Wilde Lily

....living creature in the universe to....

Thanks so much!

Hi Katherine! I'm Liz, a newbie, too, 49 years old for one month now, AND I have 5 kids. I love Dorithy Sayers and Sherlock Holmes, as well. Have you read any of Ruth Rendell's psychological mysteries, or George Simenon's Inspector Maigret books?

Baked ziti and meatball casserole is in the oven. My daughter's prepared a lovely salad of mixed greens. A loaf of Italian bread is waiting to be sliced. Mmmm....my tummy's rumbly!

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

Thank you all for such a warm welcome!

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

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

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

War and Peace at 1296 pages, and Les Mis

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

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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.

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.

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