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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 August 2008 | | 267 | Transcending, Tuesday 5:37pm |  |
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| 888 Challenge : lisalouhoo's 888 | | 79 | lisalouhoo, August 21 | |
| Anglophiles : 19th Century British Literature | | 41 | Booksloth, August 11 | |
| The Green Dragon : What are you reading in July? | | 172 | SpicyCat, August 2 | |
| Tea! : Tea + Books = Paradise! | | 34 | Eurydice, July 13 | |
| 888 Challenge : Sky34's | | 61 | sky34, July 11 | |
| 888 Challenge : morninggray's 888 | | 27 | morninggray, July 7 | |
| King's Dear Constant Readers : Literature or not? | | 42 | Booksloth, June 28 | |
| Virago Modern Classics : Recommendations | | 23 | Soupdragon, June 26 | |
| 888 Challenge : My Challenge | | 7 | LynCollett, June 24 | |
| Best of British : Classic or contemporary | | 30 | Grammath, April 24 | |
| The Green Dragon : The TBR List from Hell | | 74 | citygirl, March 29 | |
| Catholic Homeschoolers : What Are You Reading Now? | | 9 | SaintSunniva, March 19 | |
| I Love Jane Austen : Jane Austen biographies | | 6 | fannyprice, March 9 | |
| Dormant: I Love Jane Austen : Film Adaptations - Mansfield Park | | 67 | compskibook, February 8 | |
| Dormant: Site talk : Fiction/Non-Fiction awry again | | 17 | AnnaClaire, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 2 Dec 2006 | | 87 | kfl1227, December 2006 | |
| Awful Lit. : Awful Classics? | | 475 | Pepys, Wednesday 7:17am |
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| 50 Book Challenge : Nickelini's 2008 | | 131 | Nickelini, Monday 8:57pm |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : Book Roots! How we come to have the books we read! | | 83 | bell7, August 12 |
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| Book talk : Name authors that after youve red them first, you had the urge to read EVERYTHING they wrote. | | 394 | digifish_books, July 31 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What books are next on your reading list? Part 2 | | 103 | retropelocin, July 18 |
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| Awful Lit. : Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre | | 56 | summerbis, April 23 |
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| Connecticut Nutmeggers : Middlemarch (Spoilers Here) | | 27 | clamairy, March 24 |
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| Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : December 2007 edition | | 58 | thioviolight, January 27 |
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#8 - is it me or do all the "classics" crawl along?
I am readin Pride and Prejudice as I know people who love Jane Austin and thought I'd better see what it was they liked and I am afraid I just don't get it.
This happened when I read Mark Twain, too. Persuasion by Jane Austen. Just never read it. I love the "older" heroine, Anne. The passing glances in the book are more telling then the movies I have watched. I love her details in storytelling. I have never read the Jane Austen} books, so that is on my list.
Also on the list:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Kite Runner
A Soldier's Promise
Rhett Butlers People
A Bend in the Road
A Walk to Remember
Jane Eyre
Going to a cottage in Boothbay Harbor, Maine for ... ... reading Gaskell for the first time. Other works that straddle the not too heavy, not too light bridge, are, of course, Jane Austen's novels. You've probably read those. If not, they're all worth reading. Edith Wharton is good, although she can be depressing. She can be quite witty in ... ... enjoying biographies having always found them too dry before.
1. The Mitford Girls by Mary S Lovell - READ
2. Jane Austen: a life by Claire Tomalin - READ
3. The Mistress' Daughter by A M Homes - READ
4. An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame - Volume 1 READ, 2 and 3 to go. ... ... on Amazon - it turned up in the "other things people who bought this bought" section and it looked interesting.
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin - I have been keen to read this since it came out and, having always enjoyed Austen's novels, I wanted to know more about her life. ... I have always said that in 500 years from now SK his books will still be read and discussed just like Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters,Charles Dickens, etc. I really beleive that Stephen King and some of today's writers Ursula K. LeGuin, Anne Rice, Ray Bradbury, Andre ... George Eliot
Graham Greene
Jane Austen
Anne Tyler
Alice McDermott
Ann Patchett
Sue Miller
Ian McEwan
Barbara Pym
Richard Russo
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Harper Lee (Too bad there is only one!) For "classic" fiction I enjoy Jane Austen, the Brontes, William Thackeray, George Eliot, and E.M. Forster. Thackeray in particular - mostly because I wasn't expecting as much with his novels and Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond were so wonderful. I really think he's undervalued right now.
... ... from the early 20th century, The Wind in the Willows were early favourites read to me as bedtime stories.
I detest Jane Austen, which I know is not a popular stance. I don't envy Mr. Rossetti for having to try to teach Emma to a room of bored 16 year old boys, but he did a poor job ... ... Bennet, a novella about the Queen discovering books that us commoners have loved. Looking forward to it! I also received Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin, Down the Common by Ann Baer, A Tree Grows in Brooklin by Betty Smith, and I have the ARC of The Venetian Mask on the way as well! ... * lights blue touchpaper, stands well back *
The collected works of Jane Austen and Henry James. I finished 2 books today: Jane Austen: a life, by Claire Tomalin. I liked reading this one, it seems to be a very thorough biography. I enjoy Austen's books a lot and I love reading them and I love reading about Jane Austen, I am no experts as some fans (I don't know how to call it otherwise?) ... ... it and the other one I had lying around unfinished for a long time, because all the exam-reading came in between.
#16 Jane Austen: a life - Claire Tomalin
#17 Beatrix Potter: a journal I've read Carol Shield's Jane Austen a couple of times and quite enjoyed it. It's a quick read. No, she was never married. I'll leave it up to some serious Janeites to answer the other questions, as they can describe it better than I. Have fun exploring her life! She's an interesting person, ... I read part of Claire Tomalin's Jane Austen: A Life several years ago but didn't like it much. I think I found it just a little too informal for my taste. ... About Literature, Judith Woolf
8. Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell
9. King Lear, by William Shakespeare
10. Jane Austen, by Carol Shields (reread)
11. The London Scene, by Virginia Woolf
12. Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare
13. The Winter's Tale, ... #426 spot on.
I don't envy my sixth form English teacher having to try to enthuse a group of 16 year old boys about Jane Austen (Emma was a set A level text), but he put me off for life.
Reading 20 pages of The Portrait of a Lady during my degree did the same with Henry James. Life ... maryanntherese,
Rather than bothering with Google, I'll ask here: Were Jane Austen and the Brontes contemporaries? I wouldn't necessarily have thought of putting the two together in one sentence, except that they are English. This is due to my discovering them without reference to English ... ... on Tristes tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss, although that will be the Dutch translation. I am still halfway through Jane Austen:a life. Maybe I'll try a light YA read in between, to relax. Anyway, this probably means that this will be my last update in a while. I finished Princess in Training yesterday. I haven't finished Jane Austen: A Life yet, and am afraid it will not happen in a while either, since I am currently studying again. This means I am reading Geschiedenis van de filosofie by Hans Joachim Störig, but only parts of it. I think it's a ... ... Think how acting styles have changed since Lawrence Olivier.
I only wish Merchant/Ivory had turned their hands to Jane Austen the way they did to E. M. Forester. ... - Jane Austen 27/05
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8 non-fiction books that aren't prescribed by my study
1. Jane Austen: A life - Claire Tomalin 13/03
2. Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination - Peter Ackroyd
3. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill ... Anything long and rambling; Jane Austen's an obvious answer, but so is a truly great fantasy /SF series, Rosemary Kirstein's Steer'swoman series. Earl Grey, Raspberry Royale and Constant Comment are my choices for tea; the latter especially good in winter. Memoir/ Biography:
1.Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azir Nafisi
2. Jane Austen; a life by David Nokes
3. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (completed 1/25/2008)
4. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
5. ... ... Morton-Shaw
City of Beasts by Isabel Allende
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Emma by Jane Austin
Aim Low by Dave Dunseath
Living Without a Goal by James Ogilvy
The Coffee Companion by Jon Thorn
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas ... ... were entirely dependent upon men. (On an aside, the excellent Claire Tomalin wrote a fascinating biography of Austen, Jane Austen: A Life.) ... general I find that Cathy and Heathclif's characters bare little resemblance to real people. If fact the reason why I like Jane Austen so much is her remarkable grasp of everyday human nature. The ladies maybe in period dress, but I can easily recognize their foibles in myself and people I know. ... ... the Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
The Art of Fiction by John Gardiner
Jane Austen: A Life by David Nokes (the touchstone for which leads to Claire Tomalin's book of the same title without an "others" link)
Emily Dickinson ... ... Claire Tomalin's Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self. I've been looking forward to this for a while--I've read her Jane Austen: A Life and thought it was brilliant. I also find it fascinating that she chose these two subjects. Pepys left behind exhaustive biographical material, while ...
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