Welcome amanda4242!

@amanda4242 happy to have you here! You're such a wealth of knowledge on LT, I know all our new users will get to knowing their way around very easily with your help. Thanks for joining, and I look forward to getting to know you better myself as well.

(amanda4242 is a long time user of Library Thing (LT) ,enjoys a bit of poetry in another group here called - The Poetry Collective, and is very helpful all over the site. If you need to know how to do something here; look no further.)

>1 TonjaE: Hi! I saw you were going to be reading my favorite Forster book in January so I had to join in.

I keep a reading log over in the 75 Books Challenge, but I tend to neglect it in favor of reading another book. https://www.librarything.com/topic/366793

>2 amanda4242: Oh that's fantastic, it seems Maurice is putting together quite a few connections with us already. I think I might get a sneaky early start on it and looking forward to hearing your experience of it. Going to check out your reading log now :)

>2 amanda4242: I'm tickled pink you will be reading with us, Amanda. Are you a Forster fan? I look forward to adding more Forster in my life.

I've read
A Passage to India (twice)
A Room with a View
The Machine Stops an incredibly prescient short story, a classic
Aspects of the Novel an enlightening exploration of techniques of the novel. It's where he explained what is plot, the third line,

The king died. Then the queen died.
The king died. Then the queen died of grief.
The king died. Then some say the queen died of grief.

Isn't that fabulous?

>4 DebiCates: I do enjoy Forster very much. I've read:

A Room with a View several times
Maurice three or four times
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Howards End (I really need to re-read it one of these days.)
Aspects of the Novel, which is very informative
and some of his short stories

>5 amanda4242: 3 or 4 times? And want to read it again? That is quite a testament. I'm even more keen for Jan's read now. @TonjaE, I love your genius, and good timing, putting this group together. I say that and we haven't even read 1 page yet. ha It's going to be good, though, I feel it in my bones.

>6 DebiCates: *shrug* It's been a few years since I've read it and I love revisiting good books.

>2 amanda4242: Hey would you mind if I linked your reading log in this group on the 'create your own' thread? It's a great example.

>8 TonjaE: Go ahead.

>9 amanda4242: Yay! thanks x

>6 DebiCates: No one has ever accused me of having genius or good timing before! Thanks... I think. :)

I have a beautiful set of Forsters' novels published by the Folio Society, all of which need reading. I think years ago I must have seen some films based on his books which I enjoyed, then meaning to read them as well but I haven't got around to them yet so I can't wait for JAN 2026 read now too.

>11 TonjaE: I have a beautiful set of Forsters' novels published by the Folio Society

Lucky you! I have paperbacks that I picked up here and there; they don't look pretty, but that means I don't feel guilty when I underline favorite passages.

>12 amanda4242: That's a good point. I won't be taking them out of the house at all either, so their quite restricting really... yay for paperbacks, I love them just as much because no matter what they look like, every book is full of magic inside.

>13 TonjaE: We readers almost need two separate personal libraries: one of the editions for reading, one of the beautiful expensive editions for just making us visually happy.

I have a few books that I bought because I love their cover art but have zero interest in reading. How demented is that?