fbales is currently reading War and Peace and The Woman in White.
I’m 60 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since June 24, 2009. My reading interests include Most anything. Classics to fantasy..
Books
- Grammar Devotional 100% complete
- The Awakening 45% complete
- The Woman in White 85% complete
- The Kreutzer Sonata 56% complete
- War and Peace 21% complete
- Crush It! 100% complete
- The Diary of a Superfluous Man finished
- The Dead finished
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer finished
- Walden finished
- Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer finished
- Wikipedia Tour: The Presidents of the United States finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Western Lit's Greatest Hits finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Masterpieces of Western Art finished
- Poems by Emily Dickinson suspended
- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations) suspended
Posts
The Iliad - What's the deal with the Roman names?
Does anyone know who the translator is?
Etc. - Question of the Week #16: Favorite Female Writers
Ahh, easy. Pearl S. Buck because The Good Earth was the first novel I couldn't put down when I was a kid. Having just finished Wuthering Heights I have to mention Emily Brontë. I can't remember where I read it, but one critic considers Wuthering Heights the greatest novel in English. I don't know if I would agree with that, but it is easily in the top 10.
Modern women writers I have enjoyed include Barbara Kingsolver, Audrey Niffenegger, Sue Monk Kidd, and really, many others.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #34: You: The Book
An artist's journal with watercolor studies of birds and insects and landscapes, and charcoal studies of faces and hands and eyes and noses and lips, and quick pencil drawings of fanciful things. Each page would have copious notes of what the artist sees and feels when studying each subject.