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| The Green Dragon : Weekend of August 15th - 17th, 2008 - What are your plans? | | 58 | monohex, August 17 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #1: JULY. 2008 | | 270 | teelgee, July 16 |
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| Dormant: Read YA Lit : What are you reading in March? | | 73 | yareader2, April 2007 |
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... reading and LTing, relaxing after extremely stressful week. Playing with new kitty. Forcing daughter to read as much of Cyrano de Bergerac as I can get her to so she won't have to cram next weekend for start of school.
Going through Band Boosters books for the year to see if my ... The Sun also Rises
La Storia
Madame Bovary
Phèdre di Racine
Cyrano de Bergerac ... old friends from which I have to stop and re-read. All unexpected because the books are just shelved in any old order...Cyrano de Bergerac followed by a Nero Wolfe followed by Puck of Pook's Hill followed by an Andre Norton I haven't read since I was a kid. I can see a number of very ... Cyrano de Bergerac An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts A New Version in English Verse by Edmond Rostand ... thinking of new ones as I read your lists.
Beauty: A retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ... Yes, I would have put DH in the freezer after Chapter 3 or 4.
And make room in there for Cyrano de Bergerac. #3- I'll see if I can find one of the dedications, Mar.
Cyrano de Bergerac- It was to the soul of CYRANO that I intended to dedicate this poem.
But since that soul has been reborn in you, COQUELIN, it is to you that I dedicate it. ~E.R. ... was telling me to hurry up! They wanted to close! so it's a duplicate, too.
Movies I found out were books
Cyrano de Bergerac I read it in high school and loved it. I want to reread it.
Angela's Ashes I saw the movie long before I knew it was a book, and I've never read ... ... horeau
-Buddhism and Zen by Nyogen Senzaki
-An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life by Dalai Lama
-Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
-Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
-Siddartha by Herman Hesse ... under Stephen Cleobury and Florilegium under Ashley Solomon performing works by Handel and Purcell.
Drama On 3: Cyrano de Bergerac. Sunday 23 March 2008 20:00-22:15. By Edmond Rostand and translated from the French by Anthony Burgess. Set in 17th century France, Rostand's ... ... simply think it would be interesting.
Feel free to repeat titles or authors. Just don't repeat the combinations!
Cyrano de Bergerac by PG Wodehouse?
The Da Vinci Code by Thomas Pynchon?
Queen of the Tambourine by Lynd ... ... Harry Potter series. If that wasn't allowed, I'd go for Beauty: A retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast or Cyrano de Bergerac, or really anything by P. G. Wodehouse, Jasper Fforde, or C. S. Lewis. I'd also bring along elbakerone, because she would have some Shakespear ... I just got a 1910 hardcover edition of Cyrano de Bergerac, in French, for $15 in Berkeley. It's gorgeous, with a ridged leather spine and beautiful swirly blue endpapers.
The inscription reads: "Scholarship price (sic) to our best French pupil in 1920 --J. Jobard"
I'm in love. 
*faints*
Vincent Pérez as Christian de Neuvillette in Cyrano de Bergerac (based on a play based on a real person's life, but nonetheless...)
Edited to fix touchstone.
... At first, I had a hard time getting into it, but found it rewarding once I did. Of course, any book with a connection to Cyrano pretty much gets instant approval from me.
Now I'm about to start another advance reader's copy of a book -- Princess Ben by Catherine Murdock. It looks ... ... page if you're really all that interested.
FAVOURITE BOOKS: Beauty: a retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast. Cyrano de Bergerac. The complete works of William Shakespeare. The Blue Castle. The Poky Little Puppy. The Harry Potter series, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and ... Cyrano de Bergerac. I used to tell people "I am Cyrnao" -- which got me a lot of strange looks, let me tell you! But he's my favorite character in literature.
"Philospher, scientist, poet, swordsman, musician, aerial traveler, maker of sharp retorts, and lover (not to his advantage! ... ... link was for his son's work, not the father who I think is the more talented--especially check out his bindings for Cyrano, Salome, and the Songs of Bilitis:
http://www.jsobota.cz/jan_sobota.htm
...
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Captain's Verses, Pablo Neruda
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
... and ... ... the Seven Gables, short stories
O. Henry -- short stories
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Tempest, Two ... Okay now I am going to do favorite plays
1 The winter's Tale
2 Hamlet
3 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
4 Cyrano De Bergerac
5 King Lear
6 Arcadia
7 As You Like It
8 Oedipus Rex & Antigone
9 The Imaginary Invalid
10 Copenhagen
(Okay I entirely shirked the Am ... ... Narnia
Catwings series by Ursula K. LeGuin
Lost Horizon
Lord Valentine's Castle
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Cyrano de Bergerac
Flatland
Grrr...That's ten already. I want you all to know this is killing me. If I had time I would divide them into categories (children's, YA, ... ... my keyboard, they're to the right of the "p" key) around the title.
My top ten at the moment, in no particular order:
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery
Beauty: a ... ... and reread them too many times to count!
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Cyrano de Bergerac
Les Miserables
Ransom
Paradise
Whitney, My Love Oh, I do that, suge! Especially in my very favorites -- for example, there are a couple of scenes in Cyrano de Bergerac (favorite play ever) that I go back to, depending on my mood. And, of course, certain scenes or chapters in the HP series. ... do I.
Here's a short list of my regulars, not including the 'escapist' stuff that I use to put me to sleep:
Dune
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Book of Morgaine
Mark Twain
Jonathan Swift
The Left Hand of Darkness
Across the Sea of Suns
Thes ... Just a guy here:
Cyrano de Bergerac
Multiple characters from Francesca Block's Weetzieverse including Witch Baby, and My Secret Agent Lover Man/Max. I also have a bit of an obsession with Vixanne Wigg.
I'd so do the original John Constantine. But not Keanu, it's gotta be someone ... Okay -- because it's waaay too late and I should be asleep right now. . .
Major ones:
Cyrano de Bergerac from the play of that name by Edmond Rostand. More than ten years now, my most long-standing literary crush.
Eugenides (Gen) from The Thief/Queen of Attolia/King of Attolia by ... My favorite author is Shakespeare.
My favorite poet is John Donne.
My favorite play is Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.
That said, and before I sound too highbrow, I write children's and YA, and I would usually say that my favorite book is Beauty : a retelling of the story ... ... Pulse recently -- The Night Dance and Beauty Sleep and so on.
I also read Geraldine McCaughrean's Cyrano -- Cyrano de Bergerac is my all-time favorite play/work of literature/character, so I have mixed feelings about re-interpreting it. On one hand, she did a very good job of ... ... if I can put these down. In no particular order:
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Watchmen by Alan Moore (yeeeeessss, I know. Graphic Novel. But still! ^_^)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Dragonlance C ... ... I have already recieved the sound and the fury, the hunchback of notre dame, the legend of sleepy hollow, and cyrano de bergerac. If you havent looked into it I would recommend it.
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