thomas Mallory
Leading Minds Howard Gardner
Lenin's Tomb David Remnick
Mathematical Methods for Physicists George B. Arfken
Peace Like a River Leif Enger
Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit
Sybil Flora Rheta Schreiber
The God Delusion Richard Dawkins
The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis
The Pearl John Steinbeck
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy Emmuska
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan
Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
White Fang Jack London
Yertle the Turtle Dr. Seuss
All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini
Cold Mountain Charles Frasier
Colossus of Maroussi Henry Miller
Coryat's Crudities Thomas Coryat
Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami
Dhalgren Samuel Delaney
Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card
Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Fox in Sox Dr. Seuss
Getting the Love You Want, Guide for Couples Harvelle Hendrix
Green Shadows, White Whale Ray Bradbury
Kiss of the Spider Woman Manuel Puig
Lend Me Your Ears - Great Speeches In History William Saffire (ed.)
Life and Death in Shanghai Nien Cheng
Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder Alan Dundes
Mrs. Bridge Evan S. Connell
QB VII Leon Uris
The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter & Rennard Strickland
The Human Stain Philip Roth
The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle
The Mirror in the Mirror Michael Ende
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
The Runner Cynthia Voigt
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman
The Third Man Graham Greene
Untouched by Human Hands Robert Sheckley
Villa Incognito Tom Robbins
Watchers Dean Koontz
Weapons of Chess Bruce Pandolfini
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
Caucasia Danzy Senna
Clarence Darrow for the Defense Irving Stone
Diary Chuck Palahniuk
Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg
Graceland Chris Abani
Harold and Maude Colin Higgins
High Fidelity Nick Hornby
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
In the Lake of the Woods Tim O'Brien
Life Among the Savages Shirley Jackson
Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oedipus Rex Sophocles
Read to Me Bernice Cullinan
Sandokan Emilio Salgari
Sophie's Choice William Styron
Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner
Strong Poison Dorothy L. Sayers
The Dream of Reason Anthony Gottlieb
The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse
The Holy Sinner Thomas Mann
The Lords of Discipline Pat Conroy
The Power of Myth Joseph Campbell
The Ugly American William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher
What is Called Thinking Martin Heidegger
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde
At Play in the Fields Peter Matthiessen
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo Oscar Zeta Acosta
Blow Up and Other Stories Julio Cortazar
City Clifford Simak
Exploring Social Psychology David G. Myers
Five Children and It E. Nesbit
High Tide in Tuscon Barbara Kingsolver
Human Scale Development Manfred Max-Neef
Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. LeGuin
Loosely Based Storey Clayton
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
Naked David Sedaris
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein
Raising Demons Shirley Jackson
Season of the Witch James Leo Herlihy
Stories Katherine Mansfield
Tevye's Daughters Sholom Aleichem
The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton
The Art of Electronics Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill
The Art of War Sun Tzu
The Circle of Dusk III Ralf Isau
The Demons Heimito von Doderer
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
The Petrified Forest Robert E. Sherwood
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana
Vamps and Tramps Camille Paglia
Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf
All Too Human George Stephanopoulos
American Gods Neil Gaiman
Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison
Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo
Black Hawk, Grey Falcon Rebecca West
City of Glass Paul Auster
Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler
Democracy and Distrust John Hart Ely
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
Gift from the Sea Anne Morrow Lindbergh
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling
House of Stairs William Sleator
I, Claudius Robert Graves
Jailbird Kurt Vonnegut
Kipling Stories and Poems Rudyard Kipling
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle
Nine Stories J.D. Salinger
Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley
Sexing the Body Anne Fausto-Sterling
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
Steamboats and Modern Steam Launches Bill Durham
Sunk Without Trace Robert Birley
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
The Apology Plato
The Circle of Dusk IV Ralf Isau
The Club Dumas Artruro Perez-Reverte
The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Richard Feynman
The Gashleycrumb Tinies Edward Gorey
The Good Soldier Schweik Jaroslav Hasek
The Word for World is a Forest Ursula K. LeGuin
This Perfect Day Ira Levin
William's Doll Charlotte Zolotow
Witching Times John W. De Forest
Year of the Griffen Diana Wynne Jones
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Judith Viorst
Anton Chekhov's Short Stories Anton Chekhov
Chaos and Order Stephen R. Donaldson
Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel
Corrupting Dr. Nice John Kessel
Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
Experiments in Mass Communications Carl I. Hovland
Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz
First Sorrow Franz Kafka
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
Herland Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
Honeymoon in Purdah Alison Wearing
Hope Was Here Joan Bauer
In the Penal Colony Franz Kafka
Job: A Comedy of Justice Robert Heinlein
Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis
Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe
Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Dr. Seuss
Prince Caspian C.S. Lewis
Stoneware and Porcelain Daniel Rhodes
The nd Parallel John Dos Passos
The Beekeeper's Apprentice Laurie R. King
The Book of Joe Jonathan Tropper
The Color of Magic Terry Pratchett
The Complaint; or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality Edward Young
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
The Law Frederic Bastiat
The New Encyclopaedia H.C. O'Neill (ed.)
The Shining Stephen King
The System of the World Neal Stephenson
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bronte
The Westing Game Ellen Raskin
Trainspotting Irvine Welsh
A Bargain for Frances Russell Hoban
A Welsh Classical Dictionary Peter C. Bartrum
Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer
Anne of Windy Poplars L.M. Montgomery
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons Bill Watterson
Chaos James Gleick
Collected Poems William Dunbar
Diplomacy Henry Kissinger
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Tom Robbins
Ham on Rye Charles Bukowski
Heiress of Water Sandra Rodriguez Barron
House of Mist Maria Louisa Bombal
Journey by Moonlight Antal Szerb
Knowing God J.I. Packer
Molloy Samuel Beckett
Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen
Revelations of Divine Love Julian of Norwich
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot Al Franken
Schindler's List Thomas Keneally
Set This House in Order Matt Ruff
Speaking with the Angel Nick Hornby
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Color of Water James McBride
The Continental Op Dashiell Hammett
The Dead Zone Stephen King
The Death of Virgil Hermann Broch
The Dispossessed Ursula K. LeGuin
The Gate of Ivrel C.J. Cherryh
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Michael Chabon
The Postman David Brin
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. DuBois
The Taste of Courage Desmond Flower & James Reeves
Voyage to Temptation Joe Wachter
Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks
A Grief Observed C.S. Lewis
A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermentov
Amazing Grace Jonathan Kozol
Are You Somebody? Nuala O'Faolain
Birdsong Sebastien Faulks
Boy Roald Dahl
Cavedweller Dorothy Allison
Cultural Politics of Everyday Life John Shotter
Death is a Lonely Business Ray Bradbury
Fences August Wilson
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott
Flood Andrew Vachss
Foundation and Empire Isaac Asimov
Gideon's Trumpet Anthony Lewis
Han Feizi Han Feizi
Illusions Richard Bach
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Julian Gore Vidal
Just and Unjust Wars Michael Walzer
Lincoln Gore Vidal
Little Scarlet Walter Mosley
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
Love Medicine Louise Erdrich
Love Warps the Mind a Little John Dufresne
Metamorphoses Ovid
My Century Gunter Grass
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
Screwjack Hunter S. Thompson
Somnambulism Charles Brockden Brown
Stillwell and the American Experience in China Barbara Tuchman
The Big Friendly Giant Roald Dahl
The Constitution of the United States of America Constitutional Convention of et al.
The Crying of Lot Thomas Pynchon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
The Forever War Joe Haldeman
The Monster at the End of this Book Jon Stone
The Orestia Aeschylus
The Plague Albert Camus
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
The Saffron Kitchen Yasmin Crowther
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe
The Tempest William Shakespeare
Camp Concentration Thomas M. Disch
Crunch Time Mariah Fredericks
Essays Michel de Montaigne
Farnham's Freehold Robert Heinlein
Ginger Man J.P. Donleavy
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
Hell Has No Limits Jose Donovo
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain
Othello William Shakespeare
Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac
Railroads of Nevada David F. Myrick
Revolt of the Cockroach People Oscar Zeta Acosta
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Stephen King
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor
Shadow Puppets Orson Scott Card
Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
Swann's Way Marcel Proust
The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov
The Closing of the American Mind Alan Bloom
The Curse of Lono Hunter S. Thompson
The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams
The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
The Horse of Troy J.J. Benitez
The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan
The Lorax Dr. Seuss
The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington
The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolano
The Sneetches and Other Stories Dr. Seuss
The Spectator Bird Wallace Stegner
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors Roddy Doyle
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll
To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip Jose Farmer
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen
Web of the Romulans M.S. Murdock
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love Raymond Carver
Writing Down the Bones Natalie Goldberg
Yukon Ho! Bill Watterson
Beggars in Spain Nancy Kress
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame Charles Bukowski
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Ingri & Edgar D'Aulaire
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson
Lucid Dreaming Stephen Laberge
Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Matilda Roald Dahl
Momo Michael Ende
Mysterious Island Jules Verne
Nemesis Isaac Asimov
Palm of the Hand Stories Yusanari Kawabata
Reading Lolita in Teheran Azar Nafisi
Sacred Games Vikram Chandra
Summer's Lease John Mortimer
Swan Song Robert McCammon
The Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe
The Country Bunny DuBose Heyward
The Crystal Cave Mary Stewart
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson
The Elements of Style William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White
The Future and its Enemies Virigina Postrel
The Ice Storm Rick Moody
The Patchwork Girl of Oz L. Frank Baum
The Pioneers James Fenimore Cooper
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater
The Royal Game and Other Stories Stefan Zweig
The Sacred Fount Henry James
This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald
Top Ten Uses of an Unworn Prom Dress Tina Ferraro
Whirlwind James Clavell
Word Freak Stefan Fatsis
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain
A Long Way From Chicago Richard Peck
Airport Planning Charles Froesch & Walther Prokosch
Borderliners Peter Hoeg
Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote
Collected Poems Maya Angelou
Dangerous Liaisons Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens
East of Eden John Steinbeck
Excession Iain M. Banks
Finnegan's Wake James Joyce
Flags of Our Fathers James Bradley
Griffin and Sabine Nick Bantock
Happenstance Carol Shields
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling
In Search of Excellence Tom Peters
Izzy, Willy-Nilly Cynthia Voigt
Kentucky Straight Chris Offutt
Naked in Death J.D. Robb
Native Son Richard Wright
One Child Torey Hayden
Picasso at the Lapin Agile Steve Martin
Singing Under the Shower Jorge Maronna & Daniel Samper
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ?
Superfudge Judy Blume
The Duchess of Malfi John Webster
The Forest House Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy
The Hairy Ape Eugene O'Neill
The Horse and His Boy C.S. Lewis
The House of Blue Leaves John Guare
The Long Twilight Keith Laumer
The Long Walk Stephen King
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain
The Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks
The Ticket that Exploded William S. Burroughs
Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Philip Gourevitch
When Bad Things Happen to Good People Harold Kushner
Wisdom Energy Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow
All the President's Men Bob Woodward & Carl Berstein
American Rhapsody Joe Eszterhas
Amerika Franz Kafka
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville
Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault
Earthman's Burden Poul Anderson
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami
Just Listen Sarah Dessen
Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat
One for the Money Janet Evanovich
Phaedo Plato
Planet of the Blind Stephen Kuusisto
Redwall Brian Jacques
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory Albert Einstein
Savannah Blues Mary Kay Andrews
Scoop Evelyn Waugh
Secrets of the Great Pyramid Peter Tompkins
Terms of Endearment Larry McMurtry
The Allegory of Love C.S. Lewis
The Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination Jacob Bronowski
The Shipping News Annie Proulx
The Songcatcher Sheryl McCrumb
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Yukio Mishima
The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough
The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Unholy Spirits Gary North
Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut
What God Wants to Know Bruce Larson
Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver
Zen Buddhism D.T. Suzuki
American Pastoral Philip Roth
An Unfortunate Woman Richard Brautigan
Battle Cry of Freedom James McPherson
Beware the Fish! Gordon Korman
Death Be Not Proud John Gunther
Emily of New Moon L.M. Montgomery
Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman
Escape from Colditz P.R. Reid
Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth
Hiroshima John Hersey
Lake of Dead Languages Carol Goodman
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Betty MacDonald
Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut
Rules and Order (vol. of Law, Legislation, and Liberty) Friedrich August von Hayek
Savannah Breeze Mary Kay Andrews
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Ann Brashares
The Background Saki
The Castle Franz Kafka
The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper
The Good Rain Timothy Egan
The Last Starfighter Alan Dean Foster
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise Peter Abelard & Betty Radice
The Memory Book Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas
The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux
The Reader Bernard Schlink
The Revenge of the Baby-Sat Bill Watterson
The Strange Career of Jim Crow C. Vann Woodward
The Stranger Albert Camus
The Theory and Practice of Hell Eugen Kogon
Vecindarios Excentricos Rosaria Ferre
When Rabbit Howls Truddi Chase
Hours Greg Iles
Anne of the Island L.M. Montgomery
Beezus and Ramona Beverly Cleary
Billy Sunday and Other Poems Carl Sandburg
Blue Like Jazz Donald Miller
Descent into Hell Charles Williams
Drawing of the Dark Tim Powers
Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like Jay Williams
Founding Brothers Joseph J. Ellis
Historia Regum Britanniae Geoffrey of Monmouth
Holes Louis Sachar
Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo
Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lysistrata Aristophanes
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Virginia Lee Burton
Mountain Interval Robert Frost
Nostromo Joseph Conrad
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth
Scientific Progress Goes Boink Bill Watterson
Self Reliance and other Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson
Synchronicity Carl Jung
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
The Business of Fancydancing Sherman Alexie
The Drama of the Gifted Child Alice Miller
The Irish Princess Amy J. Fetzer
The Obnoxious Jerks Stephen Mane
The Reciprocating Aircraft Engine Robert Dunston
The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
The View From Saturday E.L. Konigsburg
Tom Brown's School Days Thomas Hughes
Totem and Taboo Sigmund Freud
What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Glenn Doman & David Melton
When Hell Was in Session Jeremiah Denton
, Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
As You Like It William Shakespeare
Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut
Bringing Down the House Ben Mezrich
Daughter of Time Josephine Tey
Delta of Venus Anais Nin
Dream of the Red Chamber Tsao Hsueh Chin
East of the Sun and West of the Moon Theodore & Kermit Roosevelt
Ghost Girl Torey Hayden
Godric Frederick Buechner
Half Magic Edward Eager
Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling
How to Win at Chess I.A. Horowitz
I Sing the Body Electric! Ray Bradbury
Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
Looking Backward Edward Bellamy
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenedies
Neverwhere Neil Gaiman
Pop. Jim Thompson
San Manuel Bueno, Martir Miguel de Unamuno
Tales of Pirx the Pilot Stanislaw Lem
Technology of Wine Making Maynard Amerine
The City of Gold and Lead John Christopher
The Collector John Fowles
The Covenant James Michener
The Death and Life of Superman Roger Stern
The Doomsday Book Connie Willis
The German Ideology Karl Marx
The Luncheon of the Boating Party Susan Vreeland
The Outline of History H.G. Wells
The Sleeping Lord David Jones
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
Valley of Decision Marcia Wallace
White Oleander Janet Fitch
A Primer of Freudian Psychology Calvin Hall
A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume
Beneath the Wheel Hermann Hesse
Cards of Identity Nigel Dennis
Cherry Mary Karr
Civility Stephen L. Carter
Conspiranoia Devon Jackson
Eragon Christopher Paolini
French Toast for Breakfast Mary Anne Cohen
Hatcher's Notebook Julian Hatcher
Lamb Christopher Moore
Like a Hole in the Head Jen Banbury
Little Town on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder
Medea Euripides
She's Not There Jennifer Boylan
Skinny Legs and All Tom Robbins
Stone Junction Jim Dodge
The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe
The End of Racism Dinesh D'Souza
The Freedom Writers Diary The Freedom Writers The Mouse That Roared Leonard Wibberly
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
The Road Less Traveled M. Scott Peck
The Road to Mecca Athol Fugard
The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
The Truly Disadvantaged William Julius Wilson
The Valley of Horses Jean M. Auel
The Village of Stepanchikovo Fyodor Dostoyevsky Tough Guys Don't Dance Norman Mailer
Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller
Watt Samuel Beckett
Ain't Got Time to Bleed Jesse Ventura
Alive Piers Paul Read
Chronicles: Volume One Bob Dylan
Curtain Agatha Christie
Expecting Adam Martha Beck
Fear in Fenway Crabbe Evers
Final Harvest Emily Dickinson
Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Homer Price Robert McCloskey
Irish Pedigrees John O'Hart
Lords and Ladies Terry Pratchett
Machinery's Handbook Erik Oberg (ed.)
Man and His Symbols Carl Jung
Pieces of a Song Diane di Prima
Second Foundation Isaac Asimov
Something Wicked this Way Comes Ray Bradbury
The Beach Alex Garland
The Brethren Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong
The Chamber John Grisham
The Crimson Petal and the White Michel Faber
The Fixer Bernard Malamud
The Hot Zone Richard Preston
The Power of One Bryce Courtenay
The Razor's Edge Somerset Maughm
The Zombie Survival Guide Max Brooks
Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson

(found this list on that Blue Pyramid website)

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 21, 2009, 12:37pm.

Ah, that last bit answers my question. Next question: Why?

Wowch! That's a scary list.... good luck!!

That is a very scary list and long too! I don't think I could read all of those.

#109 Susan. To answer your question, these are the books I would like to read in my lifetime. But quite a few of them I would not like to.

#110&111 Rachael and Bether. Yes, perhaps it is a wee bit scary but I do not plan to read all of them, just the ones I have actually heard of. But I couldn't edit this so I had to use all of them or take forever to write them out.

Catey

Okay -- lifetime is way different than this year. Thanks :)

I've been thinking as I read about folks TBRs. One of my biggest joys in second hand stores and libraries is discovering a gem all by myself hidden away on some shelf. For me, the whole TBR thing just doesn't really work. Mais, c'est moi.

Thanks for your description of The Alchemyst. I got excited for a minute, because I thought I already had it in audiobook format, but in fact, I have The Alchemist. I will be on the look out for The Alchemyst though, because it sounds really good!

Susan, That's really cool. To have book in your hand that no one else knows about. I bet it feels exhilarating. I do kinda have that same thing going on with my friends, they don't know about half the books I read lol. I do love second hand stores, we have a Hastings here, its a regularly price place but they have a whole lot of used books which is at least five dollars cheaper than the real thing. So I love Hastings, their coffee however is not that great lol.

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 21, 2009, 12:55pm.

#114 Yeah, it was really cool! Sorry you do not have it. There are so many Alchemists and Alchemysts running around, it is no surprise (I would get confused as well) that you'd get confuzzled.

Catey

They have two Hastings in Amarillo, and I must confess I do rummage for those 'used' tags :)

Yeah and me and my mom flock to the clearance aisle, everytime we go and now they have those books in the front for 99 cents. Which is awesome!

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 21, 2009, 1:59pm.

How was Alchemyst fantasia655? It also sounds interesting.

Beth, just call me Catey!!! It was good but it kinda just ended which sucked, until the next book but our library does not have it.

Catey

That's sad Catey

Currently reading: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt and The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff and The Secret Garden with A Little Princess.

and

up next: East of Eden and Animal Farm and A Catcher in the Rye.

Catey

Message edited by its author, Jan 23, 2009, 12:51pm.

>122 I re-read those Burnett books quite often. It's almost time again :)

Susan, That's great. Have you read Little Lord Fauntleroy by her?

You know, I don't think I have... just seen the movie. I'll watch for it in the Penguin classics shelves. Thx.

What an impressive list! I can't wait to read your reviews.

#125 Susan, your welcome. and I think you'll like it, I reread several years ago, its a sweet little book.

and

#126 MrsBond, Thank you! I hear you read alot of young adult books, I have starred your thread already and alot of your books that you have read are on my tbr Island.

I have completed Dicey's Song and I really liked it, I think Homecoming is a little better but still a very nice read.

At the beginning of summer, the Tillerman's mom had abandoned them and then later been traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing. So Dicey Tillerman, her brothers James and Sammy, and her sister Maybeth had spent the summer on their own on a long and difficult journey to find a home with the grandmother they'd never met before. Now that they'd moved in with Gram, their troubles, Dicey hoped, would be over. Dicey had watched over the younger kids and brought them through - now she wanted to be just a little selfish, to refinish the old sailboat she'd found in Gram's barn, to earn a little spending money, to adjust to Gram and to her new life in the Chesapeake Bay country that had once been her momma's childhood home. Yet even with the buliding of new ties ans a new life, old problems and sorrows did not go away by themselves. None of the Tillermans and especially not Dicey, could forget about Momma. Nor could Dicey easily relinquish her need to watch and worry over the three younger children. Though she felt a growing bond with feisty, yet seemingly eccentric Gram, who talked of reaching out... and of letting go, it took a crisis to help Dicey understand what such things might mean.

I give this book 4.5/5.

This is a wonderful series!

Catey

P.S. just so everyone knows my new laptop cord came in today!
next onto East of Eden.

Ok, I know I should have read East of Eden but when my new book came in, I just had to read it!! Although I did read the first two chapters of East of Eden. And let me say its very good so far.
Ok, onto my new book: Sundays at Tiffany's

Jane Margaux is a lonely little girl. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him. Michael can't stay forever, though. On Jane's ninth birthday he leaves, promising her that she'll forget him soon. He was there to help her until she was old enough to manage on her own, and now there are other children who need his help. Years later, in her thirties, Jane is just as alone as she was as a child. And despite her success as a playwright, she is even more trapped by her overbearing mother. Then she meets a man, a handsome, comforting, funny man. He's perfect-- He's Michael, back again but this time everyone can see him. But Michael asks himself, why am I back? This has never happened to him before.

I give this books 5 big, huge stars!! I really, really loved this book! I laughed, I cried and I rejoiced with them. I would recommend this book to people who, for one like James Patterson and for two, likes a litte romance in their lives. And those who remember what it was like to be a kid.

Catey

Okay, Catey, this oneSundays at Tiffany's goes on my wish list! Very nicely written review.

Okay, Catey, this oneSundays at Tiffany's goes on my wish list! Very nicely written review.

#130 Roni: Thanks! I am really glad I bought this book for my birthday! I got it yesterday and started it last night, and I couldn't put it down and I stayed up longer than I meant to to get it read, I really enjoyed it and I think when you read it, you will too.

Catey

I enjoyed your thread fantasia655 and the great review of The Alchemyst. I read it last year and enjoyed it very much. I borrowed it from my son, so I bought him the sequel which i plan to read this year--and soon because the third one is supposed to come out this year, also. My son says the second one is even better than the first. I hope your library gets it soon! Can you try ILL?

YOu have a lot of great books on that list you plan to read. I'll be looking forward to your reviews on the ones you get to.

#133 Miss Carolyn: Thank you, I don't know about ILL but when mom and I go over to the library this week, I be sure to ask, I didn't even think of that so thanks so much for reminding me of that.

So far the books on that list of mine that I have from the library are: East of Eden and Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I think thats it so far. But I will try to get more throughout the years since their is over 1000 books there, that like 100 books in ten years. (Give or take some books) So next year I will pick out my 100 books to read on my list. :)

Catey

Catey

When you read East of Eden let me know how you like it. I want to read a Steinbeck for my Classic category this year and I've never read that one. I read Of Mice and Men last year and loved it, but Cannery row is still my favorite. Grapes of Wrath is probably his best, but that one is kind of depressing. It's beautifully written, though.

135: Miss Carolyn, I sure will, my best friend suggested I read this one since I didn't like Grapes of Wrath.

Catey

>135 I haven't read Grapes of Wrath but I absolutely loved East of Eden! I liked it even more than Of Mice and Men, it just felt more like a proper novel, it's much more intricate and it sucks you right in. Steinbeck also considered it his greatest novel and said (wildly paraphrasing here) something to the effect that everything else he's ever written has been just a practice for this.

#137 g-u-g

Wow! I didn't know Steinbeck considered it his greatest. I'm sort of on a not too urgent quest to read all of Steinbeck books since I moved back to California. I guess East of Eden will have to go into my classics category--especially if Catey likes it!

Has your mom read it, Catey?

# 136

BTW I lived 25 years in Savannah, GA, where I was always referred to as "Miss Carolyn" by my friends' children. To see that brought tears of remembrance to my eyes! :-)

Carolyn

Message edited by its author, Jan 26, 2009, 12:37pm.

>138 MusicMom - ok now I had to check to see if my memory wasn't deceiving me! Wiki says: Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, East of Eden brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their interwoven stories. (etc etc goes on describing the plot) According to his last wife Elaine, he considered this to be a requiem for himself—his greatest novel ever.Steinbeck stated about East of Eden: "It has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft or profession in all these years." He further claimed: "I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this."

Phew. I'm not getting old yet :)

Message edited by its author, Jan 26, 2009, 12:42pm.

138 Miss Carolyn: How sweet! Well, I live in Texas and we do that as well, kinda, my friends and I have been friends for over 13 years so we don't call each other's parents 'miss' and 'mr' anymore but we used to.

As far as I know my mom has not read any Steinbeck, but I could have been misinformed. I believe she told me she hadn't, but I don't really remember.

Catey

Catey

Careful with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, its not an easy read and I know many people who just couldn't or wouldn't finish it. I myself read it in three installments and this is undoubtedly the toughest book I have read so far (but maybe I haven't read enough yet). Another interesting detail I noticed is that most people slip into denial phase that they didn't finish the book because they didn't like it! That maybe true with some people, but most people make it an ego issue. Having said all this, one of friends recently finished the book in one week and he is a slow reader! Needless to say he liked it.

All this useless personal trivia because this book has been a point of discussion with many friends and therefore has lots of associated memories.

#141 Piyush, thanks for the information. Although in all seriousness, I don't think I'll read it anyway. I think I will stick with books I will enjoy instead of reading something hard. But thank you for going out of your way to tell me that it's not a easy read. I have not yet started it so that maybe a good thing. :)

Catey

>141 & ff: I'm surprised. I found it an eminently readable—and enjoyable—book.

#143

Enjoyable???
Are we talking about the same book? The book I am talking about is written by Robert M. Pirsig and is in the form of a philosophical discussion, adjectives generally used for the book are more in line of thought provoking, reflection oriented, etc. and it really makes you think!

>144: Yes, we are. I find thought-provoking an enjoyable trait in a book. You stated that people "liked" the book...if people can "like" it, I can "enjoy" it...there's nothing inherently contradictory between thought-provoking and enjoyment.

I read this book in a weekend in 1975 and have since reread it twice. However, I wasn't wild about the sequel, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals; it didn't hold my attention the same way.

I think the book is widely-read—certainly widely-read for a philosophy book—simply because it is a pleasure to read, unlike trying to wade through "weightier" tomes on the subject. Most people, if interested in the subject, are able to relate to discussions of embracing both the rational and the romantic side of their natures.

I stand by my comments.

TadaD

I think we are on the same side then, the adjectives used in this instance made me doubt if we are indeed talking about the same book. And yes, my thoughts on the book are very similar to yours, so we dont really have anything to disagree on.

I also have Lila: An Inquiry into Morals sitting on mys shelf for quite some time now, but it still doesn't feature in my this year's TBR list, didn't get very favourable feedback and you just reinforced my opinion.

I have finished The Secret Garden. I really liked this book!
The unlikely heroine is this book is Mary Lennox, who arrives sullen and sickly at her uncle's lonely manor on the English moors. But when a friendly robin leads Mary to a mysterious abandoned garden, her life begins to change. She gains a friend named Dickon who can talk to the robin and other various animals Then she discovers another secret -- an invalid cousin hidden away in the depths of the manor. Colin is self-centered and ornery as Mary, but despite their clashing temperaments, a friendship starts to flower. As they work together to rescue the overgrown secret garden, these two irascible children find themselves transformed. My favourite character in this book is Dickon, he's so nice and interesting as he talks to the animals and knows exactly what they mean. This I give this here book, 4.5/5 stars.

Catey

Book Number I have finished The Secret Garden. I really liked this book!
The unlikely heroine in this book is Mary Lennox, who arrives sullen and sickly at her uncle's lonely manor on the English moors. But when a friendly robin leads Mary to a mysterious abandoned garden, her life begins to change. She gains a friend named Dickon who can talk to the robin and other various animals Then she discovers another secret -- an invalid cousin hidden away in the depths of the manor. Colin is self-centered and ornery as Mary, but despite their clashing temperaments, a friendship starts to flower. As they work together to rescue the overgrown secret garden, these two irascible children find themselves transformed. My favourite character in this book is Dickon, he's so nice and interesting as he talks to the animals and knows exactly what they mean. I give this book 4.5/5 stars.

Catey

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Also read Book Number The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh... in which it is revealed that one of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese.. or a venerable philosopher.. but is in fact none other than that effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear, A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh! While Eeyore frets... and Piglet hesitates... and Rabbit calculates... and Owl pontificates... Pooh just is.

And that's a clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists.

This book was cute, funny and at times weird and confusing. But I really enjoyed it. I love Pooh and all of his friends! I give this book 4/5 stars. I didn't give it a 4.5 because the author kept capitilizing his words.. like What's There.. It confused me so I cannot give this book any higher than a 4 and any less than that either. (just because Pooh and his buddies show up quite a bit)

Catey

I started doing numbers too because I think they are cool!!

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Update Here are a bunch of books I got in from the library today that I have added to my TBR Island.

The Frog Princess by E. D. Baker
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Last Treasure by Janet Anderson
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Jane and the Barque of Frailty by Stephanie Barron
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Jane Austen in Scarsdale by Paula Marantz Cohen
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Jane and His Lordship's Legacy by Stephanie Barron
The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
If Looks Could Kill by Kate White
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon

Catey

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I've had Eye Contact on my shelf for ages - sounded good! Bridge to Terebithia is wonderful.

I want to second Bridge to Terabithia, I think it is a very good book.

#151 Rachael: I heard about Eye Contact on amazon, where I get most of my TBR from. So you are right, it does sound good.
#151-152 Rachael and Anita: I have only seen the movie of Bridge to Terabithia and have long since wanted to read the book, if it is as good as you say, I will bump it up a bit more. I may read it while I am reading East of Eden which is going slow for me since its pretty big from what I usually read. And I am trying to get a feel for the characters in the story.

Catey

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More books in from the library I am adding to my TBR Island *sigh*. It's getting bigger than I imagined.:
On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle (Cozy Mystery)
Nzingha by Patricia Mckissack (The Royal Diaries Series)
Anastasia by Carolyn Meyer (The Royal Diaries Series)
Lady of Ch'iao Kuo by Laurence Yep (The Royal Diaries Series)
Jahanara by Kathryn Lasky (The Royal Diaries Series)
Kristina by Carolyn Meyer (The Royal Diaries Series)
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (Historical Mystery)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling (Juvenile Fiction)

Catey

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Catey, two items of note regarding The Tao of Pooh: first, have you read the original Pooh stories by A. A. Milne? He often used capital letters to emphasize the Great Importance of Certain Words, especially where Owl and his "intelligence" were concerned. That might help you appreciate the humor behind the capitals a bit more :)
Second, did you know that Bemjamin Hoff also wrote The Te of Piglet? You really ought to read both if you can!

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Laia, well its been awhile since I read Winnie the Pooh so I really don't remember. But thanks so much for the info! :)
I had heard about the Te of Piglet, sadly our library only had The Tao of Pooh, but I will see about ILL if I can.

Catey

Hey Catey, I just copied your monster list of books from post #108 into a word document - I think I will try to read a bunch of them too. I read through them, and I think I have read about 100 or so. I like that is includes children's books too - I like to keep track of the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die as well, but my big criticisms of that list are that it does not include children's or YA books, and it does not include any plays. Your list has a ton of both!

How many from that list have you read? Thanks for posting it!

Cait

Hey Cait, I have read these so far in my life (well on that list anyway):
Pride and Predjudice
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
A Wrinkle in Time
Wuthering Heights
Anne of Green Gables
Little Women
Romeo and Juliet
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
A Wizard of Earthsea
A Ring of Endless Light
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
The Neverending Story
Summer of my German Soldier
The Tao of Pooh
Dicey's Song
Sense and Sensibility
Story of My Life (parts of it)
The Wizard of Oz
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
The Secret Garden
and last but not least
Eragon

Catey

Hey Catey - I've never read the Eragon books - what did you think of them? I've had them recommended to me before, but I have also heard some negative things about them too.

Catey I have not read Eragon either, how was it? Was it a good book I did at one time start Eragon, but never finished it.

Beth (Catey's sister)

Cait, I have only read Eragon so far so I cannot tell you about the others.
I really like dragons and everything about them, so to me, I loved it! I would recommend Eragon to you as well, but since I have yet to have read the others I do not know if I should recommend them or not. The books are centered around Eragon, finding a dragon egg when supposedly all the dragons and their eggs have been killed off. Except those of whom saved their dragons, because in the book, Eragon and a bunch of other people are Dragon Riders. He has a mentor to guide him throughout the book and to teach him to become a Dragon Rider.

I really think you should try to read them.

Catey

I will try reading them!

Good, Bether you really should!

Yay!

Thanks Catey, I will give them a try! I saw that you recommended the Artemis Fowl books too, so I might read the first one of those as well.

That's good, Cait! I love the Artemis Fowl series as well as Eragon although I have not yet read the last in the Artemis Fowl series but I will this year sometime.

Catey

I am planning to read Artemis Fowl this year too, Eragon as a standalone is good, but the series worsens with every book, having read the first three parts though, would have to read the fourth one as and when it comes out.

Well, thats very disappointing. I will however still read them this year since I have already read the first one. :-)

Catey

Ah, serendipity! I've been racking my brain for the reason why The Summer Sherman Loved Me (from Ronincat's thread) sounds so familiar, and now, thanks to you, fantasia, I know - it's because it reminds me of Summer of My German Soldier! I'm so glad you mentioned it! I read it a very long time ago, but I do remember liking it.

Glad to be of service, Amber. I like it too, in fact I just bought it not that long ago. :)

I have read two books today so...

Book Number

The Ideal Wife by Mary Balogh
When Abigail Gardiner knocks at the door of Miles Ripley, Earl of Severn, the last thing she expects is a marriage proposal. What she needs however is help for her younger siblings. Desperate, she'd come to this charismatic stranger's home to plead for help. Instead she shocks them both by saying yes. Her impulsive decision will have consequences neither she nor her new husband can foresee. For Miles has his own reasons for marrying her. And Abigail is harboring a secret of her own... Now these two wary hearts will risk ruin and disgrace for a love that has changed them both forever - the kind all seek but few ever find. I give this book 4/5. You never read about how the younger siblings are but this book was still good.

and Book Number

A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt 3rd in The Tillerman's Series
Jeff Greene was seven when Melody, his mother, left home for good. She left behind a note saying that 'she had work to do in the world; starving children and an endangered ecology had need of her', she said, and he knew Jeff would understand. What Jeff understood was that it became very important to do things just right for the Professor, his father, lest he leave too. So Jeff took each breath, lived each moment, week by week and year by year, with extreme caution to keep things the way his distant, remote, perfectionist father wanted them. Some years later, Jeff was invited to visit Melody in Charleston for the summer, and there he became so totally captured by her quick charm and her beauty that his adoration of her became the center of his existence. Until, in the summer that followed, Melody, all unwitting, betrayed Jeff's love for her. That betrayal and that pain it caused made Jeff see in himself a "ghost in his own life" as deep as his aloneness as the single blue heron he spotted in a Carolina marsh. The shock of Melody's betrayal seemed to be a wound that seemed never to heal. Jeff broke down. But it took that to find genuine love and genuine healing. It took that for Jeff to see clearly and reach out to his father who had been, Jeff discovered, as wounded as he. And there was help: Brother Thomas, the monk, who gave solid guidance to both Jeff and the Professor; and Dicey Tillerman - Melody's opposite in so many ways - whose friendship became an important foundation for Jeff. Together they shared music; to each other they told the truth.
This is most definitely my favorite out of the Tillerman series. It was a very sad book, but in the end all is better. I give this book a 5/5. Because it was a very great book, I would recommend this book to anybody. It can be a standalone or you can read it with the series, it matters not. But I do strongly recommend reading this book sometime in your life.

Thanks Anita! If not for her I never would have known about this series, so thank you so very much!

Catey


ET: fix my spelling errors

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hi Catey
Glad you enjoyed A Solitary Blue too, it is one of my favourites in the series too, together with The Runner, can be read as stand alone too.

I just finished Eragon, I liked it and hope to find the sequels in the library tomorrow.
Anita

Thanks, I will get to The Runner eventually.

That's good to hear, I have only Eragon and not the others, I also have not yet read them either but I will read them this summer, let me know what you think if you get to read them before I do.

Catey

Hi Catey
I'm catching up on the posts and read yours this evening. My, but you are zipping right along with 24 books this month.

Hello to you, and keep up the good work!

Hello and thanks Miss Linda! Yup, and I will continue to zip happily along.

How have you been? I am good but I have a little cold, it should clear up this weekend.

Catey

Before I lose track, I shall write down what I am currently reading.

On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle
The 8.55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie by Andrew Eames
East Of Eden by John Steinbeck

and

The Whitney Chronicles by Judy Baer

oh yay! Can't wait to hear your thoughts on East of Eden!

So far I am only a quarter of the way through it, but it is really good so far! I didn't have a chance to read much this weekend because I had a sleepover. And next week is my friend's birthday so I have to read in between that and school and dinner.

I tryed reading {Artemis Fowl} and I couldn't get into it, but I tryed reading it a long time ago maybe I should try again.

I know... I think if you tried you'd like them!

That's mean! I know how to spell "tried" I just thought mine looked better.

Girls! Stop arguing in public!! (lol)

lol. Catey was being mean.

8^) You know it!

hehehehe..

Whatever.

Ok now that thats over with I can tell y'all what I got from the library (again) today..

Shadowland by Meg Cabot First in The Mediator series
The Witches by Roald Dahl I heard someone talking about this book on someone's thread (sorry cannot remember who) so I decided to read it.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney book #2 in Wimpy series
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart I read about this on Amazon and it looked interesting so I picked it up.
The Serpent Bride by Sara Douglass don't know for sure if I'll get to this book or not but who knows

and

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri For the 999 challenge that Tutu sent me to read in.

and so far this is all..

only 44 books checked out.. :P

Did you ever go ahead and read A Little Princess after you finishe the Secret Garden?

Not yet, but I am going to start on it this weekend, when I get back from a friends house. It shouldn't take me long to read it. :)

Ok so, I joined the 999 challenge group for the first time and so far have only written 9 Classics down but I will get to the others as soon as I do some compiling. :)

Coolio.

I have finished Book Number A Little Princess last night, I had meant to read it this weekend but I had some spare time last night so I went ahead and finished it.
I probably shouldn't have read this with a headache, I just could not put it down so I will probably reread again this year.

Sara Crewe is showered with beautiful clothes and expensive presents by her wealthy, doting father. At the boarding school she goes to, she is treated like royalty by the greedy headmistress, Miss Minchin, and envied by the other girls. Then her father dies, and her fortunes change, and the penniless Sara is banished to the filthy attic alongside Becky the scullery maid. But the fantasy that she is secretly a princess lifts Sara's spirits until the day whenever her fate takes yet another surprising twist.

I can see what you all mean by the book being quite different from the movie, but personally, I like them both the same. I like the fact in the movie, she gets her father back, whereas in the book she does not. But in the book I like the fact that she has friends with a rat named Melchisedec, but in the movie she does not have the friend rat. I give this book a 4/5. I really liked the ending in this book and I liked the Large Family with their funny names she has made up for them.

Now to finish East of Eden which is taking me forever...

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Okay, NOW I get to do my rant. I firmly believe one of the reasons that A Little Princess was such a favorite with children for so many years (and I read it many, many times) is that it helped them experience dealing with very bad things, not only enduring, but enduring with spirit and grace. Life goes on, but it goes on differently. This is real. This happens, this has authenticity.

When, in the movies, it all turns out to be a big mistake, we get wish fulfillment instead of growth, a return to princesshood instead of to a different person, one who has grown and matured from the experience. We get feel-good in the place of real experience, and we rob children of the heart of the story, the fear of the death of a parent and the experience of coping with it vicariously. That, in my opinion, is tragic.

Not that I care all that strongly about it, as you can see. NOT! Okay, I am now carefully stepping OFF of soapbox (my lousy balance!) and returning this thread to normal functioning status.

Catey, I think it was my thread where we were discussing Roald Dahl and The Witches came up, though it may also have been on the YA reading thread. I hope you enjoy it; it's one of his best, I think!

I also really enjoyed The Mysterious Benedict Society; I read and reviewed that one last year. I've heard that the sequel isn't quite as good, so I'm waiting until it comes out in paperback.

The Little Princess is one of my favorite children's books; I did enjoy the movie as a child, but ronin, I absolutely understand your feelings. I think a lot of "Hollywoodification" happens when a book is converted to film, and it makes me so very angry. Most of the time, I'm happier to see a movie and learn that it's based on a book, then read it, than for the reverse to be the case.

#191 fantasia655
I haven't read A Little Princess in years. I think it's time for a re-read.

#192 ronincats
Very good rant. You bring up issues that I would not have thought of. I agree with the points you've made.

192 Roni: I really do understand where you are coming from and I do agree with you, they have twisted the meaning of the book when they turned it into a movie and I believe that Frances Hodgson Burnett was tossing in her grave when they made it but I also believe it could have been a lot worst too.

193 Laia: Oh was it? Sorry I didn't remember too many threads, too little memory to remember it with :P. And I really like knowing that it was based on a book to so I can read it before seeing the film, but I am with my mom I like old movies with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire (sp?) in them. I wanted to read the boy in the striped pyjamas before I saw the movie.

194: Lorie: Glad I could be of help to you and your re-reading :).

Catey

(Smiles) AND I am reading this at the school where my copy of A Little Princess is today. I have been meaning to pull it off the shelf and take it home to reread since Catey first said she was going to read it, and I was always at home or at my other school when I remembered it, so I have just pulled it off the shelf, and guess what I am going to read tonight! My old Yearling Book edition 1975 ($1.25) with the frayed corners. That was NOT my childhood copy, but one I bought myself as a young adult. Talk about a comfort read!

196: Roni, That's awesome!

Note
I just wanted to tell y'all that tomorrow is my besties birthday and we're all getting dressed up and going out to eat so I might post some pics of us. I am really excited about it!

Catey

Catey, I'm just where Lotte has found Sara in the attic and they are looking over the rooftops, but I have to stop and cook supper. enjoy your party!!

That's great! Man, food gets in the way if only we could live without it. *sigh* lol.

Thanks, I think I will have a blast!

Catey

Ok, so I was the only one to get my picture taken but that's ok. We did get lots of videos done though.

And here it is:

Yep, I am in front of a Harry Potter the movie poster!

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Here is a list of books I read this weekend:

Animal Farm by George Orwell I give this book 3.5/5. It was a good book and a pretty sad one at that.

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli I give this book 4.5/5. I really enjoyed this book, it was funny, it was cute, but it also was sad.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney I give this book 5/5. It was sheer funniness and cuteness! I love this series, its a very good pick-me-up after having a cold.

Bridge to Terabithia I am giving this book 4.5/5. It was a very sad book for me. I have seen the movie and the movie was just like the book. I was bawling at the end of this book, I admit it. :)

Am currently reading East of Eden and On What Grounds and She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall (which is a very hard and emotional read but I have wanted to read this book for awhile now) and The Frog Princess and of course The 8.55 to Baghdad.

Catey

Message edited by its author, Feb 8, 2009, 9:06pm.

nice photo Catey!

Yes Bridge to Terabithia is sad, I never saw the movie, but read the book again when the movie came out.
I have better memories of Animal Farm, I read it LONG ago, over 30 years back I think, so it might be time for a re-read.

Anita

Thank you Anita!
The movie is good, you should try and find it so you could watch it, you might want to bring some tissues if you do. :)

Animal Farm was very good, my best friend Terra suggested I read it.
I think you should reread it, maybe this summer?

Catey

P.S. I do have a new thread running around here somewhere, lol.

Catey your soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pretty.

Thank you, Beth!

Your WELCOME Catey.

Catey

I want to thank you for recommending Diary of a Wimpy Kid I read this yesterday and laughed right out loud!

You are quite welcome, Linda! I laughed so many times I lost count. :)

We got your tea in and we shall drink it right up.

Like C.S. Lewis said, "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." Same goes for me and my mom!

Message 108. Holy cow, that's some list. I've read most of it and a lot more besides, but I've probably been on the planet a lot longer than you. Some of those listed, I couldn't stand and some live inside me to this very day. But all I can say is never, not once, have I ever read over the course of only one year such a daunting number of interesting books. I am so impressed.

One thing I have learned, though, is how to say no to a book. Was a time, I started something, I finished it. Well, except anything by Pynchon. I haven't gotten to the end of even one of his books. And this from someone who read James Joyce.

I'm about two thirds of the way through The Secret Magdalene by Ki Longfellow for the second time. Next year, I'll read it again. Some books you read whenever you have to. This is my latest in a lifetime's short list of books I read again and again.

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Thank you for visiting my thread, Anna!
How is The Secret Magdalene going for you the second time around?

I can say no to books.... sometimes... :)

What else are you planning on reading?

The Secret Magdalene is better the second time round because it's so layered. Plus, spurred by my first reading, I've done some research and now I'm even more impressed.

Nowadays, I have a rule. I give a book ten pages. I don't need to be caught by story in only ten pages, but something has to click. Style or hints that things are going to happen for me.

Next is a book yet to be published. It's a proof. But after that, I thought I might go on a mystery binge. Nothing better to really relax than a good mystery. And I thought I'd go back in time, revisit Dorothy L. Sayers.

Might I ask? Do you read for pleasure, or is the above something schoolish?

That's good, I am glad to hear that.

I do 50 pages if I cannot get into the story then I will not finish the book.

I love mysteries but haven't yet read any of Sayers books yet.

Yep you can, I read for pleasure because, well being homechooled you do not get assigned books like you'd do in public school. So I read for pleasure whenever the mood strikes me, which I have to admit is constantly. :)

I'm not reading anything as of now.