eleftarea is currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo and Shoes, Bags, and Tiaras.
I’m 27 years old, female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since January 05, 2009. My reading interests include Contemporary, Classics, Sci Fi, Essays, Art, and Short Stories.
Books
- Poems by Emily Dickinson 5% complete
- Shoes, Bags, and Tiaras 100% complete
- The Count of Monte Cristo 64% complete
- Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer finished
- Hell-Heaven finished
- Frankenstein finished
- Young Goodman Brown finished
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button finished
- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations) suspended
- The Picture of Dorian Gray suspended
- Just So Stories suspended
Posts
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #33: Go International
Victor Hugo. Les Miserables made me the reader that I am.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #32: Guilty Pleasures
Also known as "cotton candy" reading... I too indulged in Twilight as a guilty pleasure. Anything that combines magical realism, romance, and a happy ending is cotton candy. "A Girls Guide to Witchcraft" is another book that falls into this category...
Etc. - Question of the Week #18:"Liberty or Death!"
it may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! away with lamentation! away with elegies and dirges! away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! let the dead eat the dead. let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. but a dance!
- henry miller
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #8: Which books make good movies?
THE BEST: Contact (so excellent); The Shawshank Redemption (actually one of the few movies that is better than the book!); Stardust; Brideshead Revisited (the mini-series); Memiors of a Geisha; October Sky (which was Rocket Boys in print).
THE WORST: Les Miserables (the one with Liam Neisen...I honestly don't think the screenwriter read the book...).
This movie resides alone in the deepest circle of cross-over hell.