Lolabean is not currently reading any books.
I’m 33 years old, female, from Canada. I’ve been a DailyLit member since January 06, 2009.
Books
- A Room with a View finished
- Berlitz DailyLit Spanish Lessons finished
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Grimm's Fairy Tales finished
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finished
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"Fiction" by Alice Munro finished
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Villette finished
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Andersen's Fairy Tales finished
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Fetching Raymond finished
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Hell-Heaven finished
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The Locket finished
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The Tell-Tale Heart finished
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Antigone finished
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How the Camel got His Hump finished
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom finished
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue finished
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Hansel and Gretel finished
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Madame de Staël finished
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A Christmas Carol finished
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The Bootstrapper's Bible finished
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Art of Money Getting finished
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My Antonia finished
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow finished
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The Little Match Girl finished
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles finished
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Beyond Good and Evil finished
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The Metamorphosis finished
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The Butterfly that Stamped finished
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2BRO2B finished
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The Twelve Dancing Princesses finished
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The Age of Innocence finished
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button finished
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth finished
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A Tale of Two Cities finished
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The Yellow Wallpaper finished
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Daddy Long Legs finished
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Pride and Prejudice finished
- Sense and Sensibility suspended
Posts
Ideas - Category
@susan I think you mean Jane Austen's Emma. :)
I believe Bridget Jone's diary (both the book and the movie) are loosely based on Pride and Prejudice. Also, the fun Bollywood movie Bride and Prejudice.
O Brother, Where Art Though? is based on Homer's The Odyssey.
Reader Challenges - 10 Word Summer Memories
Gorgeous beach in Mexico, stack of books, and ice-cold beer!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #75: Happy Bloomsday!
I'll second the vote for Hermione. I would also love to trace the steps of Lyra and Will from the Golden Compass books; visit different worlds, ride an armoured bear, meet witches, battle evil. Sounds fabulous!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #76: Summer Literary Romance
My absolute favourite type of vacation is one on a beach with a huge stack of books. I can easily lounge all day by the beach or pool reading away, day after day. My idea of heaven!
A couple years ago my husband and I went to the Mayan Riviera for 16 days and the stack of books I brought lasted me only a week. I ended up going through several books that were in the hotel's book swap area that I would not normally have read (ie crime thrillers) and really enjoyed them.
However, this summer I am prepared. I will be bringing my Sony e-Reader with me, chock full of more books than I could possibly read in a week!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #73: Summer Reading Lists
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- A whole pile of trashy chick lit during my week on the beach!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #67: Leading Roles
I would love The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield to be made into a movie. I think Emily Blunt would be great as the bookish biographer Margaret Lea and Judi Dench would be amazing as the reclusive novelist Vida Winter.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #68: Autobiographies
I recently read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and really enjoyed it. Reading about her childhood, growing up in extreme poverty with an alcoholic father and depressed mother made me really appreciate how much I have in life and how much I take for granted.
Villette - Unlikeable Lucy
I enjoyed this book and the various twists and turns of the story, however, I found it extremely difficult to warm up to the character Lucy. Although I understand that her nature was to be private and standoffish, she at times appeared to be rude and unfriendly, certainly not someone I would befriend in real life.
Reader Challenges - Before I die...
Try a little bit of everything.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #64: First Lines
I've never read it but this one made me laugh:
"It was the day my grandmother exploded."
-The Road, Iain Banks
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #63: Remakes
I didn't really like the Mel Gibson remake of Hamlet but I absolutely loved Kenneth Branagh's version.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Great story, so-so ending
I really got caught up in this story. I loved the technical jargon and Julius' descent into paranoia, but the ending kind of felt flat to me. The plot seemed to be building up to a huge cataclysmic climax but it sort of just quietly wrapped itself up. Not at all what I was expecting.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Beautifully Tragic
Hardy's descriptions of the English countryside are beautiful, if a bit wordy, and his characters are reasonably well developed with varying flaws. Tess, herself, is a truly pitiable character with more than her share of hardships but her quiet acceptance of life's troubles and her passionate, enduring love for Angel are what makes the story so remarkable.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #59: Authors Speak
I would love to hear Oscar Wilde speak.
Madame de Staël - Interesting
This biography is intriguing, if a bit abrupt. I think the conversational tone adds a more human quality to the descriptions of Germaine's over the top personality. However, her charisma just doesn't seem to translate well into the written word and I can't imagine how anyone would put up with (much less adore) someone as overbearing and ridiculous as her. Her continual use of emotional blackmail and threats of suicide get tiresome and her greatly inflated sense of self-importance was laughable. It may well be that without actually meeting her one cannot truly understand and appreciate her dramatic nature, I certainly can't.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #58: What I Like About You
@cresswga - If you go into your book list, at the very top is a check box with the option to start your next selection automatically. I don't like to have my next subscription start without my input so I turned off that feature.
My suggestion to Daily Lit would be to not have that feature enabled by default and make the managing of it a little more obvious, like not hidden in the book list but on the main settings page.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #57: New Year's Resolutions
To finish reading all of the books I have purchased in the past but never read. I have a huge stack of them by my bed but I keep buying new ones and reading them first!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #56: Looking Back on 2009
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #54: Happy Birthday Ms. Austen
A laptop and flannel PJs for writing in.
Reader Challenges - Encounter with an Angel
Silent and ominous, his dark form lurked behind me, closer now than ever. It had been years since I had paid him much attention but I felt the time drawing nearer. I looked back once more and Death stretched out his hand and said "Come, my friend, it is time."
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #3: Which books scare you?
I second the vote for 1984. The evil omnipotent Big Brother is a lot scarier (and more plausible) than a headless horseman!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #46: Childhood Favorites
I loved Enid Blyton when I was growing up and still reread some of my favourites from time to time.
@cresswga - My mother was born in England and she saved me all of her Enid Blyton books from her childhood so I'm not sure if they were available in book stores in Canada at the time. None of my classmates had heard of her.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #44: Best Banned Books
For now I would say 1984 but there are so many books in that list that I am planning on reading. If I didn't know any better I would say that list looks more like a "must read" book list than a "banned books" list. :)
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #43: Writers and Rockers
I've thought about and I can't honestly say that I have ever related any song to an author or book. The closest I can think of is The Lord of the Rings and the beautiful scores that were in the movie, but then am I not relating the music to the movie and not the book?
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #39: Paper vs. Pixels
I only read DailyLit at work where I am on the computer all day writing code, so its a fabulous way to break up my day by reading a bit here and there, although I can't completely lose myself in the book the way I could at home.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #14: Books You Hate
Just remembered another book I absolutely hated, A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. What a pile of garbage. Regardless of the controversy of whether or not it was as autobiographical as originally claimed, it was the most poorly written, over-hyped piece of junk I have ever read. The story was not interesting, the characters were totally unlikeable, especially the narcissistic James, and the longest sentence had about 10 words, most had 1 or 2. Wow. Look. I can write. Like that. Revolutionary!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #37: Where to?
Definitely Hogwarts! :)
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #38: Books on Repeat
The book that I have read the most times (although not in the last few years) is The Island Keeper by Harry Mazer. The incredible transformation of the main character from spoiled rich girl into a strong determined woman capable of survival under the most extreme conditions remains one of the most inspiring stories of the strength of the human spirit I have ever read.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #35: Literary Friends
For best friend I would definitely say Elizabeth Bennet, although I could easily make up a great group of girlfriends from Austen's other heroines!
For the worst I would say Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights, she was a nasty piece of work.
Etc. - Question of the Week #16: Favorite Female Writers
I grew up reading Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie and loved them both. I couldn't say I have any particular favourite female writes, but one I have recently read that stood out for me was The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Her writing is amazing, a Gothic mystery reminiscent of the Bronte sisters but with richer prose. Anyone who is a fan of Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights would definitely enjoy it.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #14: Books You Hate
I absolutely hated Love in the Time of Cholera. None of the characters were likeable at all, it contained some really bizarre and disturbing story elements (suicides and paedophilia), and the pinnacle of the story is that the two main characters who were then old, and suffering from bowel related issues, finally make love. I cannot believe this book is so highly rated. Ughh.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #32: Guilty Pleasures
The Sookie Stackhouse series was supposed to be my summer guilty pleasure but I'm on the second book and find them to be quite boring. I think I will end up taking a break from them and instead read World Without End, the follow up to Pillars of the Earth, which I absolutely loved.
Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography
Just another brain in a vat.
Etc. - Question of the Week #18:"Liberty or Death!"
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing." -Oscar Wilde
I love Oscar Wilde, I think he's one of the most quotable figures in literature. Another great quote from him:
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
Etc. - 50 Word Challenge
Waiting nervously outside the door, too stressed to notice anything but the sound of my pounding heart, I bite my lip and take a deep breath to try to calm myself. Then it is my turn to step forward, slowly and deliberately, to the end of the aisle. I do.
2BRO2B - Great!
What a fabulously twisted story.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Disappointing
I really didn't enjoy this book as much as I had hoped to. I found the main character (Henry) to be one of the most irritating characters I have ever come across in literature. To call him melodramatic is the understatement of the century. I also found the other characters to be extremely flat and uninteresting.