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I’m female. I’ve been a DailyLit member since April 24, 2009. My reading interests include Classics, and Mysteries.
Books
- Kaplan SAT Prep Program finished
- Berlitz DailyLit Spanish Lessons finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Famous Spies finished
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The Three Musketeers finished
- Moby Dick finished
- The Moonstone finished
- The Mysterious Island finished
- Dracula finished
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea finished
- Wikipedia Tour: World Capitals finished
- The Aeneid finished
- The Republic finished
- Wikipedia Tour: The Presidents of the United States finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Wonders of the World finished
- Madame Bovary finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Greek Mythology finished
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Famous Inventors finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Major World Religions finished
- The Adventures of Sally finished
- The Secret Agent finished
- The Scarlet Pimpernel finished
- King Solomon's Mines finished
- The Lost World finished
- Frankenstein finished
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles finished
- The Sign of the Four finished
- Beowulf finished
- Antony and Cleopatra finished
- Pygmalion finished
- Bible: 2nd Book of Moses (Exodus) finished
- Divine Comedy - The Inferno finished
- Electra of Sophocles finished
- Antigone finished
- Alcestis finished
- Common Sense finished
- Poetics finished
- Holiday Romance finished
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow finished
- Dream Psychology suspended
Posts
Etc. - Question of the Week #19: Favorite Poems
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost or "Hidden Joys" by Laman Blanchard. :)
Reader Challenges - What's Your Sentence?
Work in progress.
Question of the Week - Special Election Day Question
I'd totally vote for Athos from "The Three Musketeers." :)
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #62: Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!
Great Expectations. I loved the story, but I was disappointed a little by the ending.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #68: Autobiographies
"The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller. It's amazing the way she talks about things with such joy and wonder. From her descriptions, you could never tell she was blind and deaf.
Etc. - Question of the Week #19: Favorite Poems
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
Etc. - Question of the Week #18:"Liberty or Death!"
Typo. OR nothing. Sorry. :)
Etc. - Stupid Plot Ideas
Ha ha. That's a good one.
Reader Challenges - Your Words That Matter
Before you criticize people, just remember that everyone in the world hasn't had the same advantages that you've had.
Courtesy of "The Great Gatsby". One of my favorites. :)
Good one, fedextex!
Reader Challenges - Love Bites
He hadn't seen her in a long time. She ran to him and kissed him. Despite how they had fought against it, they were in love.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #54: Happy Birthday Ms. Austen
The perfect guy. She was never married. I think we all could use one of those.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #59: Authors Speak
Helen Keller.
@donnalynn - I second that!
Reader Challenges - 2010 Wishes in One Sentence
I'm not going to hope too big, so....
What I wish for 2010 is to finish and publish my first novel.
Reader Challenges - Encounter with an Angel
I had been praying for a miracle. Lost in thought, I had barely avoided getting hit by a car. Luckily, a woman pulled me out of the way just in time.
"You saved my life.”
The woman replied, "It's my job."
"What?"
“I’m an angel. The miracle you asked for.”
Reader Challenges - Tea with the Queen
"I'll take half a cup," the Mad Hatter said. He sawed the cup in half as the Queen watched, horrified.
Etc. - Translators and Abridgements
I hate that, too. Translator doesn't bug me, but I like to know if I'm getting the whole story.
Etc. - Stupid Plot Ideas
Have you ever read a book and come across something totally unbelievable? Something you would of redone or not included?
My example: Several years ago, during my Nancy Drew phase, I read this one book where the villain puts Nancy Drew and Ned in a room containing a giant steaming pool with a tiny ledge to stand on. This just seems like a bad idea all around. Why not just push them in the pool? Or throwing them to the zoo of carniverous animals the guy is housing in his backyard? And the one thing that got me was why have a steaming pool at all? Why on earth would you spend the money to heat and maintain the steaming pool on the offchance someone comes along to foil your evil plot? Aren't there easier, cheaper ways of killing off the good guy? This book was the end of my Nancy Drew phase.
Anyone else have a good one?
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #44: Best Banned Books
Most of these I totally get. Bur Charlotte's Web? Seriously? Winie the Pooh? Kids not even old enough for elementary school can read these. Why were these banned?
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #42: Whodunnit?
Agatha Christies' Hercule Poirot has always absolutely delighted me. He's so quirky, almost OCD, with a strange way of investigating. He makes me laugh. "Murder on the Orient Express" is my favorite. Also the first I read. I also love Sherlcok Holmes. I love Monk and Psych on TV.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #41: Back to School
This year for English, I have to read "The Red Badge of Courage", "Animal Farm", and "Romeo & Juliet". They are all great reads, though Shakespeare is definitely the best!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #33: Go International
Alexandre Dumas. I love his writing.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #32: Guilty Pleasures
Agatha Christie mysteries.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #35: Literary Friends
Tarzan, D'Artagnan, or Huck Finn would be the best friends. Professor Challenger or anyone like him would be the worst. Our personalities would clash.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #37: Where to?
Neverland or Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #38: Books on Repeat
"Jane Eyre". I don't read the whole book, but I read select chapters over and over.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie strikes again.
This book was a wonderful read. Agatha Christie tripped me again. I was reading this out loud, actually, and when I came to the killer's name, I nearly shouted it. I was very surprised.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - best bookever i saw
I agree.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #30: Books Go To Camp
I used to read Nancy Drews, but it changed to Agatha Christies the first time I read "Murder on the Orient Express" when I was 11.
Etc. - Title = a person's name.
Cinderella.
Snow White.
Black Beauty.
Alice in Wonderland.
The Tale of Despereaux.
jtrammel, you beat me to Tarzan.
Etc. - Title = a person's name.
Romeo and Juliet.
Antony and Cleopatra.
Oliver Twist.
Frankenstein.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
I have more Shakespeare that fit, too. He really didn't have much of an imagination with names, did he?
Etc. - Birds in the title.
The Ugly Duckling.
Etc. - Title has a color / colors in it!
So easy! The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emuska Orczy.
Reader Challenges - Classics in 6 Words
Pride & Prejudice: They end up together. The End.
Etc. - Dinner Anyone?
Moses
The apostle John. (Or Matthew, Mark, or Luke. I'd invite all four of them together if I could.)
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
H.G. Wells.
Charles Dickens.
Etc. - Question of the Week #7: Holiday Edition
I'm with goatrancher. The Bible. Everyone should at least read it before they decide what they believe.
Etc. - Question of the Week #12: Unfinished Books
There are several books I tried when I was younger and gave up on, but I never leave a book unfinished anymore.
Etc. - Question of the Week #16: Favorite Female Writers
Agatha Christie. No contest. Writes the best mysteries I've ever heard of. Also, the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen.
Etc. - Question of the Week #18:"Liberty or Death!"
Life is either a daring adventure of nothing.
Helen Keller.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #3: Which books scare you?
1984. Oddly enough, it scared me more than the Phantom of the Opera or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #4: Pick Your President
Robin Hood.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #13: Love is in the Air (or Book)
Tarzan. No question. I had the biggest crush on him after I read the books. I love him for his commitment to Jane.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #6: Where would you go?
Israel. The Bible counts as literature, too!
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #1: Who would you be?
Jim Hawkins from Treasure Island.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #23: Literature, Naturally
It's been a while, but something from "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #10: Dinner with Dickens?
H.G. Wells, Shakespeare, Helen Keller. But I would have to say Edgar Rice Burroughs is most intriguing. Or Moses.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #24: Lives in Writing
"The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller. It's beautiful. You almost forget that she's blind by the way she describes so vividly the scenes.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #26: Once upon a time...
I grew up with Disney. So mine are Alladin and Beauty and the Beast. If I had to pick one besides, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
Which book would you love to have a sequel for?
(Mine: Gone with the Wind, 1984)
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #20: Potent Quotables
"I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane."
1984, George Orwell
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just
remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages
that you've had."
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #8: Which books make good movies?
Jane Eyre was terrible as a movie. At least the one I saw. I loved Pride & Prejudice with Keira Knightly.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #29: Literary Dads
I like a lot of different ones for a lot of different reasons. There's Joe from Great Expectations, Mr. Bennett, the Vizier from Arabian Nights, Mr. Woodhouse from Emma (he means well), and Tarzan. It's so much easier to come up with my favorite fictional fathers than favorite factional mothers.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #27: Beachy Reads
Agatha Christie. Especially the beach-set or island-set ones.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #25: Memorable Mothers
Jane in The Beasts of Tarzan (the first in the series where she has a kid). She is very nurturing and cares about her child immensely.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #28: For Adults Only
Cresswga - I'm with you. I read 1984 a couple of weeks ago. It disturbed me a bit. I'm just a happy ending person. I misread the last line looking ahead. You can't imagine how disappointed I was. It did make me thankful for a lot of things, though.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #28: For Adults Only
Jane Eyre for me. I was about eleven or twelve. I saw something on a show I frequently watched with my mom and she told me it was like Jane Eyre. Well, that intrigued me enough. I picked up the book and ran with it, and it was wonderful. For a while, it was my favorite book. It made me interested in classics, and, after a while, very few books but classics. Though it has been overshadowed as favorite by a few books since, it's still one of the most beautiful romances to me.
The Three Musketeers - greatest book...ever.
Agreed.
The Three Musketeers - Pretty good
I disagree. Best book I've ever read.
The Three Musketeers - Sequence to the Series
Thanks! I've been wondering about that.
The Three Musketeers - The Three Musketeers
I'm with you!
The Three Musketeers - Wonderful!
My favorite book! It caught me up in the action and intrigue and made me laugh along the way. I loved it. Plan on reading all the books in the series, but I just bet none could top the original.
Reader Challenges - Book Sequel Challenge
Sequel to A Christmas Carol
A Halloween Song
"Marley was no longer dead."
Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography
You do not want to know.