Captain Yesterday (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} basje) wrote,@ 2009-06-06 10:49:00 |
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[pretty little rags & bones]
I'm all ready for the moustache party! It's in two weeks :D
Just so this journal isn't just pictures of me, I want to write down what I've been reading, because I've been reading a lot, and maybe we can recommend eachother books for summer reading.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincy
This book was quite interesting and fun in the beginning, and grew more boring gradually. It still was really nice though, and filled with opium dreams.
East Lynne - Mrs Henry Wood
I'm in the middle of reading this over at![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
serialsensation and so far, it's really nice, but a little confusing, because there are soooo many characters. For a Victorian novel, it's fairly fast-paced, which is nice.
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
I would not recommend it unless you like reading twenty consecutive pages about the differences between Christians and Jews, and people looking for their identity. It's nice, but it's fairly boring.
An Oldfashioned Girl - Louisa M. Alcott
If you thought Little Women was sentimental and too cutesy, you should reaaally not read this. It's about a rich girl who is spoiled and dislikes her life, and a poor girl who is always morally right, and helps others along because she's always smiling and working hard. The end made me cry a lot, but I generally cry over books.
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
I read all except the last one, I got it as an e-book here: http://www.truly-free.org/. I'm really enjoying them a lot, and they also make me cry. If you only saw the movies, you should give them a shot, because they make excellent reading.
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
I got this one from the same site because Faulkner's books aren't in the public domain yet. I haven't finished it but so far it's really nice, really Faulkner-ish, about the south of the US, a rural area, and someone who is dying.
Lots of things by Wilde but most specifically The Decay of Lying, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, Pen, Pencil and Poison, The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
I read a lot of Wilde's plays but in my head they all muddle together, and I never know what I've read. I like his stories a lot more: there are some amazing fairytales, and everything mentioned above (except the Decay of Lying, which was a little boring) are great stories, really engaging and quite unusual.
I'm all ready for the moustache party! It's in two weeks :D
Just so this journal isn't just pictures of me, I want to write down what I've been reading, because I've been reading a lot, and maybe we can recommend eachother books for summer reading.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincy
This book was quite interesting and fun in the beginning, and grew more boring gradually. It still was really nice though, and filled with opium dreams.
East Lynne - Mrs Henry Wood
I'm in the middle of reading this over at
serialsensation and so far, it's really nice, but a little confusing, because there are soooo many characters. For a Victorian novel, it's fairly fast-paced, which is nice. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
I would not recommend it unless you like reading twenty consecutive pages about the differences between Christians and Jews, and people looking for their identity. It's nice, but it's fairly boring.
An Oldfashioned Girl - Louisa M. Alcott
If you thought Little Women was sentimental and too cutesy, you should reaaally not read this. It's about a rich girl who is spoiled and dislikes her life, and a poor girl who is always morally right, and helps others along because she's always smiling and working hard. The end made me cry a lot, but I generally cry over books.
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
I read all except the last one, I got it as an e-book here: http://www.truly-free.org/. I'm really enjoying them a lot, and they also make me cry. If you only saw the movies, you should give them a shot, because they make excellent reading.
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
I got this one from the same site because Faulkner's books aren't in the public domain yet. I haven't finished it but so far it's really nice, really Faulkner-ish, about the south of the US, a rural area, and someone who is dying.
Lots of things by Wilde but most specifically The Decay of Lying, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, Pen, Pencil and Poison, The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
I read a lot of Wilde's plays but in my head they all muddle together, and I never know what I've read. I like his stories a lot more: there are some amazing fairytales, and everything mentioned above (except the Decay of Lying, which was a little boring) are great stories, really engaging and quite unusual.
