GlimGlum, Whenever I read the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit, I to think of the movie, I also picture their voices. I first read LOTR when I was eleven a couple of months after I had seen The Fellowship of the Ring in theaters , so I never pictured them looking any other way then they do in the movies.
And since The Hobbit was brought up, I'm planning on reading:

The Silmarillion
The Children of Húrin
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

I thought it would be fun to read them in historical order, I've never read The Silmarillion or The Children of Húrin
but have been wanting to for a while now and I haven’t read LOTR since the first time I had read it so I'm due to read them again.

GlimGlum, Whenever I read the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit, I to think of the movie, I also picture their voices.

Thanks for reminding me about the voices, 7chronicles. I have no doubt that the experience will be the same when I finally get to The Lord of the Rings.

Looks like you have a good plan there for reading Tolkien. Enjoy.

I snagged another Early Reviewers book on Library Thing. This makes my third book since I started trying for them earlier this year. This time it's Jane Bites Back, which is about Jane Austen being turned into a vampire and living on into modern times. Should be good for a laugh at least.

That's a nice list, lys. Everyone here got some nice books or gift cards for Christmas.

Booky, I don't even want to go there. Tell me what you think when you are done. I'm skeptical of these book ideas for Jane Austen and some others, but at least its not that idiotic Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, or that other Sea Monsters one that I heard about. *Shudders*

I'm reading Anne of Avonlea currently. I like it so far. The style is, obviously, different to some extent given Anne's status as an adult. *Funny thinking of a sixteen year old considered an adult back then. Oh well.*

Below I have my lists for 2010. I have my "To Read List" and my "To Reread List". I have a lot picked out to look at this year, and some newer ones that I am receiving the next few days will also go onto there. I doubt that I can read all 70-80 or so of them, but I can be ambitious, and see how far I can work into the list. In the Army, they always told us to try for the highest achievement possible, and when I do get less, it will be better than if I had tried for just average. So here they are. Click on the lists, and choose either list to look at.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/MereChristian

God bless all.

I bid you all adieu.

I'm long overdue for a post in here.

So all I asked for this Christmas was soundtracks and books. I got all the books on my Christmas list (aside from the HP books but there are a lot of those so I don't blame my parents for not getting those ).

What I got were:

So Not Happening, I'm So Sure, and Just Between You and Me by Jenny B. Jones
The Maya books in Melody Carlson's Diary of a Teenage Girl series (3 books there)
Maggie Come Lately by Michelle Buckman
Interception by Terri Blackstock
The Rescuer by Dee Henderson (last book in the O'Malley family series)
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix (a historical fiction set during the time of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire)
The Host by Stephenie Meyer (a book of hers that I actually like because of its redemptive storyline and the fact that the main character doesn't make me want to bash my head against the nearest wall )

P.S."Brooklyn!"

I've read some of Melody Carlson! I read the Chloe books (Diary of a Teenage Girl) but that's all of hers I've read. I really enjoyed them, are her other books good as well?

I'm about half way through Pirate Latitudes by the legendary Michael Crichton. It's awesome. End of story.

has anyone read any of John Flanagan's books? I am curious about his books!

Glenstorm the Great: I love Melody Carlson's books. I've read every single one of her young adult books (aside from maybe one or two). She's very realistic and sometimes a little gritty with her writing, but it's nice to see hard topics tackled by a Christian author rather than hear only the secular side of it. A couple of them have really helped me with some personal struggles of mine. Pointed me back to God with them.

P.S."Brooklyn!"

*already claimed*

Anybody like Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities? I have a copy I bought a while ago hoping to read the book, however I've given it two attempts now and find it difficult to enjoy beyond the classic opening.

If anybody would like it just PM me about it (free of course)
The book is in New Condition, a picture below:

*already claimed*

LibertyHoffman, there are quite a few of us on here who are Ranger's Apprentice fans. The first few are a bit of a LotR ripoff, but after they dispose of the Dark Lord, the books improve quite a bit.

I received a Books-A-Million gift card and money for Christmas, so I went on a shopping spree this week. I bought the following:

Marvel 1602: New World/Fantastick Four by Peter David & Greg Pak
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead by Max Brooks
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
The Dragon Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
Bleach #6 by Tite Kubo
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
100 Cupboards by N. D. Wilson
Gone by Michael Grant
The Islands of the Blessed by Nancy Farmer
Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

Anybody like Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities? I have a copy I bought a while ago hoping to read the book, however I've given it two attempts now and find it difficult to enjoy beyond the classic opening.

Really? That's too bad. I actually think it's an amazing book (for a classic that is). The ending is powerful.

Bookwyrm, there's some great books there.
Strangely enough I'm just about to read Scott Westerfield's 'Leviathan'. It looks so good - the premise, the illustrations - yum!

I spoke of River Jordan here, when I read her second book. (And there the link for her third book).

I finished a week ago her first book, The Gin Girl.
and like the other two it was amazing! I loved it.
Here, I can say though that I loved the other two better.
This one was a great start and all three deserve to be read, all are excellent reads.

I know this came up somewhere in the forum, but I don't remember where.

Someone pointed out earlier that C. S. Lewis took "Pevensie" from Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill. Well, I was reading bits from that book the other day and from Kipling's Egypt of the Magicians (1913) [a series of articles about Egypt for a newspaper]. In both books I came across the names "Lord Adam" and "Lady Eve," which appear in a few Narnia books, do they not? I'm not sure of the significance of this but I just thought I'd point it out.