Wilde Lily

If I can get a plane ticket fast enough, may I join you? My mouth is watering!

Oh yes, it is an intense book. I shed quite a few tears myself.

You're very welcome, Gil. I knew you'd like it here...and I got to know the beautiful story of your three weddings!

Gil!!! Welcome! I'm thrilled to see you here.

At the little town of Vevay, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. ~ Daisy Miller by Henry James

I just finished The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Here's my review: The Virgin Suicides is a beautiful book - poignant, depressing, gut-wrenching, beautiful. Jeffrey Eugenides, by using the unusual first person plural for narration, makes us feel as though we are one of the narrators who watched the Lisbon girls, who tried to understand them but never could, who mourned their suicides into adulthood, still wishing there could have been a connection between us and the Lisbon girls, that somehow we may have been able to stop the girls from killing themselves. For anyone looking for a moral to this story, for a lesson learned by the suicides of the Lisbon sisters, there is none. The Virgin Suicides is not a morality tale. It's about a tragic, bittersweet period in several teenagers lives. Why did the Lisbon sisters commit suicide? Was it their stifling mother and her religious fanaticism? Was it the times, the mid '70s suburbia fa

Seiichi, that's a beautiful poem. I've never read it before.Very touching.

Microwaved leftovers for me.

Have you read The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Genevieve? It's the Arthurian legend sen through the eyes of the women. It's one of my favorite books.

Hi there, and welcome!!

Good question, Guilia. Hmmm...I like either one, although my favorite poems are all rhyming ones. When it comes to poems that don't rhyme, they have to be very well written and thought out. I think there's a bigger temptation for poets who don't rhyme to get carried away with the idea of "stream of conciousness" writing, which often turns affected in the hands of an untalented poet.

Yes, I did. I love them. I'm thrilled that someone else besides me is a fan, too.

My favorite is the hilariously clever The Importance of Being Earnest. Lady Windermere's Fan iswonderful as well. Just a month ago I read Salom

I'm 49.

Fictional literature is full of villains, and we love to hate them! Who are some of your favorites? Here's mine: Hannibal Lechter from Silence of the Lambs Bill Sikes from Oliver Twist Professor Moriarty from The Final Problem (Sherlock Holmes) The White Witch from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Alec d'Urberville from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Mrs. Danvers from Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Count Dracula from Dracula by Brahm Stoker Lestat from The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice Javert from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur c. Clarke __________________

The Secret Garden The Mists of Avalon Jane Eyre Rebeccca

Usually one, but many times two.

The Bridges of Madison County...and I even cried in the end.