dlarson is currently reading Poem-a-Day Collection.
I’m 61 years old, female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since December 19, 2008. My reading interests include mystery, history, and historical fiction.
Books
- Poem-a-Day Collection 100% complete
- Ailsa Paige finished
- Under the Lilacs finished
- A Moment of Wrong Thinking finished
- The Intellectual Devotional II finished
- The Intellectual Devotional finished
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles finished
- 1632 finished
- White Horse finished
- Happiness Quotations finished
- Howards End finished
- The Ghost in the Pantry finished
- Someone Will Be With You Shortly finished
- Words That Matter from O, The Oprah Magazine finished
- Villette finished
- The Adventure of the Empty House finished
- Heroes For My Son finished
- Kaplan SAT Prep Program finished
- Highway 152 by Sam Shepard finished
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town finished
- Little Brother finished
- Promissory Payback finished
- You're Only as Sick as Your Secrets finished
- The Moonstone finished
- Anonymous finished
- The Age of Innocence finished
- You Can't Judge a Book by its Cover finished
- An Unfinished Death finished
- Abbe Mouret's Transgression finished
- The Seagull finished
- The Magnificent Ambersons finished
- Paranoia finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Famous Architects finished
- Anna Karenina finished
- Daisy Miller finished
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself finished
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles finished
- Under the Greenwood Tree finished
- My Antonia finished
- Agnes Grey finished
- The Brothers Karamazov suspended
- Lorna Doone suspended
- The Princess of Cleves suspended
- The Little Big Things by Tom Peters suspended
- Overclocked suspended
- Berlitz DailyLit Spanish Lessons suspended
- The Bostonians suspended
- Women in Love suspended
- Madame de Staël suspended
- Cousin Betty suspended
- Babbitt suspended
- Wikipedia Tour: The Roaring 20s suspended
- Madame Bovary suspended
- A Room with a View suspended
Posts
Question of the Week - 10 Must-Read Classic Books
My Antonia
Reader Challenges - Heads or Tails!
The beauty of the sparkling comet tails belied the terrible tragedy about to fall on their heads.
Reader Challenges - Shaking Up Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a global warming?
Thou art more hot and melt the glacier
Of my unseemly and icy heart.
Question of the Week - Snow Day!
An ice storm in Memphis. Electricity gone! Huddling my two children into the den with the fireplace and coming up with creative ways to stay warm and cook things in the fire. Finding non-electric entertainments, feeling the excitement of wondering what was going to happen. Listening to ice cracking with loud pops as it fell. Cut off from the busy world, we found our ingenuity and resilience came in handy. But there was a time limit on the utopia. After a week we were ready to kill each other.
Reader Challenges - DailyLit Slogan
The little Lit that could. (I think I can read, I think I can read)
Reader Challenges - DailyLit Slogan
Come on Baby, lit my laptop (with apologies to The Doors)
Reader Challenges - DailyLit Slogan
A little Lit goes a long way
Reader Challenges - DailyLit Slogan
Just say no to ill-lit
Reader Challenges - DailyLit Slogan
A good day to get lit.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #69: Books on Tumblr
There is already a Tumblebooks site for kids.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #69: Books on Tumblr
There is already a Tumblebooks site for kids.
Reader Challenges - Before I die...
Learn to enjoy life without regrets.
Reader Challenges - Encounter with an Angel
I sat restlessly in my pew and wondered why I was there. I always showed up, recited, sang and responded, but without knowing what I believed. Where’ s the mystical experience? Oh well, Amen, another Sunday done. Out I go. Then the painted angel sneaked a smile and I knew.
Reader Challenges - Summer Vacation in Six Words
Soaked up new title of grandmother.
Reader Challenges - Summer Love in One Sentence
Under the pavilion, he came at twilight and took my hand, as if a rare jewel, and cherished it.
Etc. - 50 Word Challenge
I taught him in fourth grade. Cute kid, polite, big smile. What’s not to like? Here now, grown up. “Mrs. Larson?” “ Franklin, how are you?” “Great, I’m a lawyer now.” Still a cute kid, big smile. I had a hand in that success. What’s not to like?
Etc. - 50 Word Challenge
Aghast, I stared at the disaster in front of me. How could this happen? I planned so carefully. The party guests arrived in good cheer, The food emerged from ovens and fridges looking delectable and festive. I just forgot to put the snake away. Oh well, one less lap dog.