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moengey is currently reading DailyLit's Book Channel and The Intellectual Devotional II.

I’m from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since April 30, 2007. My reading interests include Best Sellers, Classics, History, and Self-Improvement.

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Question of the Week - Character Moms

Frank McCourt wrote an interesting book about his mother, Angela: Angela's Ashes.

Question of the Week - Character Moms

I recall Vivi from the “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”.

Question of the Week - Favorite Childhood Jokes

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Isabella
Isabella who
Isabella broken? I've been ringing ten times!

Question of the Week - You in Words

If I could have any writer or poet write about me, I would choose Gay Talese.

Question of the Week - Painting Your Portrait

If I could chose any artist to paint my portrait, it would be Andy Warhol.

Question of the Week - Savoury Spring

One of my favorite uses for spring pears is in salads.

Question of the Week - Savoury Spring

If I could take a bite out of Spring, it would taste like asparagus.

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

Today my favorite word is "vent"...as in, I don't want you to solve my dilemma, I just want to vent.

("Dilemma" is another favorite word!)

Question of the Week - Ordinarily Extraordinary

School Crossing Guards are out in all kinds of weather, keeping people aware that vehicles are not the only precious things on the road.

Question of the Week - Fit for the Year - Intellectually, that is

One way I intend to stay intellectually fit this year is by paying close attention to local and world news. Another way is by reading The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah Oppenheim on Daily Lit. And, I intend to get out more!

Question of the Week - What would you like to learn this year?

How to have more fun!

Question of the Week - Literary Resolutions for 2012

The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach, is #1 on my list of books to read in 2012. Then John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Question of the Week - Naughty or Nice?

I have been naughty this year, when appropriate. I have been nice this year, when appropriate. Santa should think good of me -- or bad!

Question of the Week - Characters at Your Dinner Table

Remy, (the adorable rat from Ratatouille). I would enjoy cooking and dining with him!

Reader Challenges - Creative Juices for Thanksgiving

My Thanksgiving dish would be a variation of "Stone Soup". I'd enjoy roasting the turkey and each dinner guest would add an ingredient to improve our meal.

Reader Challenges - Stranger Thoughts

When I imagine a stranger, I picture either "tall, dark and handsome" or some creep behaving strangely who is up to no good. I avoid both.

Question of the Week - Closet Keepers

I will never throw away my favorite well-made, great-fitting little black dress.

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

Counterrevolutionary...because, just like Uncharacteristically, it has 20 letters.

Question of the Week - Great Movie Adaptations

Of Mice and Men. The Outsiders. The Good Earth.

Question of the Week - Great Movie Adaptations

Eat, Pray, Love

Reader Challenges - School Jitters

I was upset because my haircut, new shoes, and freshly-sharpened #2 pencils were a mess before the end of the first week of school!

Question of the Week - Grammar Pet Peeves

It bugs me when folks write "should of" instead of "should have"... as in, "I should of known better."

Reader Challenges - Twitter Tales

No big deal. Life is surreal.
He's behind bars, not in them.
Got the raw deal. Can't seem to self-heal.
Must leave, or remain his victim.

Reader Challenges - Twitter Tales

Pa does wrong & goes 2 jail. Leaves Ma 2 care for home & kids. Pa expects a party upon his release. No party 4 Pa. Just a home-cooked meal.

Question of the Week - Which Book Title Best Describes You?

Unbroken... by Laura Hillenbrand

Question of the Week - Words that Make You Cringe

"Fugheddaboudit" (Forget about it. Ain't gonna happen).
"Ain't" and "Gonna", too!

Question of the Week - Words that Make You Cringe

snit. (A person is in a snit when when they are very agitated).

Reader Challenges - Should Have but Haven't Books

I have not read any of the Harry Potter books nor any books in the Twilight series.

Question of the Week - Reading S'Mores and Vegetables

Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Question of the Week - Your Proustian Moment

I tried a s'more and I knew it was the best thing I would ever taste! The soft, warm, squishy marshmallow melting the Hershey squares between two graham crackers...still reminds me of being a kid...and still the best thing I ever ate!

Question of the Week - Short and Sweet

I make a reservation!

Question of the Week - Your Sexiest Meal

A fisherman and I shared a meal he made: fresh oysters, fresh clams, lobster, corn-on-the-cob, and boiled potatoes...I married him!

Reader Challenges - Group Challenge: Contribute to the Story

Marie looked away from her five children and studied her palm, fingers outstretched. Each child was as different as the fingers on her hand. From oldest to youngest, each child was needy in their own special way.

Question of the Week - Sweet or Salty?

Sweet in the morning; salty in the evening!

Question of the Week - Favorite Lines of Poetry

Xanadu Kubla Khan
A few lines from a poem
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

Question of the Week - The most beautiful place on earth

New York City

Question of the Week - Choose One Book for the Next Generation

The Good Earth ~ a novel by Pearl S. Buck

Reader Challenges - Spring Incarnated

Spring would be like a confused adolescent with wild mood swings.

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

Sprezzatura. (sprezzatura is the art of doing a difficult thing with grace, thereby making it look easy).

Question of the Week - Fiction or Nonfiction?

both.

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

thwart (stop or hinder)

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

bookkeeping (2 o's, 2 k's, and 2 e's...all in a row)

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

bufoon, bufoonery (a clown, clowning around)

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

bafoon

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

koochy-koo

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

uncharacteristically
(because it's a long word - 20 letters!)

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

badass
(very cool).

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

gobsmacked
(Completely dumbfounded, shocked. From the Irish word "gob" meaning "mouth").

Question of the Week - Birthday Wishes for the World

I don't know what you could wish for. But I always wish I could eat whatever I want (birthday cake!), as much as I want (more than half of the cake), and never gain a pound. I wish you all good things on your birthday!

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

canoodle

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

rigamarole

Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

curlicue

Question of the Week - Dog Days at DailyLit

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Question of the Week - Great Film Lines

"Snap out of it!" -- Cher, in Moonstruck

Question of the Week - Happy Birthday James Joyce!

I read Dubliners on Daily Lit a while ago. A worthwhile read! Short chapters.

Question of the Week - Snow Day!

Sleeping late...having breakfast at lunchtime...enjoying a daytime tv show... making a snowman and having a snowball fight, helping to shovel the snow, and finally finishing the book I've been reading.

Reader Challenges - What's Your Sentence?

She did it HER way.

Question of the Week - Favorite Books of 2010

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson is a great book! A stiff-upper-lipped British Major finds out it's never too late to fall in love.

Question of the Week - Favorite Books of 2010

I just finished ROOM by Emma Donoghue. The story is told by a five-year-old boy. The story was so good I couldn't put the book down. I just had to finish it! I highly recommend it.

Question of the Week - People I Wish I Had Known

I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet her and listen to her lecture at the NY Museum Of Natural History. The lecturer was Margaret Mead. I wish I had gotten to know her!

Reader Challenges - 50 Word Fright

It was a dark and stormy night. The child heard a frightening sound outside the bedroom window. Quietly, the child tiptoed to peek out the window. A fiery pair of eyes darted left then right, above a crooked smile. The child breathed out slowly. It was a Jack-O-Lantern! Happy Halloween!

Reader Challenges - 50 Word Fright

The giant was near. She hid under a table. Quiet as a mouse so the giant wouldn't hurt her, she crouched until her little body hurt from tension and immobility. Suddenly she smelled the giant creeping closer. The odor was a pungent combination of cigarettes and booze. "Hello", Mom slurred.

Question of the Week - Back to School Books

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford: The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners. The book is memorable because it was the first assigned reading that I actually enjoyed. Also, Old Yeller by Fred Gipson.

Reader Challenges - What I did on my summer vacation (don't tell my teacher!)

I've been to 19th century Italy and on a ship traveling to America. I learned much about the Italian-American experience thanks to Laurie Fabiao, Elizabeth Street.

I traveled from Hong Kong to America: Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation.

I learned about infant abandonment in Italy in the 1800's: Sacrificed for Honor and Amalia's Tale, David I. Kertzer.

I laughed and learned a lot about the gay community with David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and I read every one of his books!

I've toured the world thanks to Daily Lit's Wikapedia Tour and learned a little bit about a lot of subjects.

I've been all around Sweden, and sat at Harry's Bar off Main Street in Gibralter drinking Tullamore Dew with Lisbeth Salander: Thanks to Stieg Larsson, I learned so much about child abuse and women's rights.

I've cooked many meals in kitchens around the world with famous authors! How great is that! Thanks to Megan Halpern and Daily Lit.

Question of the Week - What's Your Moby Dick?

My Moby Dick is reading Stieg Larsson's trilogy. I had to force myself to read the first two chapters of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I'm glad I did, because the rest of the book was so fascinating! I couldn't wait to get to The Girl Who Played With Fire. Now I'm almost finished with The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, and I'm a little disappointed there won't be a 4th book in the series.

Question of the Week - DailyLit is...

...something I do for me.

Reader Challenges - Drip, drip, drip...

Grandmother taught me that too much water is better than too little when cooking pasta.

Question of the Week - Mini-Courses on DailyLit?

Yes, @mamabird296! You said it perfectly! That's exactly the mini-course I would take.

Question of the Week - Mini-Courses on DailyLit?

I would be interested in an Armchair Traveler course. I don't go anywhere, but I am interested in learning about people and places. I could teach others how to write an effective complaint letter.

Question of the Week - Favorite "Travel" Books

Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love....the author eats her way through Italy, prays her way through India, and finds love in Indonisia.

Question of the Week - Favorite "Travel" Books

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: It's about a boy who travels to find a treasure, and finds himself.

Question of the Week - Question re: Question of the Week

Doris Lessing said, "There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, ever reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vice versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you."

Have you ever read the right book at the right time?

Question of the Week - How about we...

How about we each grab a book, put our lines in the water, and pray the fish don't bite!

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #77: Favorite Fictional Characters

Don Corleone, from The Godfather, by Mario Puzo

Reader Challenges - 10 Word Summer Memories

SATURDAY...in the Park...I think it was the 4th-of-July...

Reader Challenges - 10 Word Summer Memories

Eating hot dogs and drinking Cokes at a family picnic.

Reader Challenges - 10 Word Summer Memories

Catch lightning bugs...nail holes in jar lid...bring home!

Reader Challenges - 10 Word Summer Memories

Balmy Breezes, Brand new Books, Beer, Burgers, Bare feet...Beautiful!

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #76: Summer Literary Romance

It sounds like you are having a true unexpected literary summer fling! Enjoy the show.

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #76: Summer Literary Romance

I always enjoy a play/movie/show/discussion/review after I've read a great book. It adds a new dimension and returns you to that "zone" you were in while reading the story. And you don't have to feel so sad about coming to the end of the book.

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #76: Summer Literary Romance

To dreamdust: Wow! You just described the type of book I think I'd enjoy reading. I've put it on my "To Read" list. Thanks, you just sold a book!

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #76: Summer Literary Romance

I love biographies, so I've had summer flings with such diverse people as Barbara Walters (Audition), Ozzy Osbourne (I Am Ozzy), Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes and 'Tis), Gay Talese (Unto the Sons), and right now, Jean Kwok (Girl in Translation), and Lisa See (On Gold Mountain, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and Shanghi Girls). All great reads, by the way!

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #75: Happy Bloomsday!

Eat, Pray, Love: I'd love to eat my way through Italy the way Elizabeth Gilbert did in her book. Then find peace in India and love in Indonesia. And, then, write a best seller about it...have it made into a movie, get married and write another best seller!

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #74: Merchandising Books

For Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses: In a nautical setting, I would sell Norwegian salmon and fresh caught trout. I would lure people over with the scent of fresh brewed cofffee.

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #73: Summer Reading Lists

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson and Shanghi Girls by Lisa See

Question of the Week - Influential Books

Also, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. A book that tells us you can fall in love even if you're in your Eighties. The right person could still be out there. Life is unfair, but not hopeless.

Question of the Week - Influential Books

I will never wear uncomfortable shoes again, after reading "Snowflower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See. This book has influenced my footwear choices forever.

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #71: Reading Together, Reading Alone

There are books that are better for discussion with a group, such as, The Help, The Postmistress, or Pillars of the Earth. However, I wouldn't discuss the book, I Am Ozzy, with anyone. (Nor would I admit to really enjoying Ozzy's memoir).

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #69: Books on Tumblr

There was a song by Boy George: "I'll Tumble For You"...makes me think of " I TumblrLit For You! " P.S. I need a life!

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #69: Books on Tumblr

...or Daily Lit Tumblr

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #69: Books on Tumblr

DailyTumblrLit sounds good too!

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #69: Books on Tumblr

TumblrLit or Tumblit

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #59: Authors Speak

I would love to hear Edgar Allen Poe read The Raven.

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #58: What I Like About You

To hellohello: I like your suggestion about children's classic books. I'd like to read the classic Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, translated from Italian. A beautifully written story needs no illustrations.

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #58: What I Like About You

DailyLit has become like daily bread to me. I look forward each day to reading a little bit of a story. I am too busy most days open a good book, but when the story appears each day on my computer in short installments, I am surprised at how many great books I've read at the end of a year! And I don't ever feel like I had to take time out of my busy day. Each short installment is a treat I look forward to, and just like my diet, I sometimes cheat and request the next installment or two! I would like to see some current best sellers on the list.

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #46: Childhood Favorites

My mother read Grimm's Fairy Tales to me. I had nightmares about witches, apples, wolves, getting lost, candy, billy goats, giants, and trolls. When I learned to read, I chose books by Dr. Suess.

30 Stories in 30 Days - Worthless and Weird or Wonderfuly Weird?

OK, so who did the thing who wobbled back and forth on its tentacles eat? Did he eat the autistic son, Danny, or perhaps the underpaid, overworked, loyal secretary?

30 Stories in 30 Days - Worthless and Weird or Wonderfuly Weird?

18.9 was the best story so far.

30 Stories in 30 Days - Worthless and Weird or Wonderfuly Weird?

I enjoy spending 5 minutes reading these stories. Especially story 4. I didn't recieve the first story. My subscription started with story 2. Why?

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #41: Back to School

Beowulf. A great read. I liked it so much. I am now reading a new book titled, Beowulf on the Beach.

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #40: Life Imitates Art

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #38: Books on Repeat

Unto The Sons by Gay Talese...and any book written by Frank McCourt

Reader Challenges - Summer Vacation in Six Words

sleep, picnic, parties, graduation, long drives!

Etc. - If YOU were GUY MONTAG

I would memorize The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. His words are good to remember.

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #34: You: The Book

I would be a history book. My book would include all my ancestors. It would show how all the skills, sacrifices, joys, sorrows, recipes, heirlooms, advice, decisions, etc., handed down from them, helped me to become the me that I am.

Hell-Heaven - Wonderful! I enjoyed this story from beginning to end.

I could feel the mother's pain. I understand exactly how the daughter felt and how Deborah was hurt. I highly recommend this book! One of the best short stories I've read in a long time.

Question of the Week - Question of the Week #27: Beachy Reads

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris. It's a collection of essays. Funny! Funny! Funny! A great read!. An easy read. A fun read.

Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography

I read. I don't waste time.

Etc. - Question of the Week #18:"Liberty or Death!"

"I do want to get rich...but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich." --Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography

Etc. - Question of the Week #16: Favorite Female Writers

Lisa See. Have you read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan? Best book ever.

Etc. - Question of the Week: Special CEO Edition

I would suggest anything by Anna Quindlen. Perhaps, A Short Guide to a Happy Life.