shinysocks is not currently reading any books.
I’m female, from Netherlands. I’ve been a DailyLit member since June 05, 2008. My reading interests include Classics, Humor, and Comedy.
Books
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Andersen's Fairy Tales finished
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The Golden Goose finished
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30 Stories in 30 Days finished
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A Moment of Wrong Thinking finished
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The Woman in White finished
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience finished
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The Intellectual Devotional II finished
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The Intellectual Devotional finished
- Man and Superman finished
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Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer finished
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Words That Matter from O, The Oprah Magazine finished
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Heroes For My Son finished
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Crazy Busy Beautiful finished
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151 Best Movies You've Never Seen by Leonard Maltin finished
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Someone Will Be With You Shortly finished
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"Fiction" by Alice Munro finished
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A Christmas Carol finished
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue finished
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The Book of the Shepherd finished
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The Gift of the Magi finished
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The Tell-Tale Heart finished
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Around the World in 80 Days finished
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Organizing the Disorganized Child finished
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow finished
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Hell-Heaven finished
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Crime and Punishment finished
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Wikipedia Tour: Best Picture Oscar Winners finished
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button finished
- College Knowledge: 101 Tips finished
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A Woman of No Importance finished
- Berlitz DailyLit Spanish Lessons suspended
- Heart of Darkness suspended
- Walden suspended
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Bartleby the Scrivener unread
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde unread
Posts
Question of the Week - 10 Must-Read Classic Books
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Question of the Week - Painting Your Portrait
This is a very difficult one to answer! I am currently very enamored with British Pre-Raphaelite painters like John William Waterhouse, Frederic Leighton and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. But I am also very fond of French Impressionists like Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet.
Argh! Choices, choices, choices...
Reader Challenges - Your Words That Matter
Everything will be alright in the end. If it isn't, then it is not the end.
