About Me

Waiting for life to pass away and meanwhile indulging in books, metal and chocolate.

My BookLists

• To-Read (Top 10 of 28)
  • The Camel's Back
    by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  • Tales of the Jazz Age
    by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
    by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  • The Jelly-Bean
    by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  • Pride and Prejudice
    by Austen, Jane
  • Emma
    by Austen, Jane
  • Mansfield Park
    by Austen, Jane
  • Sense and Sensibility
    by Austen, Jane
  • Memoir of Jane Austen
    by Austen-Leigh, James Edward
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Wilde, Oscar
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• Behind a Mask finished

  Entertaining I've read before reviews of this book and fairly knew what to expect. Though, I didn't fully believed that L. M. Alcott was able to write on a non-moralizing subject. And it proved to be funny and with a surprising ending. Surprising mostly because, after reading some of her children's books, I was expecting that the 'bad' heroine be punished and the narrator deliver us a preach on the value of honesty. I posted this on 27 October 2010
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• Under the Lilacs finished
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• Lyrical Ballads finished

  Entertaining and accessible Entertaining and easy to read, especially for someone who is not so much into poetry and is not a native English speaker. I posted this on 13 July 2010
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• Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters finished

  Appropriate A very sedate account of Jane Austen's life. Though, after finishing the book I'm left with the impression that it matches very well with Jane's life and that it reveals her more than a modern biography can because it's written in the style of the period. One surprise for me was to find out that their letter writing style was quite like the one used in Jane's books or that they used to write on a letter small pieces in multiple days before sending it. Those are the kind of little details that I might have missed had I read a modern account of her life. I posted this on 01 October 2010
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• Through the Looking-Glass finished
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• "Fiction" by Alice Munro finished
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Behind a Mask - Entertaining

I've read before reviews of this book and fairly knew what to expect. Though, I didn't fully believed that L. M. Alcott was able to write on a non-moralizing subject. And it proved to be funny and with a surprising ending. Surprising mostly because, after reading some of her children's books, I was expecting that the 'bad' heroine be punished and the narrator deliver us a preach on the value of honesty.

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Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters - Appropriate

A very sedate account of Jane Austen's life. Though, after finishing the book I'm left with the impression that it matches very well with Jane's life and that it reveals her more than a modern biography can because it's written in the style of the period. One surprise for me was to find out that their letter writing style was quite like the one used in Jane's books or that they used to write on a letter small pieces in multiple days before sending it. Those are the kind of little details that I might have missed had I read a modern account of her life.

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Lyrical Ballads - Entertaining and accessible

Entertaining and easy to read, especially for someone who is not so much into poetry and is not a native English speaker.

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