dreamdust is currently reading Shoes, Bags, and Tiaras and Madame de Staël.
I’m from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since May 22, 2009. My reading interests include poetry/history/biography.
Books
- Madame de Staël 55% complete
- Shoes, Bags, and Tiaras 94% complete
- Hell-Heaven finished
- Paranoia finished
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Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations) suspended
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Essays suspended
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Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant suspended
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself suspended
- Who is Mark Twain? suspended
- Masters of Verse suspended
- Up from Slavery suspended
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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman unread
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Thanks, for all your efforts on my behalf and my antique computer :) by the way how much is it to sponser a book for a year on this site? In case any of us win the lotto.
Bugs - finished to suspend?
No, I definitely finished.
Bugs - finished to suspend?
All of them should say finished, except Tristram Shandy (which was previously read but not on this site). And the ones I'm currently reading of course.
Bugs - finished to suspend?
Some of my books that I had finished just went to suspend on their own, could you check? Thanks
Shoes, Bags, and Tiaras - Guilty pleasure
Yes, I agree. I'm learning things too. For those who do not speak French (like me) Lame mon esclavage icy est mon secret translates to: I love my slavery and here is my secret. This is Marie Antoinette's motto and ties in nicely to the Madame de Stael book if you're reading it.
Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations) - Quotations
Like potato chips or peanuts you can't read just one...
Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer - Author??
Did you enjoy it? It is one of my favorites.
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I'm calling it the curse of the tiaras, as the photos do not come up on the tiara installments (6-9 and 9-12) all the photos showed-up on the other installments. Any helpful tips are most welcome. On my end I reset my installments to daily since this is ongoing, but that is the only change I've made.
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XP, Outlook 2003-thanks
Book Requests - Churchill and Roosevelt
There is only 1 selection for Churchill and none for Roosevelt. I'd love to see more selections for Churchill and anything for Eleanor and Teddy and Franklin.
Ideas - Members with the most books?
I'm curious about the number of books read also. Perhaps those people could do a top 10 review, so the rest of us could benefit from their reading experience?
Michel de Montaigne - Montaigne
When reading the essays, he keeps referring to being in the 40's as old age and his take on the decay of the body as one ages was both sad/funny. Also made me think in regard to medicine and aging and attitudes, somethings haven't changed all that much since the 1500's.
Bugs - In the author forum
Thanks for your response in-depth, very helpful.
Bugs - 17 authors
Thanks, I finally got it.
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It was 6-9 Tiaras: Love and Marriage-no photo. I see bookwormnik in book & reviews forum mentions no photos also. I'm using a computer/Windows it has just been 1 time for no photo for me. But there is a resend issue, as I thought well I'll just resend it the next day before I bothered you. And it would not resend the last installment, but send all previous ones. So ?!
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Is there someone at the Victoria & Albert that we can give feedback to or do we do that via your site? Today I had no photo, where one should have been and although I know this is new, there do seem to be some glitches. Thanks
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On the on-going reads (like Shoes, Bags and Tiaras) I'm confused at first I saw 5 installments and then nothing. Are they indefinitely ongoing?
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #47: Words to Live By
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainity is absurb. Voltaire
Bugs - 17 authors
There would be more if people could figure out how to post a new author. I'd like to post Montaigne but do not see a way to do so.
Essays - Essays of Montaigne
A marathon that crept, stumbled, staggered and leapt, twirled and whirled-what an experience!
Bugs - In the author forum
where do you post a new author?
DailyLit Selects - Ideas for Book Excerpts in DailyLit Selects
A new one that sounds like a good read-Goddess of the Market, the life of Ayn Rand.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #46: Childhood Favorites
Hands down, its Charlotte's Web for me.
Reader Challenges - Tea with the Queen
The Queen was NOT amused, as her tea party split to pieces, because Dr. Jekyll could not constrain Mr. Hyde.
Shoes, Bags, and Tiaras - Ideas for DailyLit Style
Chanel, of course with the new movie coming-out...
Essays - Essays
I'm at 80% and it is fascinating, so an encouraging note for the beginning readers-hang in there.
Bugs - Resend issue
Perfect and a fast fix, many thanks again.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
Some of the best books ever written, have been written in prison, what is your favorite book written in prison? Example: 1669- No Cross, No Crown by William Penn
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #43: Writers and Rockers
People Are Strange/the Doors=Edgar Allan Poe
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #45: There Oughta be a Book
Germaine, Founding Mothers: the women who raised our nation by Cokie Roberts is an actual book which I highly recommend.
Bugs - Resend issue
Thanks!
Bugs - Resend issue
On my Many Thoughts of Many Minds, I'm trying to resend myself number 1245 and I can't put in 4 digits for some odd reason-any suggestions? Thanks
Book Requests - Captain Blood pleeeease!
This sounds fun!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
If you could go back in time and save a writer's life, so he could have written more and longer-who would it be? Yes, I just saw Bright Star and it definitely would be Keats for me.
Book Requests - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Whoops! Should be she is always worth reading...:)
Book Requests - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Zora, like C.S. Lewis, wrote such a variety of things that perhaps even her lesser known stories, plays, etc...would merit a search. She is always wrote reading, even the more obscure pieces.
DailyLit Selects - Ideas for Book Excerpts in DailyLit Selects
Something by John Muir, since PBS is doing the national parks on T.V. I find myself wanting to read something by him. Plus some nonfiction would be welcome for variety.
DailyLit Selects - Ideas for Book Excerpts in DailyLit Selects
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins, The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
DailyLit Selects - Ideas for Book Excerpts in DailyLit Selects
Born to Run by Christopher MCDougall; The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood; Breakfast With Budda by Roland Merullo; The Moral Animal by Robert Wright; Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
EVIL
No evil is without its compensation.
"Seneca, isn't it?"
"The quote...exactly-before crime, there was war." The pathologist gets the last word on murder victims. This one is a donor.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #44: Best Banned Books
The biggest surprise on that list to me: that Charlotte's Web and Winnie-the-Pooh are on it. I can not imagine childhood without those 2 books.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #44: Best Banned Books
The two I like are: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (so imaginative and provocative) and Light in August by William Faulkner which is my personal favorite of Faulkner's work.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #43: Writers and Rockers
James Michener/Tales of the South Pacific=Some Enchanted Evening/ Bali Ha'i/I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Tribute to Guy Noir
She slunk into the office with fear stamped all over her. The dame was a looker with a musical lilt to her voice. I couldn't focus on what she was saying, because of her sexy body. Her dog popped-out of her purse and laid the weapon at my feet.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
What was the first banned book you read? Or the first one you would like to read, we'll have to say throughout history, since at different times books have had their moments on the various lists (including sadly, school lists even now).
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #43: Writers and Rockers
Very insightful the Jim Morrison one. Ian Fleming/James Bond=Goldfinger (was it Shirley Bassey that sang that?) All the Bond films have good music...
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Hot Days of Despair
Beware the treachery of desire, our pleasures wheedle and caress-only to strangle us.Sweating, he stuck to his clothes...he had been blind, the past overheated his bitter passions with stab wounds of lust. Together a moment that sealed fate-in prison alone. A man held captive by desire.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Dazzling Debts Must Be Paid
In this economy, death ends all debts... yet her lawyer was paid in loose diamonds. Was she the victim or the operator? Only glittering Gloria knows, as she winks and leaves the station. Arsenic has been known as the inheritance-maker throughout history.
Romeo and Juliet - I love this book!
Correction: Sweet Bitter Love don't want tp drive someone crazy looking for an incorrect track on a C.D. :)
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #43: Writers and Rockers
Too much work, no need to be sorry just start humming as you read this and think L. Frank Baum/The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/ Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Good books inspire our imaginations and our creativity to take it to the next level so our souls can soar. Think Pygmalion (My Fair Lady) by Shaw with another lovely film score.
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That was a fun blog. Congratulations on all the impressive new reads, the site just gets better and better!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #41: Back to School
Moengey, Would you please post in the forum-ideas and suggestions, items of note who is the author of Beowulf on the Beach? As this sounds like a book I would enjoy reading also. Thanks!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #42: Whodunnit?
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (but I love all her books) that is just the most well-known, because of the movie.
Romeo and Juliet - I love this book!
I just saw this as an opera for the first time and it was great. However to answer your question, I would say listen to Aretha Franklin's song Bittersweet Love. Music helps us understand emotionally certain issues that arise in literature that can dwell with us a lifetime in a spiritual sense.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #43: Writers and Rockers
I listen to music when I read all the time. When I read Anna Karenina, I was listening to Sarah McLachlan's Possession, that song is so haunting that it perfectly fit that book. I can not think of one without the other. Do we not have any other musical readers? :)
Essays - Essays
Essays by Michel De Montaigne-459 installments
Essays - Essays
I'm at 27% on this and while it is improving; it is a bit more of an endurance test than I thought. However I find I'm taking notes, so I'm sticking with it. How are the other readers finding it?
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #42: Whodunnit?
For a living writer, try Chris Bohjalian's The Double Bind. It really up-dates this style of writing in surprising and thrilling ways.
The Phantom of the Opera - Yay, first review
This is one of my favorites, also. Sadly it is overlooked because of the movie and stage versions of it, a case of over-exposure from other sources. I found it lushly evocative and purely entertaining.
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MaggieH. thanks because this inquiring mind did want to know! With 260 installments of Moby Dick-I, for one have new respect for my fellow readers. Do you guys ever do surveys of the readers for your demographics? That would be fun.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #41: Back to School
The one that has stayed with me (the most impact) is The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder. Even as I was reading it, I remembered thinking what a serious book to have a young person read. But of course, that was the point of the assignment to make one consider what one normally wouldn't. I liked it best because it made me grow as a reader.
Book Requests - Essays
The essays of Francis Bacon would be a nice addition, since we have only 6 selections in essays.
Book Requests - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I was unaware there is an old movie version of this book with Yul Brynner. I caught it by accident on T.V. the other day, different as a movie, better than I thought.
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MaggieH, When I was reading Grant I noticed that it was one of the most finished reading books with the other readers. And it made me wonder which of the longer books (besides Pride & Prejudice) are the most finished on this site?
Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant - Memoirs worth reading and action-packed
Considering that he (Grant) wrote most of this book after a stroke, it truly is heroic. You will learn more than you think.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #39: Paper vs. Pixels
Best wishes for your recovery, BookMuncher I hope everyday there will be progress. Dailylit reading has been very helpful in getting me to read books I've always wanted to read but just didn't quite get to. I still adore regular books and carry one whenever I go out.
Book Samplers - Book Sampler Idea: Charles Dickens
I see your point, perhaps first sentences or openings since Dickens has some of the most famous ones. It would be a challenge to do it well.
Book Samplers - Book Sampler Idea: Charles Dickens
This would be very helpful, I agree. Dickens is not to be missed, however the sheer volume of his work can put some off. So a sampler would be perfect.
Ideas - Items of note forum
I have a second item. Drood by Dan Simmons has Wilkie Collins (who wrote Woman in White, etc...) as a character in the novel and for all the fans of his on this site I thought I should mention it. In real life Dickens and Collins worked together on some projects, so a nice blurring of lines of the possible.
Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant - I was uncertain that this would live up to all the praise.
Well I thought I was well-read in this area of history, until I started reading this book. Who knew that Grant and Thoreau were in agreement about the Mexican war? Then there are the insights about the characters of the men in control of the war effort and all done in such an understated manner...Grant's book is a discovery.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #37: Where to?
I have just finished Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book and it is so culturally fascinating because of the locations and history. It takes you to London, Venice, Vienna, Sarajevo, Jerusalem, Tarragona, Arnhem Land, Gunumeleng, and Boston. She is the one writer living that I think people will be reading in a 100 years.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres - Great book for vicarious travel
I have this on my to-read list and you've made me look forward to reading it even more!
Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant - I was uncertain that this would live up to all the praise.
Is anyone else surprised that Grant had his 13 year old son with him as he fought the Civil War?
Masters of Verse - Good water for thirsty corporate soul
It is difficult/ to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found there-William Carlos Williams. I had to share that after seeing your heading!
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Perfect! And much appreciated, MaggieH..
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On our settings, could we look into having a vacation temporary stop setting, rather than just suspend?
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #28: For Adults Only
I don't know about classic, but the first banned (at one time) book, was Lady Chatterly's Lover; which I read at age 14 and thought I was oh so grown-up to be reading it.
Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant - I was uncertain that this would live up to all the praise.
But I have been pleasantly surprised, at how enjoyable this book is to read. And amused at how going 18 miles an hour was flying and made space no object!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #35: Literary Friends
Tom Jones by Fielding would be the best party hardy fun friend; Iago from Shakespeare the worst.
Ideas - Anthony Adverse Anyone?
I'm reading a literary quizz book, and one of the ?'s is: Which book by Hervey Allen was the bestselling novel in America in 1933-1934? And the answer is: Anthony Adverse! So I say add it, why not? Plus if anyone wants to know about the quiz book, just ask.
Book Requests - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This is one of my top ten books of all time. A must read for any serious reader.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #34: You: The Book
I think I'm in love with the first answer! However my answer would be nonfiction current events e-book with a futurist outlook as I feel ever evolving. What fun to have my ? picked. :)
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
What work of literature are you?
Etc. - Birds in the title.
Lark and Termite-Jayne Anne Phillips
Ideas - Items of note forum
I just found out that John Le Carre's son, Nick Harkaway wrote a good sci-fi book-The Gone Away World. It would be good to have a forum to alert other readers of books like this one.
Etc. - Question of the Week #16: Favorite Female Writers
Probably the 2 best short story writers in only a page or two would be Virginia Woolf and Patricia Highsmith. And they are both known more for their novels. Check-out the short stories for great reading...
Psychology Books - BOOKS by C.S. Lewis
I added it to my to-read list also. Thanks SO much MaggieH. you are a wonder!
Book Requests - Patricia Highsmith-short stories
I would love to see either her short stories or one of her novels on this site.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #32: Guilty Pleasures
The true history of Chocolate by Sophie and Michael Coe for a truly guilty pleasure...YUM!
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He wrote short stories and non-fiction as well as novels. The Jewel of the Seven Stars is probably easier to find. His Erotic Tales of the Victorian Age, Under the Sunset, etc...might work on this site-a judgement call on your part. Thanks!
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MaggieH., I'm curious what is the first book that most people choose to read on Dailylit? An observation, as popular as Bram Stroker is why are not more of his works offered I am wondering...thanks.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #2: The Great American novel?
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, in that the character ends up (spoiler alert) in America. Plus the constant reinvention of herself, and the endless possibilities of life...but a novel that begins in jail and ends in freedom can't go wrong!
Dracula - Van Helsing to Anita Blake & Harry Dresden?
He is considered (Lindqvist) Sweden's Stephen King. And is well worth the search, a fascinating writer that stands apart. Enjoy!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #31: American Writers
Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff about the glory days of the space program. Not the favorite, but a favorite American writer of mine in that he reflects the time period well.
Dracula - Van Helsing to Anita Blake & Harry Dresden?
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist was the international bestseller that was made in to a movie. It isn't on dailylit, but if anyone wants something more up-to-date on vampires its a good read.
Etc. - Birds in the title.
Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics 1965-1999, by Paul McCartney
Etc. - Birds in the title.
Blackbird House-Alice Hoffman
Who is Mark Twain? - To wake up with Mark Twain is-
a pure delight! Sooo charming...
Masters of Verse - What the hell is "The Burial of the Dead" about?
I finished and I think my favorite poem was Amy Lowell's To an Early Daffodil. Although the Frost/Wordsworth/Dunbar poems were memorable also. Onto Mark Twain...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Put Yourself in a Slave's Place
since you enjoyed it so much, check out http://www.nps.gov/frdo/index.htm
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
correction Jose Saramago!
Horror Books - Real Horror
Achmed, I just heard Little Stranger by Sarah Waters is a good one!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
Which Nobel prize-winner of literature is your favorite? I like John Saramago.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
Which book is a better discussion book with a group? Which books are best enjoyed in solitude?
Bugs - I didn't get Masters of Verse today (June 20).
Whoops! Sorry my mistake I just adjusted my settings. Sleepy this a.m...
Bugs - I didn't get Masters of Verse today (June 20).
Do I do something from my end?
Reader Challenges - Classics in 6 Words
Don Quixote: Deluded lover with bipolar ego issues
Masters of Verse - What the hell is "The Burial of the Dead" about?
I'm really enjoying Masters of Verse. A friend had forwarded Robert Frost's Reluctance to me and that made me sign up. It just gets better and better!
Philosophy Books - Some Simone De Beauvoir works?
For the future in this section, it would be nice to see her here.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #29: Literary Dads
I always thought Nancy Drew had the best father!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #4: Pick Your President
Without a doubt, Candida by G.B. Shaw a most sensible female character, who would keep everyone and everything running properly and make it look easy and do it with grace.
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Dailylit is great fun! Many thanks to Susan the founder (pure light bulb moment). MaggieH. get more game in the bird book trivia...you can do it.
Etc. - Birds in the title.
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Psychology Books - BOOKS by C.S. Lewis
Definitely! Thanks, so much.
Psychology Books - BOOKS by C.S. Lewis
Yes, I also would like to see C.S. Lewis works on this site. He has written essays, and has many works to draw from in general.
Ideas - I would like to suggest an anthropology category.
Helen Fisher has several books that would be worth considering for it. And it would benefit both the site and the readers, I think.
The Three Musketeers - Sequence to the Series
Yes, very kind of you and most helpful to your fellow readers to post that. Thanks, chrway! I have Louise de la Valliere on my to read list, although its a ways down there.
Etc. - Birds in the title.
black swan green by David Mitchell (fits in both games!)
Etc. - Title has a color / colors in it!
black swan green by David Mitchell
Etc. - Title has a color / colors in it!
Go Green, Live Rich by David Bach
Book Requests - Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
This book by Georgina Howell or the Janet Wallach book Desert Queen: Tthe extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell:Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, Ally to Lawrence of Arabia would be a great addition to this site.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
The question I find cool is which author's writing reminds you of which musician's music? Example: Virginia Woolf-Jimi Hendrix they both totally broke new ground.
Poetry Books - Book Requests
English, please. Many thanks!
Poetry Books - Book Requests
Baudelaire would be wonderful!
Psychology Books - New Addition Suggestion
Even a biography of Jung would be welcome.
Etc. - Question of the Week #19: Favorite Poems
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)-by e.e.cummings
Book Requests - Isak Dinesen and Graham Greene
I would enjoy their short stories (particularly Dinesen) being here.
Etc. - Birds in the title.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Inspector General - Perhaps the greatest of Russian comedies
I particularly like The Nose!
Etc. - Birds in the title.
Bluebird, or the invention of happiness by Shelia Kohler and The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Etc. - Title has a color / colors in it!
The Golden Bowl-Henry James
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #8: Which books make good movies?
Two movies that I remember more for the perfect soundtracks: Out of Africa and Somewhere In Time -the best from books The Remains of the Day and Shadowlands (about C.S. Lewis and his wife)
Etc. - Title has a color / colors in it!
The Bluest Eye and The Black Stallion (this is addictive)
Etc. - Title has a color / colors in it!
The Scarlet Letter
Book Requests - Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner
I notice that there is no anthropology category under books. Since Hurston was an anthropologist perhaps we could use one of her book to start that category? She also wrote plays, although I'm not sure of publishing dates.
Etc. - Birds in the title.
Lady Bird Johnson
Etc. - Question of the Week #18:"Liberty or Death!"
We read, to know we are not alone. C.S. Lewis
Book Requests - Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner
Thanks, I'm looking forward to the Hurston works! She deserves to be better known, now on your site she will be. A valuable service this site is for everyone who is a serious reader.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #26: Once upon a time...
Sleeping Beauty-Bruno Bettelheim wrote The Uses of Enchantment: the meaning and importance of Fairy Tales which is a wonderful read.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #20: Potent Quotables
If you really love quotes, its worth checking www.drmardy.com for his free once a week newsletter on quotes.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #27: Beachy Reads
The Billonaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's most expensive bottle of wine by Benjamin Wallace and The Match King by Frank Partnoy.
The Woman in White - Great Book!
I don't know about a movie, but there was a theatre production in the West End, London some years back. Considering identity thieft-its timely!
Book Requests - Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner
Two authors that are missing and definitely are classics, both in novels and short stories. Where and why aren't they here?
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Memorable Tristram Shandy
A book you will not forget! There is nothing quite like this book, it is not as well known as it should be nowadays. So much fun...one of my all time favorites.
Etc. - what is Thoreau's most inspiring saying in Walden?
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Its so delightful and easy that it makes me smile.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #20: Potent Quotables
Its easier to be critical than correct. Benjamin Disraeli
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #24: Lives in Writing
I joined this site because I have always wanted to read the biography of President Grant (supposed to be the best president's book). And the autobiography Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington which I'm in the process of reading.
Help - Contacts
Orlando, FLorida
3 Short Reads by Edgar Allan Poe - 3 Short Reads not enough!
Poe is always worth reading and becomes (his Red Death) quite timely, what with swine flu presenting the same issues that were/are ongoing threats to humanity. I do not see death as just, but rather as indiscriminate and random in this story which makes it more realistic and frightening as in real life. As Poe knew all too well in his own personal life. Thanks, for mentioning some of the lesser known stories. I enjoy your comments.
Book Requests - Truman Capote
Truman Capote's Portraits and Observations is a collection of all his essays and I found it fascinating. You can get it from a library, but it is addictive!
Historical Books - I was hoping for more variety.
Great! Might I also request The Match King by Frank Partnoy as a selection that could be historical or economic-very timely.
Non-Fiction Books - In need of more diversity and depth?
I would like to see Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T.E. Lawrence added.
Anna Karenina - Ending makes up for the middle part.
I felt that her child ending up with her husband was too harsh an ending. After all, vengeance is mine is God not her husband.
Therese Raquin - A Masterpiece
I thought it would make an excellent movie. In fact, I'm surprised no one has already done that!
Historical Books - I was hoping for more variety.
Suggestion: The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins by Kirstin Downey