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    Rory Gilmore's Book List Challenge

    in Reading Challenges

    Posted · Edited by CaliLily

    It's been a bit quiet in here the last couple months. I was going to see if anyone would be up for reading a 'Rory' book in November with me and if so, any suggestions? I was thinking of maybe doing Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Crucible by Arthur Miller or The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Lately I've been thinking about some of the old books we read in school and how they were good, but rushed. Those are all three ones I'd like to go back and reread to try and savour them rather than get through them for a grade. :)

     

    Any other suggestions are most welcome!

    Abby's Reading Log (started 2009)

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    I've finally managed to go through my books and re-do my current 'owned' booklist. I haven't marked yet which ones I've read and which have yet to be, but this little project has taken me the last 12 hours (give about 5 or so for sleep and another 2ish for staring mindlessly at the computer screen). Later I'll update the ones I've already read and add a mini list of books I'm hoping to buy/read in the near future that I don't already own.

     

    Abby’s Books

     

    (Auto-) Biography

     

    The Beatles- Lewisohn

     

    Reading Lolita in Tehran- Nafisi

     

    John Lennon- The Life- Norman

     

    A Child Called ‘It’- Pelzer

     

    Prime Green- Remembering the 60’s - Stone

     

    Classics

     

    Essential Shakespeare

     

    Irish Fairy Tales

     

    The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

     

    Women and Literature (textbook containing multiple authors)

     

    Jane Eyre- Bronte

     

    The House of the Seven Gables- Hawthorne

     

    To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee

     

    Dramatic Life- Ludlow

     

    The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath

     

    Catcher in the Rye- Salinger

     

    Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare

     

    Frankenstein- Shelley

     

    The Picture of Dorian Gray- Wilde’

     

    Cookbooks

     

    The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook- Bucholz

     

    Poetry

     

    Japanese Death Poems

     

    Selected Poems of William Blake

     

    The Collective Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

     

    The Collective Poems of Emily Dickinson

     

    Essays and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emmerson

     

    Refrence

     

    American Heritage Dictionary

     

    Druid Magic

     

    The History of Witchcraft and Demonology

     

    The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Royal Britain

     

    Revision and Self Editing- Bell

     

    Romance/ Mystery/ Historical Fiction/ Other

     

    Thanks for the Memories- Ahern

     

    Warlord-Bell

     

    The Heir- Burrows

     

    Secrets of Mary Magdalene- Burstein

     

    Hero- Brooks

     

    The Reckless Surrender- Campbell

     

    Stories I Wouldn’t Tell Nobody But God- Clark

     

    A Secret Kept- de Rosnay

     

    Learning to Die in Miami- Eine

     

    A Lady’s Guide to Improper Behavior- Enoch

     

    Sun Stroked- Fox

     

    Water for Elephants- Gruen

     

    A Thousand Splendid Suns- Hosseini

     

    The Devotion of Suspect X- Higashino

     

    Seabiscuit- Hildenbrand

     

    A Kiss at Midnight- James

     

    Echoes- Jones-Gunn

     

    Filthy Shakespeare- Kiernan

     

    Traveling With Pomegranates- Kidd/Taylor

     

    The Breach- Lee

     

    God’s Guest List- Macomber

     

    The Secrets of Seduction- Mallory

     

    More Tales of the City- Maupin

     

    O. Juliet- Maxwell

     

    The Road- McCarthy

     

    A Man No More- McPhee

     

    The Heretic Queen- Michelle Moran

     

    Adam and Eve- Naslund

     

    Voice of America- Osondu

     

    Sunday at Tiffany’s- Patterson

     

    The Monster of Florence- Preston

     

    Irish Born Trilogy- Roberts

     

    Push- Sapphire

     

    The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud- Sherwood

     

    The Man Who Ate the 747- Sherwood

     

    The Lovely Bones- Sebold

     

    Dear John- Sparks

     

    Wolf Fever- Spear

     

    The Lady Elizabeth- Wein

     

    Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Paranormal

     

    Halloween Horrors (Multiple Authors)

     

    Bitten- Armstrong

     

    Doctor Who- Autonomy- Blythe

     

    The Alchemist- Coelho

     

    Wicked Appetite- Evanovich

     

    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies- Grahame- Smith

     

    House of Horror- Holzer

     

    First Grave on the Right- Jones

     

    Shadow Bound- Kellison

     

    Shadow Fall- Kellison

     

    Through the Faerie Glass- Klein

     

    The Historian- Kostova

     

    Ghost Country- Lee

     

    The Next Queen of Heaven- Maguire

     

    Doctor Who- The Glamour Chase- Russell

     

    Born to Bite- Sands

     

    Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers- Tolkien

     

    YA Fiction

     

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1- 3 stories (Multiple Authors)

     

    Brightly Woven- Bracken

     

    Glass Houses- Caine

     

    Clockwork Angel- Clare

     

    Hunger Games- Collins

     

    Revolution- Donnely

     

    Inkheart- Funke

     

    Nightlight- The Harvard Lampoon

     

    Heavenly- Laurens

     

    A Wrinkle in Time- L’Engle

     

    The Mermaid’s Mirror- Madigan

     

    Once a Witch- McCullough

     

    Evermore- Alyson Noel

     

    If I Should Die Before I Wake- Nolan

     

    Before I Fall- Oliver

     

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- Rowling

     

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- Rowling

     

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Rowling

     

    The Forest of Hands and Teeth- Ryan

     

    The Book Thief- Zusak

     

     

    Your Book Activity Today ~ Thread 13

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted · Edited by CaliLily

    The Mermaid's Mirror is turning out to be a very quick read so last night I borrowed Oogy by Larry Levin from our work stash. If any of you read Dewey (the library cat) and liked it you'd probably like Oogy, too. It's about a dog that was being used as a dog fighting target and survived. He lost an ear and got pretty beaten up, making him look 'ugly' (Oogy, his name, is a play on ugly). The book is written by the family who adopted him.

    Your Book Activity Today ~ Thread 13

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted · Edited by CaliLily

    I gave up reading Fallen by Lauren Kate because her writing was just not very good. The story had potential but it seemed like she was just rambling on for ages trying to fill a word count quota. Tonight I started The Mermaid's Mirror by L.K. Madigan and it is very good so far, I'm only one chapter in and am loving the story (and the writing). :)

    Your Book Activity Today ~ Thread 13

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted

    Ooh, a new Gregory Maguire! What's it about?

     

    Here's the blurb. It sound really interesting.

     

    Maguire, who made a name for himself with bestselling fantasy books like Wicked, delivers a sharp, funny, and provocative dual coming-of-age story set in 1999 upstate New York, focusing on obnoxious 17-year-old Tabitha Scales, and Jeremy Carr, a musician and director of the local Catholic church choir. Tabitha becomes the caretaker of her devoutly Protestant mother, Leontina, after she takes a nasty bump on the head and transforms into a foul-mouthed, helpless stranger. Jeremy, meanwhile, hopes an upcoming music gig in New York City will give him what it takes to leave Thebes--and former flame Willem Handelaers, now happily married with children--in the past. Jeremy's longing for Willem is heartbreakingly conveyed, as is Tabitha's rushed maturity and yearning for a man she later learns is engaged to a woman in Jeremy's choir. In conversations and their inner lives, Maguire's characters philosophize about faith, religion, acceptance, and desire in a way that never feels forced or preachy, and though cutesy at times, Maguire's humor buoys the darker story lines and keeps this winning story on track. (Oct.)

     

     

    Pets ~ Part Two

    in General Chat

    Posted

    This morning we had to put our dog, Cap to sleep.

     

    His gastroenteritis hadn't properly cleared up, and he was really sluggish for this morning's walk, despite having been full of beans yesterday. The vet did a blood test that strongly suggested a tumour. An x-ray and scan later and it was confirmed, there were a number of them, and they were nasty ones. There was nothing that could be done, so we cuddled him and told hom how much we loved him, and the terrific vet gently injected him.

     

    At the moment we are pretty much torn up. The chasm that his sudden loss has created will take a long while to heal. This abused and frightened dog came to live with us 4 1/2 years ago and all these years later he had developed into a social, cheeky and mostly calm (as a Border Collie he was a natural fretter!) dog. We are reassured that he knew in his last years that he was safe and very much loved.

     

    friends0.gif I just saw this and am so sorry, Chrissy. It's so hard to lose a pet because they are our family. I'm glad that Cap isn't suffering and that his passing was a peaceful one. empathy.gif

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