angelicmobster8 is not currently reading any books.
I’m 22 years old, female, from Canada. I’ve been a DailyLit member since August 03, 2009. My reading interests include Anything.
Books
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Tales of the Jazz Age finished
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The Picture of Dorian Gray finished
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Jane Eyre finished
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Beowulf finished
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Andersen's Fairy Tales finished
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow finished
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater finished
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The Metamorphosis finished
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The Turn of the Screw finished
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde finished
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The Importance of Being Earnest finished
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The Time Machine finished
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A Christmas Carol finished
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My Antonia finished
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The Jungle Book finished
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Frankenstein finished
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Nicholas Nickleby finished
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Paradise Lost finished
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz finished
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Ozma of Oz finished
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The Marvelous Land of Oz finished
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz finished
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Persuasion finished
- A Tale of Two Cities suspended
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War of the Worlds unread
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Romeo and Juliet unread
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Hamlet unread
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Through the Looking-Glass unread
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland unread
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The Secret Garden unread
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The Phantom of the Opera unread
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Pride and Prejudice unread
Posts
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Loved it
I loved how even though it was a dark subject and some chapters were very creepy, it still had sort of a witty style like his plays. Chapter 11 and 13 were my favourites. 11, because it was full of seriously decadant sentences. Even words I didn't know the meaning of sounded so beautiful. 13 because it made the book more creepy than I had expected.
Jane Eyre - One of the BEST
Just finished reading Jane Eyre and I loved it. Enjoyed Brontes writing much more than Austens.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #61: Joycean Challenges
On Daily Lit: Paradise Lost
Offline: Catch-22. It should have been easy but things kept delaying me from finishing it. It took such a long time.
Also, "A Time to Kill" by John Grisham, maybe I'm just not into that type of genre.
Andersen's Fairy Tales - Review
I had known that some fairy tales were meant to scare children out of doing things, so sometimes the characters died or something, but some of these fairy tales are rather depressing. I still like them though. This read does not include some of HCA's famous stories like: The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Ugly Duckling, but I'm sure they can easily be found.
The Time Machine - Anyone else reading The Time Machine?
Just finished reading it. I liked it a lot better than "War of the Worlds".
Paradise Lost - Very difficult language
I've had some trouble with it too. The parts with Adam and Eve are a little easier to understand, but then he gets to the Greek mythology and it throws me off.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - OZ
I think my fifth grade teacher read this to us when he was the Tin Man in a stage production. Since then, I have been getting bits of plot mixed up with "Return to Oz" from the eighties. I am glad I got to read it for myself, and I want to read the other books. I wish I had them when I was little.
Romeo and Juliet - Read it in ninth grade
I should probably read it again, I'm not sure whether or not we finished it. Although Romeo and Juliet annoy me sometimes, it's filled with wonderful (yes, I'm going to use this overused word) prose. Even when I was 13, I thought Mercutio was super cool. I should probably read "Hamlet" again also, because the teacher had us read the "easier modern" version, which is stupid.
Hamlet - 2nd review? Seriously?
Liked it way more than "Romeo & Juliet". It's hard for me to feel sorry for the couple. I think Ophelia is much more deserving for sympathy. Totally reccommend "Hamlet" for great monologues and backstabbing, etc. Read it in eleventh grade English, I think I was the only student who enjoyed it.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #41: Back to School
In 8th grade there was "The Outsiders" of course. My 5th grade teacher read us the first three "Harry Potter" books and "Wizard of Oz" out loud, in one year. I think we also read either "Matilda" or "James and the Giant Peach" in that same 5th grade class. In grade four maybe, we read a book called "Bunnicula" about an evil rabbit or something. In highschool we read: Catcher and the Rye, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Great Gatsby, etc. I think we were supposed to read "To Kill A Mockingbird" in grade ten, but that teacher was so incompetant. We did read a couple of books, but never finished them.
The Phantom of the Opera - Yay, first review
I loved this book, and everything related to it. It's translated from French, I probably would have gotten much more from it if I understood French and read the book the way it was originally published.
I love how the book is written as if Leroux were documenting a case. I don't know if the footnotes are added with the installments.
I read it while in the hospital, made it much more tolerable. I also reccomend Susan Kays book, though it's not on this website.