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I believe that Air on a G String was originally composed by Bach sometime in the mid-eighteenth century. It's one of my favorites also, and is often played at weddings here.

I used to play the flute and the piano, but I haven't been able to in recent years because of living in apartments. As soon as my boyfriend and I are able to rent a house, my parents are giving my my grandmother's piano, which she bought used in the 1930's. It's the piano my brothers and I grew up playing, so it's very special. I also want to take up the flute again, as they're very inexpensive to rent. I LOVE classical music! I love anything by Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn (the Emperor's Quartet is my favorite), and Schubert. My family is very musical, and my parents never listened to modern music (they stopped after about 1950), so this is what we always had playing at home. I'm not a huge fan of opera, but I love watching ballet.

This was one of my favorite books that I have read so far this year.

Welcome to the forum, Amanda!

I wanted to bump this thread up for all our recent new members. Feel free to add your info here!!

Here are mine! Shirley by Charlotte Bronte Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Persuasion by Jane Austen I probably read all of these at least once a year, and I never get bored with them!

Welcome to the forum! There are a lot of other classics fans (myself included), so check out the reading circles and social groups!

I closed the store tonight, so I don't have the energy to cook. I just microwaved some pizza rolls and had a Vitamin Water.

Hmmm...that is indeed a difficult one. I think prospero's right - most teen or young adult fiction has at least one of those elements, which is probably why teens read them. (At least in my experience.) Maybe some of the younger members have some ideas?

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I haven't read that one yet. I wanted to many years ago, but my mom wouldn't let me. My favorite so far of Clive Barker's is Weaveworld, but it's not all that scary.

That's where I wrote my one, and only one, really insulting review. I wrote it two years ago because I had an almost physical reaction to this book (it was awful) and I've been terrified ever since of the author retaliating in some way. I've never written another review for Amazon!

Wow. I guess that goes back to another point we were discussing...whether we need to be super-sensitive to the feelings of the author. But being a published author means dealing with bad reviews...I'm sure they ALL get them from time to time. As long as a review is respectful, insightful, and gives an honest and in-depth opinion, what's to complain about?

Like everything then, including literature, it's up to the reader to determine what makes it worth reading. For me, one that is informative and gives an honest opinion, but without being insulting or too flowery, works best for me, and those are also the reviews I try to write. When I'm writing a review, I have the potential reader of it in mind, and I'm trying to help them in their choice of what to read by giving them my honest and respectful opinion.