Anika

Another one is Isabella Linton for falling in love with Heathcliff. That 'bad-boy' image (i.e. sexy & dangerous) may be attractive initially, but it's usually a regrettable choice in the long run.

Oh, yes! I'm a big re-reader of books I like too! That's the best thing about having a 'sick-day' in bed! I can get through (re-reading) about 2-3 novels in a day. (Nothing else to do, but be sickly so the distraction helps!) But mainly, I like to take my time over a good book the first time through. Sort of savor it, especially if the writing is exceptional, and I usually make sure it will be before I even start reading any book! Why waste your time, otherwise. I guess what I don't understand is this new 'signature' thing some people have about HOW MANY books they've already read so far--like it's a RACE, or something......? A competition. What does it matter? And how can you enjoy any book when you're more worried about hurrying through it? Just so you can say you read, 'such-and-such'--? So what! If it's a modern author who churns 'em out--- Big deal! How is that accomplishing anything? I just don't get it....... call me lost and bewildered, but I thought reading was a personal communication with one's own brain and emotions (if the book is good enough to affect them!) NOT a speed trial!!

and DOUBLE>>>!!! I used to live in them as a kid, but now I have money of my own. (And, a car!) If I just want to read something current I get it at the local used-book store and then give it away later, and I decide when later is! Could be a year or two. Imagine the fines for a book that late!

Yes, this is sometimes a problem for me, because I'm too drawn into the plot and esp. at the end, I am assimilating the denouement of the story. But, I always have a 'face' in mind for the characters when I read, and I never forget those!

Whuthering Heights ~ by Emily Bronte The Heart is a Lonely Hunter ~ by Carson McCullers Les Miserables ~ by Victor Hugo Madame Bovary ~ by Gustave Flaubert The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ~ by Henry Fielding

'Two Centuries of Garden Writing' edited by Claire Best & Caroline Boisset

Mr. Hyde. ( Of 'Dr. Jekyll and.....') Sometimes, I think I have an evil alter-ego dying to have a life of her own! When you're nice to everybody all the time, they seem to take advantage of it. I'd love to set certain people straight (i.e.--lazy slackers at work, that goof off all day!) and get away with it.

The Sarah Caudwell mysteries would make a funny tv series. Too bad there aren't more of them.

I'd like to sit down and have a chat with Sherlock Holmes, I think. Then pop over and pose for one of the Pre-Raphaelite artists. I suppose if I tossed Rossetti's poems in the machine it would get me there, heh?

Torrent

'On Gardening' by Helen Dillon

Trepidation

It doesn't bother me at all.

"Thou loggerheaded guts-griping flax-wench" (flax-wench?) I gotta leave this thread alone for a bit. It hurts to laugh that hard. .

...scan the horizon, until he saw...