I still need more suggestions on great books to read, any suggestion? I got some here in this thread like, How to Kill A Mockingbird and Oliver Twist.

what kind of books do you like? I really enjoy Pride and Prejudice, The Bell at Sealey Head, Mr Midshipman Hornblower, Sense and Sensibility, The Hobbit, Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Mary, Bloody Mary, Patience, Princess Catherine, Beware, Princess Elizabeth, Ella Enchanted, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tuck Everlasting, The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau, The Giver and Gathering Blue, Number the Stars, etc . Any of those would be a great read .

^^ Number The Stars was really good! I cried through that book!

@GTG: Sense and Sensibility looks good too, especially it's Jane Austen who wrote it. Hmm... Percy Jackson looks cool! I've heard lots of kids and teens love that book series.

Note: Well, I missed catching up in here from my other post, and now further on..so, I apologize before hand for the scattered state of being this post will be in.

Why don't we three do a War and Peace read through this summer? I'm game for reading it again, and perhaps if there's two or three of us doing it everyone will have a more pleasant experience.

Ooh, I'd love to do that. Thank-you for suggesting such a grand idea! I ditto Mal's question, what translation did you read?

Mel, seeing your comment to someone about 100 Cupboards, I've been getting the idea that it's in a series? (or something like that) Is it really? I've been really curious as to what happens.

Thanks for sharing the Attolia link, btw!

@Mal
Anywho, after all that rambling, the conclusion is that I decidedly love the Anne series.

I've also finished The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was an excellent book, for the most part. Extremely well written and to-the-point. I'll probably read it again.

I have finished some others but now I can't rememeber, so I'll go on to what I am reading:
-My Side of the Mountan by Jean Craighead [insert last name that I evidently have erred in remembering]. It's a modern novel (well, written and set in the 1950-60's, but the vocabulary and all is pretty modern.) about a boy, Sam Gribley, who lives in New York and runs away to live in the forest. (with his parent's permission)
It's mostly about his survival and all. I was expecting well...not so exactly sonorous adjectives and happenings (seem to have lost the word I'm looking for here), and a typical first-person book written by a middle-school age boy. And, I was surprise to find that it was very far from so.
It isn't a hard read but descriptions are lovely, and the fact it's in first-person increases it's quality even more. The main character is quite likable and gentle, so far. So..I'm liking it!

In other subjects, I saw something akin to Pride & Prejudice and Zombies: Little Vampire Women. It's about the four March sisters being vampires and Laurie wanting to join them. Oy... I don't want to be truculent so I'll stop here. It's a little humerous, actually.
I think that's it. *posts*

In other subjects, I saw something akin to Pride & Prejudice and Zombies: Little Vampire Women. It's about the four March sisters being vampires and Laurie wanting to join them. Oy... I don't want to be truculent so I'll stop here. It's a little humerous, actually.
I think that's it. *posts*

how could you say that it's humerous! I can't stand those kinds of books- I find them stupid and offensive . I started reading Jane Bites Back a long time ago but couldn't finish it b/c it was so untrue to the spirit of Jane Austen. I don't see the need to take classics and classic authors and add monsters to them. Who cares about the vampire/scary creature craze going on right now ! Sorry just venting a little .

^^ Number The Stars was really good! I cried through that book!

me too! I need to re-read it sometime. I think I have a copy somehwere...

@GTG: Sense and Sensibility looks good too, especially it's Jane Austen who wrote it. Hmm... Percy Jackson looks cool! I've heard lots of kids and teens love that book series.

yes S&S is my second favorite Austen, the first being P&P. And Percy Jackson is very good. I really really love those books. Great if you like action and sarcastic humor and lovable characters. Some tearful moments too. I found myself constantly laughing or crying in these books .

Glenstorm the Great you read already all Percy Jacksons's?! Wow! Do tell me some great parts or just feedbacks of it. Maybe I might buy them if I got good feedbacks about it.

^hehe, yes I did! I really really loved them. Do you mind spoilers? I don't want to give away anything...

I've been reading TTT but I think I'm going to put it down yet again to read Til We Have Faces... .

Oh I see. But I really am looking forward on reading Percy Jackson.
So what's Til We Have Faces all about? If you don't mind me asking.

how could you say that it's humerous! I can't stand those kinds of books- I find them stupid and offensive . I started reading Jane Bites Back a long time ago but couldn't finish it b/c it was so untrue to the spirit of Jane Austen. I don't see the need to take classics and classic authors and add monsters to them. Who cares about the vampire/scary creature craze going on right now ! Sorry just venting a little .

Ahaha. I agree with you. And, I was completely outraged that someone would think themselves neat if they took an amazing book and vampire-ized it (considering the nauseous amount of vampire novels that stock bookstores these days, I must be frank.) but when I read that blunt summary, "The four March sisters are big, bad, scary vampires and oooh, Laurie wants to join them!" [slightly shortened and paraphrased] I couldn't help but crack up a bit at it's foolishness. I do find it very unamusing what they're doing to good classics, but it sure did get a laugh out of me how utterly absurd it was.
However, I do not find zombies, vampires, etc other fictional freak characters funny, nor do I find their presence in lovely, calm books funny. "Little Vampire Women", "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and other related books make me pretty squirmish and upset, but the foolishness behind them is quite funny.

^ah I see your point . Sometimes I read things just b/c they're so stupid it's funny, but it also has to be worth my while, and not anger me, for me to laugh at it's stupidity .

sandy: Yay I hope you enjoy them!

I don't mind at all . It a fiction about a Greek love story- between Cupid and Psyche. I don't know much about it. I was going to read it a while ago but didn't get to it for some reason. I'm determined to read it this time .

Glenstorm the Great: Nice! Haha. Never heard of that story but it surely sounds amazing, by how you told me the story was. Cupid and Psyche love story? Who's Psyche? Cupid is the only one who sounds very familiar to me. Hihi. .

Psyche was a mortal girl who Aphrodite commanded Cupid to kill because she was too beautiful but Cupid scratched himself with one of his arrows and fell in love with her . I think the book might be a different take on the myth though...

Oh.. that sounds coool. haha. I love romantic stories. Who wrote it? I would love to search that book.

Haha, C.S. Lewis wrote it.

I also highly recommend the Percy Jackson books. They are, in a word, amazing.

P.S."Brooklyn!"

Rising Star : Oh! Haha. I didn't know that but thanks, . Now I know and gonna search it. Thanks again!

I hope you guys have great feedbacks on Oliver Twist. .