About Me

I rescue "old" books. I have around 300; I clean them out periodically, sending those I can part with to the public library. I hate paperback books and will only buy one if forced to.

My BookLists

• Books Read (1)
  • Famous Modern Ghost Stories
    by Various
• Books to Read (3)
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    by Dickens, Charles
  • The Gloria Scott
    by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
  • The Moonstone
    by Collins, Wilkie
• To-Read (1)
  • Ligeia
    by Poe, Edgar Allan

Browse BookLists

• The Moonstone finished
• Famous Modern Ghost Stories finished
• The Last of the Mohicans unread
• The Man in the Iron Mask unread
• The Odyssey unread
• The Iliad unread
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn unread
• The Three Musketeers unread
• Ulysses unread
• The Count of Monte Cristo unread
• The Cask of Amontillado unread
• The Masque of the Red Death unread
• The Black Cat unread
• The Pit and the Pendulum unread
• The Tell-Tale Heart unread
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow unread
• Frankenstein unread
• Dracula unread

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

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean." - Maya Angelou

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Etc. - Question of the Week #12: Unfinished Books

I could never finish "Moby Dick" or "Billy Budd." Perhaps I just hate Herman Melville's style of writing? The first time I tried to read "Wuthering Heights" I gave up...but then, I was 12. I read it (all of it) when I was in my 20's and it finally made sense.

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