Reading is never off topic is it?

NDJoan wrote:

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And then, of course, there's the Twilight series (vampire/human love
story) by Stephenie Meyer. Not into vampires? She's also written an
adult novel, "The host", about aliens, of sorts, that's very good.

Happy reading!

Joan

Has anyone tried the James Patterson series about Maximum Ride, the
genetically modified winged child? Fabbo stories and DS is reading them
and loving them right now.

--
Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

ellice wrote:
On 7/22/09 12:40 PM, "Nancy" wrote:

On Jul 22, 10:41�am, ellice wrote:
On 7/21/09 7:38 PM, �"Lucille" wrote:







"Dawne Peterson" wrote in message
el...
"Lucille" wrote
I've added these to my list. � So many books, so little time`````````
This has me thinking that I should climb up and take down my very, very
old copies of the Red,Yellow & Blue Fairy books and read them again. � I
do that every few years, first to dust the pages and second because I
love them.
Oh, I loved those books soooo much when I was a little girl; I always had
one or another out from the library. �Now I will have to go online and see
if I can find them. �I also loved Hans Christian Andersen, especially The
Snow Queen, and Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince, which is another story
that brings tears to my eyes every time.
Dawne
If you add The Secret Garden (and a very big box of tissues) to that list,
plus a coffee pot and a never ending supply of good ground coffee, I could
happily live happily locked up for a week.
Oh, I loved the Secret Garden - red it over and over. �IIRC, being a horse
crazy girl, Black Beauty was the first "real big girl book" that I read. �I
can remember reading out loud from it to my grandparents when I was just a
tiny kid in kindergarten. Also, Little Women, and of course, the Bobbsey
Twine. � Ofr many years I had a gorgeous leatherbound set of children's
classics that my DGM had gotten at some antique shop for my mother or aunt.
For some stupid (STUPID) reason, my mother decided to give the set to her
cousin for her girls when I was going away at 15. �I'm still angry - as the
younger girls (my extended cousins - and none too readerly) were supposed to
return the set when they got older - I'm still waiting. �It had all the
Dickens books, and so many others.

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Ah.....The Secret Garden. A favorite of mine too. Made sure I
saw the musical based on it when it came around. OTOH was
never into horses so I never had an attraction to Black Beauty.
But I did love Little Women and all that followed. Even have
a couple of the others that DM and DA had as kids. I think
they're still in boxes down in the basement. And I've
several books of her gothic mysteries. Definitely not for kids.

As for books being given away. DM rues the day DA decided
to give all their Nancy Drews to DU's nieces. Of course I
never saw them. Instead had to "settle" for the "newer"
versions that were updated in the 50s and 60s. However,
my 2nd grade teacher (and family friend) gave me a couple
originals including Secret of the Old Clock.

Nancy

I had the whole Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys series from well before I was born.
Then the "Cherry Ames" - nurse series which was written in the 40s, IIRC,
butmy copies were hardbacks from the 60s, same with the Bobbsey twins. My
2nd cousin who was in nursing school when I was about 7 or 8 was driven
crazy by my Cherry Ames fixation - asking her stupid questions about customs
that were in those books - but of course no longer in practice. I think my
DA, the then Chief Surgical Resident at local hospital was also driven crazy
by this.

I would read and re-read all those books. Intersprersed with the Walter
Farley "Black Stallion" series and all related books. And a lot of
archaelogy books (my other fixation).

Ellice


Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden...I remember one
summer, a neighbor who had the whole original set of 30s or 40s-era
Bobbsey Twins from her own youth let me borrow them, one at a time. Each
day I'd go collect one, read it, and return it the next morning. This
woman had a daughter my age who had ZERO interest in reading - she was a
real "tomboy."

In fourth or fifth grade I discover Albert Payson Terhune and his dog
books - read them all. "Lad a Dog," etc. On the next street over, some
years back a neighbor got a collie and they named it "Treve." She was
astounded when I said, "Yes, it has to Treve before it can Re-Treve,
Albert Payson Terhune said." Her husband was a big APT fan, and she'd
never heard of this author and thought her husband was a little looney,
perhaps. Her jaw dropped when she met a SECOND person who "got" it!

sue


--
Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
www.dirtylinen.com

On Jul 22, 6:41*pm, Susan Hartman wrote:
and yes, even "fox in Sox"

"Fox in sox" was the only Seuss book I *really* liked because it's
darned-near impossible without getting your tang toungled!!! LOL

Joan

On Jul 22, 6:47*pm, Trish Brown wrote:

Has anyone tried the James Patterson series about Maximum Ride, the
genetically modified winged child? Fabbo stories and DS is reading them
and loving them right now.

Thanks for the reminder, Trish! We have the first one and I forgot to
put it on my "books to read" document. I didn't realize it's a
series...must ask the bibliographer who orders children's books to
check into that!

Joan

"Lucille" wrote in message
...

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
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Just finished "The Thirteenth Tale", which I highly recommend to all the
Jane Eyre fans out there.

Finished about an hour ago, Naameh's Kiss. Same world as her Kushiel's
series, but set several generations after. I suspect a few more books to
follow.

Any one got a few good suggestions? Reading the Thirteenth Tale made me
think about re-reading Jane Eyre or more likely Trollope.



Off to do my fund raising thing and then the grocery shopping and on to
the
garden. Since it's supposed to rain most of tomorrow, I want to dig
today.

Cheryl


I've been into really quick fast, light, fun reading and I'm right now in
the middle of something called Charley's Webb by Joy Fielding. It's not
bad and holding me. One of my friends has read each of her books and
says she liked most of them.

Jane Eyre sounds like an interesting re-read. I'm always a little
reluctant to do that with something I loved for fear it won't hold up and
I'll be disappointed.

L


Jane Eyre will NEVER let you down.

One of my favourite re-reads is always the Lord of the Rings - you always
seem to find something you never really noticed before - or just forgot - I
read it about every threee years.

The Mary Stewart books about Merlin from ******* son of a Roman general and
Welsh slave, through to old age draw me in every few years, too - lovely
read. (The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment).
Here`s the write-up from Amazon which sums it up:-

"I've read the Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart many times over the years and
have always found it magical and truly enchanting. Mary Stewart has woven a
"realistic" tapestry of dark age Britain using Merlin as the central
character to tell most of the Arthurian saga from a different point of view.
Was Merlin a magician? Perhaps, but he was more than that; a doctor,
engineer, philosopher and creator of a future. All this could seem like
magic to early Britons and Mary Stewart does indeed give Merlin some real
magic. Above all else, this is a romantic story, the story of a boy
searching initially for his father and in doing so becoming entangled in a
story bigger than himself, bigger than his desires and as big as the
landscape Stewart weaves. Get it, read it, love it... I guarantee you will
return to it again and again."

The Wicked Day is another excellent follow-on to the trilogy. In fact now
I`ve remembered them I think I`ll spend all my Amazon vouchers (earned from
doing surveys!) on replacing my now rather battered copies!

Pat

On 7/23/09 7:47 PM, in article , "Pat P"
wrote:


"Lucille" wrote in message
...

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...
Just finished "The Thirteenth Tale", which I highly recommend to all the
Jane Eyre fans out there.

Finished about an hour ago, Naameh's Kiss. Same world as her Kushiel's
series, but set several generations after. I suspect a few more books to
follow.

Any one got a few good suggestions? Reading the Thirteenth Tale made me
think about re-reading Jane Eyre or more likely Trollope.



Off to do my fund raising thing and then the grocery shopping and on to
the
garden. Since it's supposed to rain most of tomorrow, I want to dig
today.

Cheryl


I've been into really quick fast, light, fun reading and I'm right now in
the middle of something called Charley's Webb by Joy Fielding. It's not
bad and holding me. One of my friends has read each of her books and
says she liked most of them.

Jane Eyre sounds like an interesting re-read. I'm always a little
reluctant to do that with something I loved for fear it won't hold up and
I'll be disappointed.

L


Jane Eyre will NEVER let you down.

One of my favourite re-reads is always the Lord of the Rings - you always
seem to find something you never really noticed before - or just forgot - I
read it about every threee years.

The Mary Stewart books about Merlin from ******* son of a Roman general and
Welsh slave, through to old age draw me in every few years, too - lovely
read. (The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment).
Here`s the write-up from Amazon which sums it up:-

"I've read the Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart many times over the years and
have always found it magical and truly enchanting. Mary Stewart has woven a
"realistic" tapestry of dark age Britain using Merlin as the central
character to tell most of the Arthurian saga from a different point of view.
Was Merlin a magician? Perhaps, but he was more than that; a doctor,
engineer, philosopher and creator of a future. All this could seem like
magic to early Britons and Mary Stewart does indeed give Merlin some real
magic. Above all else, this is a romantic story, the story of a boy
searching initially for his father and in doing so becoming entangled in a
story bigger than himself, bigger than his desires and as big as the
landscape Stewart weaves. Get it, read it, love it... I guarantee you will
return to it again and again."

The Wicked Day is another excellent follow-on to the trilogy. In fact now
I`ve remembered them I think I`ll spend all my Amazon vouchers (earned from
doing surveys!) on replacing my now rather battered copies!

Pat




AH - that would be the perfect re-read this summer!

Cheryl

"Mary" wrote in message
...
I know people can be reluctant to re-read a book loved years earlier,
but suggest they not hesitate! Although the plot line and characters'
broad stokes are certainly familiar, the lens of a few (or more!)
years makes it a new book, and you see different things and pick up
more nuances than you imagined were ever there. I remember enjoying
To Kill a Mockingbird when first published, and re-read it last year
-- much better, and WOW! Same with The Wind in the Willows, Brighty
of the Grand Canyon, Tess of the D'Ubervilles, and Les Miserables. My
next re-read will probably be Pride and Prejudice.

I loved the Wind in the Willows - still do. My favourite chapter is "The
Piper at the Gates of Dawn".

Pat

Rereading "Song of Solomon".