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x This is on my TBR, great review .

x This one's on my shelf, great review ! x x I haven't got this one, though I have three other books by Virginia Woolf. Great review!

Julie, you've made some very interesting posts ! I'll have to look up what Dr. Seuss' books are called in Dutch, I'm not sure if I've ever read one or not.

These are the ones I own if I'm correct (if read, comments between brackets): The Best of Me- Nicholas Sparks Les Miserables-Victor Hugo The Scarlet Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne Pride & Prejudice-Jane Austen Paper Towns-John Green The Fault in our Stars-John Green (I'm currently reading this one) Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen Emma- Jane Austen Persuasion Jane Austen A Walk to Remember- Nicholas Sparks The Lucky One- Nicholas Sparks (really liked this one) David Copperfield- Charles Dickens Hard Times- Charles Dickens Life of Pi- Yann Martel Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte (loved this one) Don Quixote- Cervantes The Iliad - Homer Hamlet- Shakespeare Great Expectations- Charles Dickens Moby Dick- Herman Melville Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen Othello -Shakespeare Our Mutual Friend- Charles Dickens This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald Nicholas Nickleby- Charles Dickens A Midsummer Night's Dream- Shakespeare The Beautiful and Damned- F. Scott Fitzgerald Little Dorrit- Charles Dickens The Perks of Being a Wallflower -Stephen Chbosky (I thought this one was allright, nice but not worth the hype) Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson In short, a lot of good reading ahead of you. Happy Reading !

Sorry to hear you didn't like The Daylight War. It's nice to read your thoughts on it though. I hope you like Red Mars, I read the Dutch translation in the library years ago and really liked it. Recently I bought the book in English so I could re-read it in its original language. I look forward to see your thoughts on this one!

Happy belated birthday!! P. S. Great reviews .

Great review ! The book was already on my wishlist.

It says it's the second edition and it's published in 2012 .

I hope you have a nice wedding ! I plan for our wedding, sometime in the future, to be small as well. Personally I've only ever attended one wedding in my whole life, and I don't remember a whole lot from it. I hope you have fun .

That sounds good, Kylie !

I hope you like The Storyteller! I'm waiting for the paperback release.

That's amazing! I don't know of many libraries in books or movies on top of my head (I think there's a nice one in Inkheart but it could've also been a different film..).. I'll have to think about it!

Nice reviews, Claire! x x This is going on the wishlist . x x Nice to read your review on this one, I recently read it so it's nice to hear what someone else thought of it. x x Also going on the wishlist!

Awww, I'm sorry to hear about your health problems, Laura. I wish you the best . I hope you feel better soon.

x Coraline is on my wishlist, I'm glad to hear you liked it .

On my holidays I came across this book (1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die) and I bought it. I look forward to going through it and seeing if there's any books in there I might want to read. I should also go read all 13 pages of this thread XD.

Janet, you're making great progress! Excellent .

Who was your favourite character? I'm not sure to be honest, I didn't really like most of the characters. Who was your least favourite character? Dr. Merkle, I can't find anything positive about her whatsoever. It was so mean what she did! I liked Harley in the beginning but not any more later on, once we find out what a mean person he is. Was there a particular part you enjoyed more than the rest? Not particularly, though I enjoyed hearing about the little library. Was this the first book you've read in this genre/ by this author, has it encouraged you to read more? I haven't read any books by Edith Wharton before. I had to look up quite a few words (easy on the Kindle, gladly!) and some structures were weird to me, but other than that I felt it read like a contemporary written historical novel. Genre wise I have it classed as literature and indeed I do plan on reading more of that. This book did encourage me to do so, I found it to be relatively readable. I own The Age of Innocence in paperback, so I'll read that sometime. Were there any parts/ideas you struggled with? Only the words and structures that were unfamiliar to me (mainly language from back then, words used back in those days). Overall, was reading the book an enjoyable experience? Yes, it was. Though the story isn't without its flaws, I did enjoy it. How has Charity changed (come of age) throughout the novel? I feel she has changed a bit but I would've liked to see a greater change. What were Harley's intentions? Did he have feelings for Charity, or was he simply using her? I think he may have had feelings for her, however it was wrong to act upon them as long as he was in a relationship (engaged even) with another woman. Were Royall's intentions purely honorable? No, in the end he did an honorable thing (though, like others, I find it weird that he'd want to marry someone he'd consider a daughter to him) but earlier on in the book he was mean to Charity and abused her. How do you feel about the ending? Did Charity make the right decision? I think for her child she did, however whether she will be happy this way I don't know. I would've liked a different ending, I guess a more feministic one, where she'd go out and find a job and take care of the baby herself. But considering its time, those things didn't happen back then. It wasn't a bad ending, though. It made sense, though I didn't see it coming. x It sounded really nice to me. P. S. Can we pin this thread and unpin the July one?

x I've got this one on my shelf (albeit in a big paperback edition and not a smaller one). I've heard a lot of good things about it, look forward to hear what you think when you've finished it. x x I've heard good things about this one too, I hope you like it! (it's on my wishlist)

Welcome here!

x Just thought I'd jump in and say, if you type [ spoiler ] <<put your spoilery text here [ / spoiler ] without spaces, it will show up as this:

x I hope your mojo will keep being well! Inkheart is on my wishlist, I own Inkspell. I bought it for my sister but it turned out she already had it, so I kept it. I liked the film Inkheart, hopefully one day I'll get books one and three and read the whole series. x x Awww poor you! Libraries here don't close for summer. They are always closed on Sundays but are open the rest of the week (with the exception of public holidays). Good luck . x x I bought two M. C. Beaton books while I was on holidays. I'll post a list later, I've already made it but I haven't read any reading logs yet. I'm currently reading John Green - The Fault in Our Stars and am really liking it so far. Books I've read since I last posted in this thread (before my holidays): Susan Hatler - Better Date than Never 2: Truth or Date Susan Hatler - Better Date than Never 4: Save the Date Brandon Sanderson - The Emperor's Soul Edith Wharton - Summer Ian Ford - A Field Guide to Earthlings (reviews to follow in my reading log later)

I've got a couple of books lined up as well, though mainly the same ones as before with a few added, in the usual style. I can post them if people are interested, though .

This is an interesting question. I'm not sure if I could pin-point it. Clearly it does depend on the genre too, non-fiction will have different things that are important than fiction (though they'll have the same reasons, too). I'm going to have to think about this one..

I've found that over the years, reading English got easier and easier, up to the point where now I find it easier to read an English book rather than a Dutch one. My boyfriend's British so I speak English on a regular basis these days. I think, unless you have a specific reason of why it's hard to read (ie. a disability), it should get easier over time. If you do it a lot, you'll get better at it.