[Books that made you cry]

I haven't read a lot of those, but these two made me cry buckets. I take it you haven't read The Book Thief or I'm sure that would be on the list too!

 

Oh boy! I'll have to read that one.

[Wilde Lily ~]

Thank you all for such a warm welcome!

[Books that made you cry]

I'm a big cry-baby. Here's the huge list of books that have made me cry:

 

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Stuart Little by E.B. White

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Ethan Fromme by Edith Wharton

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo,

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

The Little Matchgirlby Hans Christian Andersen

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

An American Tragedy by Theodor Dreiser...

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

 

[Which author would you like to be stuck in a lift with]

Oscar Wilde, for sure. I'd just let him talk! He was so clever and witty and was a gifted conversationalist.

[Reading in the car?]

It's always been my cross to bear that I cannot read in the car. I just get too carsick.

[longest novel ????]

War and Peace at 1296 pages, and Les Mis

[Quoting from Books]

I have a large collection of favorite quotes which I keep in a folder on my computer. I add to it constantly.

[A new first line of current book]

Carl Laurids is born at M

[Favourite fantasy book]

I don't generally read fantasy books, but I loved The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. After much prodding by my teenaged daughter I finally read the Twilight series and really did enjoy them.

[Where is your favourite reading place?]

I have a reading chair and footstool in my bedroom. It's in front of the window for reading during the day, and next to a lamp for nighttime reading. Very comfy.

[Wilde Lily ~]

Hi ~ I'm Liz. I'm 49 and live in Annapolis, Maryland, in the USA. I'm the married mother of one daughter and four sons, ages 5, 17, 17, 29 and 24.

 

My favorite authors are Oscar Wilde, Anne Tyler, George Simenon, Ruth Rendell, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlotte Bronte, and Evelyn Waugh. I also enjoy reading history, especially Tsarist Russia and Pre- Revolutionary France.

 

My favorite poets are Rainier Maria Rilke, William Blake, T.S. Elliot, Langston Hughes, Anna Akhmatova, Dorothy Parker, and Li Po.

 

I enjoy music as well, Brahms, Schubert, Delibes, and the modern groups R.E.M.. Pearl Jam, The Verve, Rufus Wainwright, The Who. Air, The Cure,

 

My favorite artists are Vilhelm Hammersh