About Me

I am an avid reader and have been since I can remember. It all started with Dr. Suess Fox in Sox. I am always reading something any chance I can get.

My BookLists

• To-Read (8)
  • Can Such Things Be?
    by Bierce, Ambrose
  • War and Peace
    by Tolstoy, Leo
  • A Christmas Carol
    by Dickens, Charles
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
  • The Arabian Nights
    by Anonymous
  • Les Miserables
    by Hugo, Victor
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
    by Dumas, Alexandre
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Browse BookLists

• Madame Bovary 40% complete
• Tales of the Jazz Age finished
• Pride and Prejudice finished
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow finished
• Frankenstein finished
• Natural Light finished
• Famous Modern Ghost Stories finished
• Fashion Classics finished
• Dracula finished
• The Communist Manifesto finished
• Caesar and Cleopatra finished
• The Beautiful and Damned finished

  I liked Gatsby better. I enjoyed reading this novel but must say that I enjoyed Fitzgerald's Gatsby much, much more. I think the characters in Gatsby were much more relatable, though still tragic. Though I started out not really liking the character Gloria, I actually was more empathetic to her than Anthony toward the end. This was a depressing story but also a good lesson in going after life and not just waiting for things to happen to you. I posted this on 30 December 2010
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• Madame de Staël finished
• Anna Karenina finished

  classic lit but very long I wanted to read this because it is a significant part of classic literature and I have never read any Tolstoy. It was quite long but I appreciated the detail that Tolstoy put into the descriptions of, well, everything. I really identified with the character of Levin, as I'm often fighting myself on my own personal philosophy of life. I feel very accomplished that I got through the book and look forward to conquering other works by Tolstoy. I posted this on 16 December 2009
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• The Life Plan finished

  Motivating but not life-changing I got motivated by reading this book and was given good ideas but many of them did not pertain to my personal situation. I have read a few motivational type books and this was a decent one. I posted this on 16 December 2009
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Question of the Week - Favorite Banned Books

Alice in Wonderland

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The Beautiful and Damned - I liked Gatsby better.

I enjoyed reading this novel but must say that I enjoyed Fitzgerald's Gatsby much, much more. I think the characters in Gatsby were much more relatable, though still tragic. Though I started out not really liking the character Gloria, I actually was more empathetic to her than Anthony toward the end. This was a depressing story but also a good lesson in going after life and not just waiting for things to happen to you.

I posted this topic 2 years ago. Reply (1)

Anna Karenina - classic lit but very long

I wanted to read this because it is a significant part of classic literature and I have never read any Tolstoy. It was quite long but I appreciated the detail that Tolstoy put into the descriptions of, well, everything. I really identified with the character of Levin, as I'm often fighting myself on my own personal philosophy of life. I feel very accomplished that I got through the book and look forward to conquering other works by Tolstoy.

I posted this topic 3 years ago. Reply (1)

The Life Plan - Motivating but not life-changing

I got motivated by reading this book and was given good ideas but many of them did not pertain to my personal situation. I have read a few motivational type books and this was a decent one.

I posted this topic 3 years ago. Replies (0)