ladydi is currently reading The Pilgrim's Progress and Byron's Poetical Works.
I’m 48 years old, female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since February 26, 2009. My reading interests include slave narratives, civ. war, Catholic, classics, and hist. novels.
Books
- The Pilgrim's Progress 30% complete
- The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories 49% complete
- Byron's Poetical Works 20% complete
- The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare 54% complete
- The Arabian Nights 4% complete
- 30 Stories in 30 Days 100% complete
- The Way of All Flesh 17% complete
- The Devil's Dictionary finished
- Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life finished
- Little Lord Fauntleroy finished
- Sonnets from the Portuguese finished
- Poems of William Blake finished
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin finished
- Villette finished
- Spirits in Bondage finished
- Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer finished
- America's Greatest Hits finished
- Walden finished
- Divine Comedy - The Paradise finished
- Divine Comedy - The Purgatory finished
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band finished
- Book: The Sequel finished
- Agnes Grey finished
- 3 Short Reads by Edgar Allan Poe finished
- Emma finished
- Divine Comedy - The Inferno finished
- Behind a Mask finished
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The Black Monk finished
- Jabberwocky finished
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A Doctor's Visit finished
- Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters suspended
- Jo's Boys suspended
- Little Men suspended
Posts
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Yikes!
She hated spiders with a passion beyond reason. And for eight, long, creeping years he reveled in this knowledge.
Grinning wickedly, he wove the finishing touches into his tale. The final spin contained a perfectly compelling amount of particulars and pathos.
He heard her screaming bloody murder in the distance.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Tea For Two
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Brownie Points
The scheming hostess bit into her carefully procured serving of the delectable chocolate morsel - pondering what was just said. Her companion smiled with a sickeningly sated look and placed her untouched dessert down.
She shuddered realizing the table had been cunningly turned and helplessly gulped back the growing acrid taste.
Reader Challenges - Summer Vacation in Six Words
Loved your for-sale statement jgreen0-says it all. Also liked yours about corn lanky. I wish everyone currently unemployed or underemployed much luck in the job search, and wish to say to all of us living during this summer of difficult times to remain hopeful and upbeat as the seasons will in time change and each has its own beauty-sometimes you just have to search a little more closely.
Reader Challenges - Summer Vacation in Six Words
Sweet sunsets, bitter regrets, wintertime's yet.
Reader Challenges - Summer Vacation in Six Words
Reading at ease beneath the trees.
Reader Challenges - Book Sequel Challenge
Sequel to Emma by Jane Austen
Diminishing Bliss & Something Amiss
By outward appearances she seemed the picture of contented loveliness as she methodically moved her charcoal pencil across the paper, rendering yet another praiseworthy and extremely mediocre caricature of her unsuspecting subject; while inwardly her mind was diligently scheming and mapping out a precision plan for severing the “perfect” bond between them.
Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography
Spending my life, preparing to die.
Etc. - 50 Word Challenge
Mr. Nice Guy
As had generations before her, she had faithfully lived up to the unblemished family tradition - perfectly imitating its altruistic philosophy. He, her only grandchild, had destroyed that loving legacy with one despicable act, tarnishing their good name forever. These were her thoughts as she lie alone on the blood-soaked floor.
Comment: That was a very difficult (I tend to be wordy), but extremely fun challenge. I'm assuming that the 50 word requirement for the mini-sage doesn't include its title (?), three words in my case.
A Doctor's Visit - A Doctor's Visit was true remedy for this book lover.
I have read some of Chekhov's writings in the past, and enjoyed this story for the same reasons as the others. His character descriptions (though not necessarily spelled out exactly, but rather also derived by the reader from the setting and other characters and the situation within the story itself) are absolutely wonderful. I feel I know them both outwardly by appearance and inwardly by human qualities and structure. This is compelling to me and causes me to anxiously read on. If you want a concrete ending or solution, however, this is not the author for you. He doesn't exactly spell that out for you either. That's another reason I like his work. He makes you wonder and think a little. I think a room of people would come up with several different conclusions or summations, and they'd probably all be plausable. Exactly what did the author intend to convey with this story? That is the question with, I believe, many answers.