spectrekitty
Female 50 from USA
Home on web at http://spectrekitty.stumbleupon.com
Interested in Classics science fiction French
About Me:
French-speaking Black Belt grandma, raising my second generation of kids, and my nth generation of cats. I live by night...
French-speaking Black Belt grandma, raising my second generation of kids, and my nth generation of cats. I live by night...
DailyLit Reading:
The Fall of the House of Usher finished
The Magnificent Ambersons finished
The Devil's Dictionary finished
Utopia finished
Daisy Miller finished
My Antonia finished
The Fall of the House of Usher finished
The Magnificent Ambersons finished
The Devil's Dictionary finished
Utopia finished
Daisy Miller finished
My Antonia finished
Posts and Reviews:
In French - Merci Beaucoup - posted last year
Wow! Now we have books in French - I love it!I second kaizen in saying a hearty "Merci beaucoup!"
The Magnificent Ambersons - Just finished! - posted last year
I just finished "The Magnificent Ambersons." It was a great book - which, I guess, ALL the books here are. But it was one of the more enjoyable books I've read here. I guess it ties with "My Antonía" by Willa Cather.I'd like to discuss it with anyone else who's read it!
Book Requests - Growth Trilogy, Booth Tarkington - posted last year
I just finished reading "The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington, and I enjoyed it immensely!According to Wikipedia, it is a part of a trilogy by Tarkington, the other two novels being "The Turmoil" (1915) and "The Midlander" (1923, retitled "National Avenue" in 1927).
I would really love to read these novels, also - it would "complete" me!! : )
Book Requests - How about some Horatio Alger? - posted last year
Thanks!Book Requests - Sir THomas Malary's "Le Morte d'Arthur" - posted last year
Hey, I'd read it!!Book Requests - How about some Horatio Alger? - posted last year
Don't know if he's beyond the copyright issue...Sounds like a good idea, though!
Book Requests - How about some Horatio Alger? - posted last year
I've read so much about him - it seems there's always someone in books I'm reading who is reading him!I know he sparked the dreams of many an American boy...
My Antonia - My Antonia - just starting - posted last year
What can I say? It just keeps getting better and better! : )My Antonia - Land - posted last year
I, too, found the metaphor of the land to be most meaningful. I'm reading my 4th book through Daily Lit, but I think this is the one I enjoyed the most!Utopia - Utopian Terminology - posted last year
If you could tell me the edition & publisher, I'd appreciate it...My Antonia - Cather's a Buddhist! - posted last year
Interesting observation!Ideas - Critical Works Online (free ones!) - posted last year
Wow, everything I tried to look at has "Restricted Access" or is a pay site.Some of them say they can only be accessed at your public library. That's kind of the point of being online, is you don't have to go anywhere...
Guess I'd better pay up my fine & go to the library! : )
(I was going to do it, anyway...)
Oh, the MonkeyNotes site was not restricted.
Book Requests - Ira Levin - posted last year
Any chance of getting anything by Ira Levin, or is he too recent an author?"This Perfect Day" is excellent. I've never read "Rosemary's Baby." He's done some other things too, some of them fairly obscure.
Ideas - Organize by length - posted last year
Ooh, what a good idea!Ideas - Critical Works Online (free ones!) - posted last year
Thanks, all!Book Requests - Oz books - posted last year
I'd love to read the Oz books - my mother grew up on them.Book Requests - Frank Duff's "Lysergically Yours" - posted last year
Ooh, I would DEFINITELY read that!!My Antonia - My Antonia - posted last year
Oh, I did that, too. Sometimes, a book will start a little slowly - not that this one did - and, as you get further into it, you become more anxious to see how things turn out!Ideas - book description - posted last year
Oh, I like cresswga's idea!Help - How Many? - posted last year
Can you subscribe to more than one book at a time? (Not a bunch, but maybe two, for different moods?)My Antonia - My Antonia - posted last year
Ooh, that was my first book on Daily Lit.com, and I loved it!Just wait till you find out why the Russian brothers are personae non gratae (sp.?) - it's chilling! (Gave me nightmares...)
Ideas - book description - posted last year
Oh, it already does that! (Show a blurb if you click on the title...)Ideas - Critical Works Online (free ones!) - posted last year
When I would read a book from the library, after I finished it, I'd go check out some critical works on it.After I read "Daisy Miller" here, I was unable to find any free critical essays of it online. I think this is one thing the Internet is missing!
Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to find critical works on most anything without having to pay?
Also, I relied quite a bit on Harold Bloom's books. Any opinions on him?
The Devil's Dictionary - Wrong category - posted last year
Cool. I think that's what I'll read next.Help - Do the Forums Support HTML? - posted last year
Well, that's my question. : )Utopia - Utopian Terminology - posted last year
I'm just about to finish Thomas More's "Utopia." I greatly enjoy dystopian literature, and have wanted for a long time to read the "grandfather" of this genre.I have to say that it's pretty dry, but I've enjoyed it overall, and would welcome any others to read & discuss it.
Anyway, I'm somewhat intrigued by More's coining of terms for the magistrates, priests, etc. I know he borrows heavily from Greek, and the origin of U- (a pun on "eu," meaning "well or good" and "no place") and -topos ("place"). But I've Googled some of the other terms, and come up with nothing, except the occasional blogger who's obviously read & admired "Utopia," and uses one of these terms as a screen name.
Anyway, at some point, I hope to see in this Forum that someone else has read it, and we can have a meaningful discussion of it! Thanks!
Ideas - book description - posted last year
I agree, but I like to see just the titles at first, so I think you should have to click on the title to see its synopsis - unless, of course, that would run into too much in terms of bandwidth cost!As for me, I don't really mind looking stuff up on Google, and for the time being, I'm familiar with most of the titles here.