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    Liz K's Reading for 2010

    in Past Book Logs

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    I usually don't post reviews here, but I thought I just had to post this about the last book I read, which was awful, and I would not want anyone to think "Hmmmm, that sounds good" and then blame me later :lol:.

     

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    Liz K's Classic Challenge

    in Classics Club

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    I always challenge myself to read/listen to a few Classics every year. I also tend to read/listen to a lot of British authors (Yes I'm a shameless Anglophile).

     

    1. Daisy Miller - Henry James

    Short book and sort of silly. Sometimes I think men have trouble writing about women without making them seem...well...silly.

     

    2. Showboat - Edna Ferber

    An American Classic. Entertaining read, not as difficult as some other Classic literature.

     

    3. Agnes Gray (audio) - Anne Bronte

    I really liked this one. It is hit or miss with me and the Bronte sisters. I've read works by the other sisters and didn't enjoy them as much.

     

    4. Summer (audio) - Edith Wharton

    One of my favorite books ever. I read a lot of Edith Wharton, but I adored this one.

     

    5. Silas Marner (audio) - George Eliot

    This was great. I always tought George Eliot wrote very good stories. I like her much better than the Bronte sisters.

     

    6. Madame Bovary (audio) - Gustave Flaubert

    Very Very long and wordy. Predictable. Not a bad story, very interesting in parts.

     

    7. The Glimpses of the Moon (audio) - Edith Wharton

    Gah, not a fav of mine, but still a Wharton fan.

     

    8. A Tale of Two Cities (audio) - Charles Dickens

    It held my interest enough, not my favorite of his

     

    9. The Little Lame Prince - Dinah Mulock Craik

    Very lovely fairy tale.

     

    10. Old New York - Edith Wharton

    A collection of short novellas about New York City in the 1840s-1870s.

     

    11. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    Wow!

     

    12. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

    A+++

     

    13. Night Flight - Antoine de Saint Exupery

    Short interesting fiction book about a mail plane during wartime.

     

    14. Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton

    Short read, I'll give it a solid B.

    Something I've Learned Today

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    I learned that during the time of Alfred the Great (870s), there was a part of England that was known as the 5 boroughs, it was controled by the Danes. I live in NYC and we have 5 boroughs. Now was that intentional? Did they break it up into 5 boroughs to follow what was done so many years ago, or was it just a coincidence? Sometimes there are more questions!! :D

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