Since when was Ginger a leopard? I thought he was a tomcat or something similar?

*joins the Elinor Dashwood group*

I'm quite happy (although not at all surprised) with that result. Elinor is such a lovely character.

Enjoy Anne's House of Dreams! That's one of my favorites; some of the characters are simply beautiful. Are you reading through all of the Anne books?

Apparently audible.com, an audiobook download site, has started offering a month's trial that includes a free audiobook you keep even if you cancel your subscription.

Oooh, I'll have to check this out! The Amanda Root Jane Eyre is something I've had my eye on for awhile.

I admit some things are hard to understand, and I didn't particularly care for the final chapter.

Really? I loved the final chapter (I assume you mean Screwtape's last letter?), especially the description of the patient shedding his earthly self and seeing the weight he'd never realized he had fall away. Is there a certain reason you didn't care for it?

I'm hoping to start the Pendragon Cycle soon by Stephen R. Lawhead. I've heard they're really good.

I've read his King Raven series (a Welsh reworking of the Robin Hood legend) and loved it. Really well-done, with a rather Tolkienish feel at some points. Anyway, please do tell me how you like the Pendragon Cycle!

Hello Rachel111! Good book choices! Have you read Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest?

arabesque, how are you liking Northanger Abbey? I think it's Austen's most overtly funny novel. Some of Henry Tilney's lines...

I am finding myself thinking of Lewis run for the rest of the year. Read everything Lewis ever wrote. I have read some of his work not all of it. Anyone have any suggestions what to read first?

Mere Christianity is a great, very thought-provoking read. However, I'm going to put in a word for Lewis' Space Trilogy. After the CoN, this is my favorite of his writings. It has the same richness and profound truth woven through a fantastic story as the Narnian Chronicles, and his portrayal of spiritual warfare is fascinating.
Whatever you choose, though, you'll end up with a good book!

Well, I made it to Barnes and Noble yesterday and picked up The Mill on the Floss and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Both books were under eight dollars and my library doesn't have either, so I was thrilled to find them! I'm really looking forward to The Idiot(my first Russian classic), but I started Mill first since it's quite a bit shorter.

I'm really enjoying Mill so far. Eliot's prose is beautiful and evocative as always, especially in the first chapter; her description of the area around the Floss is stunning. And as for the Tullivers:

I'll be starting my worldview course for this year soon. Here's my reading list- really long....

How Should We Then Live?

Let Us Highly Resolve

Francis A Schaeffer: Trilogy

The Universe Next Door

Genesis in Space and Time

Affliction

The Iliad

The Odyssey

The Aeneid

Republic

The City of God

Audio:

A Study of Job

Socrates [dramatized]

Plato [dramatized]

Aristotle [dramatized]

Augustus [dramatized]

Aquinas [dramatized]

Classical Composers

this is way more reading than I did last year. I hope I can make it!

re:above -- I read The Universe Next Door for a college class a number of years ago, and really enjoyed it.

I just finished a re-read of Watership Down. One of my most favorite books ever.

FF: Allan Quatermain also appears in the novel (1887) by the same name, which is the sequel to King Solomon's Mines (1885). It has the same trio, actually. But it's a great adventure with some lush descriptions. I fell in love with this book. And there are three prequels: Marie (1912), Child of Storm (1913), and Finished (1917). I've read only the first one. In it Allan is a young man. Missionaries appear in some of these novels, including Allan's father. So you're reading some of Kipling's stories. Great! What do you like so far?

NaiadWaker: I loved Charlotte Doyle! I even wrote a book review that sounded like a book jacket!

Glenstorm: interesting reading list! I've read parts of the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid. I admit I liked the middle one the best--for some plotlines. I've always wanted to read Plato's Republic and Augustine's City of God but never had the time or opportunity. But the length of both books is a little prohibitive. Classical composers: I'd love to know who!

The Iliad

The Odyssey

The Aeneid

More power to ya! I had to read book one of the Iliad and just couldn't stand it. Even the best translations are very difficult to understand. We did an in depth study of the work in a poetry class that I took this past spring.

I notice that the three poems you've chosen are three of the four recognised epic poems. You might as well add the other one on there too. I'm talking of course about Paradise Lost

I find Paradise Lost to be so utterly beautiful that I advise everybody to read it. A lot of people are ruined on the work because they're forced to read it in high school, but if you go back and read it just for fun, you realise that it really does show just how much God loves us, how horrible Satan is, how clever Satan is, and just how much God really is in control.

Any ways, time to get off of my Paradise Lost soapbox

While waiting for Poseidon's Steed (the seahorse book I've been reading while I can [it's still in processing at the library]) to arrive on my desk, I've been reading a short book I picked up at Barnes and Noble on Friday. It was in a "Bargain Bin" but it's a really interesting book. It's called Old Wives Tales: Fact or Folklore. 100 Popular Myths Revealed and Explained. Surprisingly enough it's about Wives Tales. It gives the science behind both the true and false ones, and is really fascinating. You'd be surprised just how many of our preconceived ideas are wrong, and just how many wive's tales that we consider to be nonsense, turn out to be true.

Any ways, it's a quick read, and I highly reccommend it. Here is the ISBN if anybody is interested.

9781435107557

Well, we studied The Iliad and The Aeneid in SS last year, but didn't have time to reach The Odyssey. The Trojan War is my favorite non-America-involved war in all of history.

I tried The Iliad a while ago and couldn't understand it...but that was 2005 when I was 11.

DiGoRyKiRkE: I actually didn't get to pick the books, but I'll probably try Paradise Lost sometime- sounds good!

I can't promise not to get distracted, though.

You mean we'd end up looking like this?

[quote="arabesque, about Princess of the Midnight Ball,":2wydrfqt]I kept thinking "How did he know how to do that?" or "Why did that happen?" and so on.....

The answer to "Why did that happen" is "That's the way it was in the original fairy tale". I liked it very much, and I think I'd even recommend it over Wildwood Dancing...

I got Elizabeth Bennet in the Austen Heroine quiz.

Alas, I've been absent from this thread for too long, and can only add a few comments...

Firstly, that's a very cute picture, Mel!

On Homer...I read the Illiad back in high school and didn't get a lot out of it. The action/adventure style of the Odyssey was more my style - and probably still is - when reading mythology.

jo, how's Sproul's Reformed Theology coming along? It was the first Sproul I read, and I liked it.

While perusing Half-Price Books this weekend I found a paperback containing the first 3 Books of Ember (The City of Ember, The People of Sparks, and The Prophet of Yonwood). I'd already read the first but couldn't refuse this one, especially at the price. Hopefully I'll begin the second story soon.

Meltintalle, so all of you look like Lego people? I knew it!

*just started Northanger Abbey last Saturday...*

So far I'm enjoying it! I haven't heard anything concerning the plot, or seen a movie or whatnot. So I have no clue how it's going to turn out, which I'm happy for. 😀 I want to be surprised this time!

While perusing Half-Price Books this weekend I found a paperback containing the first 3 Books of Ember (The City of Ember, The People of Sparks, and The Prophet of Yonwood). I'd already read the first but couldn't refuse this one, especially at the price. Hopefully I'll begin the second story soon.

The second story is as good as the first one, if not better. The third one isn't as intriguing, IMO, since it's a prequel. I liked the fourth one most of all, though.

Smile, God's always watching!

Mel! That is hilarious! You even included Jo's LOTR leaf pendant! There's only one thing missing...ME! You know I work in a library, who better to sort books? I promise Dewey Decimal accuracy

stargazer: I read the first book of ember a while and ago and liked it but when I tried to read the second one it just dragged out to much for me. It was one of the very few books I've never finished.

where's this book sorting party?