hfeldman is currently reading Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
I’m female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since April 21, 2010. My reading interests include mystery, classics, religion, and children.
Books
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 8% complete
- Poems Every Child Should Know finished
- Leaves of Grass finished
- Just So Stories finished
- The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories finished
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes finished
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes finished
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes finished
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue finished
- The Purloined Letter finished
- The Red-Headed League finished
- The Picture of Dorian Gray finished
- Grimm's Fairy Tales finished
- Andersen's Fairy Tales finished
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My Antonia finished
Posts
Question of the Week - Choose One Book for the Next Generation
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster.
Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?
whimsy. it's a delight to say!
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Would all of our portraits end like Dorian's?
I rather think Dorian saw his life and his soul as an experiment. The changing of the portrait was a curiosity, and it made him wonder how he could change it. It's a sick fascination, and I think the portrait drove him to do vile things just to see what exactly they would do to his soul. Would one act be more severe to his picture than another?
My Antonia - Works Well in Installments
The book is written in vignettes, which is good for reading in emails. There was a lot of description and set-up at first, which I find a bit dull, but Willa Cather managed to show the landscape, one I've never been to, very realistically. Admittedly, My Antonia doesn't quite have a plot, but each installment adds more richness to the pleasant story.