llfrederick is not currently reading any books.
I’m 60 years old, female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since February 07, 2009. My reading interests include history, science, classics, science fiction, and mystery.
Books
- Chéri finished
- Far from the Madding Crowd finished
- The Koran finished
- Utilitarianism finished
- The Communist Manifesto finished
- Last Poems finished
- Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life finished
- The Enchanted Castle finished
- Crome Yellow finished
- Retief! finished
- The French Revolution finished
- 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen by Leonard Maltin finished
- Pan finished
- The Wind in the Willows finished
- Roo'd finished
- The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 finished
- Burn finished
- King Solomon's Mines finished
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience finished
- On the Origin of Species: Part 2 finished
- Interstellar Patrol finished
- The Devil's Dictionary finished
- She finished
- Paradise Lost finished
- On the Origin of Species: Part 1 finished
- The Prisoner of Zenda finished
- The Land That Time Forgot finished
- Who is Mark Twain? finished
- There Will be Dragons finished
- Anne of Green Gables finished
- Wikipedia Tour: World Capitals finished
- Future Imperfect finished
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm finished
- Frankenstein finished
- Jacob's Room finished
- Brigands of the Moon finished
- Fifty Famous Stories Retold finished
- Daddy Long Legs finished
- 1632 finished
- Anna Christie finished
- A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories finished
- The Black Star Passes finished
- All for Love finished
- A Book of Nonsense finished
- Agnes Grey finished
- American Fairy Tales finished
- Grimm's Fairy Tales finished
- The Bacchae finished
- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations) finished
- Alcestis finished
- Electra of Sophocles finished
- Antigone finished
- Oresteia: The Furies finished
- Oresteia: The Libation Bearers finished
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz finished
- Oresteia: Agamemnon finished
- Joseph Andrews finished
- Through the Looking-Glass finished
- Uncle Vanya finished
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finished
- Dubliners finished
- The Swiss Family Robinson finished
- A Voyage to the South Sea finished
- Dracula finished
Posts
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #29: Literary Dads
Literary fathers? For once, you pose an easy question - Atticus Finch is also my favorite, of course. I can't even think of a close second candidate. My dad's a fine man, but is there anyone who wouldn't love to have a father like Atticus?
Etc. - Question of the Week #12: Unfinished Books
I feel for all non-finishers of Gone With the Wind - I started it at least five times before just forcing myself to read the whole thing, always losing momentum at the starvation part. And Les Miserables took over 4 years to slog through, it's so excruciatingly long! I finished Wuthering Heights on the first try, but still loathe it.
Perhaps I'm weird, but I dearly love Huckleberry Finn and nearly all Mark Twain, Jane Austen, and most of Faulkner. The Grapes of Wrath was hard to read, but I think because it's almost too powerful and moving. I even found Don Quixote and Moby Dick reasonably interesting. Finnegan's Wake defeated me, though. After skimming it years ago, I decided I never could understand it, and did not care. Ulysses was all right, but obscurity for its own sake or whatever Joyce had in mind is boring and annoying - life is too short, with more books I really want to read than I'll ever have time for.