Re: Books: 2nd Edition
Posted: Feb 21, 2017 8:51 pm
Jo, ah, perhaps Amazing Grace IS where I know Hannah More from then.
Please let me know what you think if you read any of the books from my list. And I hope you enjoy your new purchases!
Thanks for mentioning the series, stwin! As it turns out, I have heard of it before as some other friends have read it. However, the thing about it that comes to mind most rapidly is a comment my friend made the other day about the different viewpoints in the series and how she would skip the boring ones and find out what was happening with the more interesting ones (she did go back and read the ones she skipped).
I finished Middlemarch. It turns out my idea of a good/happy ending was not the same as the author's. I thought there would be more deaths and less changes of mind than there were. I guess it didn't help that I never liked Ladislaw so I didn't like him marrying Dorothea in the end. For a while there, I really thought Rosamund would die or run off with Ladislaw; in the first case, I thought Dorothea would marry Lydgate. It's just that they would've worked really well together, with his visions and her desire to help and do projects. And she pretty much just threw that away when she married Ladislaw??? I was definitely with Sir James on this one. And Rosamund and Lydgate had a semi-repaired marriage but it was never really good? At least Fred and Mary had a happy marriage. I didn't like what was done with Mr. Bulstrode, but the scene where Mrs. Bulstrode comes down and sits with him, determined to be with him in this instance of "for worse" was quite touching. Overall, Eliot had a good grasp of human nature, but I wouldn't say I really enjoyed the book.
I'm almost done with Thirteen Detectives - just one more story to go. I've stuck The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien in my bag to start as well.
Does anyone have any thoughts about what to do with books that are falling apart and/or missing pages? I can't really donate them, and I feel a bit bad about just trashing them. I'm sure there are art projects or crafts that could be done with them.
Please let me know what you think if you read any of the books from my list. And I hope you enjoy your new purchases!
Thanks for mentioning the series, stwin! As it turns out, I have heard of it before as some other friends have read it. However, the thing about it that comes to mind most rapidly is a comment my friend made the other day about the different viewpoints in the series and how she would skip the boring ones and find out what was happening with the more interesting ones (she did go back and read the ones she skipped).
I finished Middlemarch. It turns out my idea of a good/happy ending was not the same as the author's. I thought there would be more deaths and less changes of mind than there were. I guess it didn't help that I never liked Ladislaw so I didn't like him marrying Dorothea in the end. For a while there, I really thought Rosamund would die or run off with Ladislaw; in the first case, I thought Dorothea would marry Lydgate. It's just that they would've worked really well together, with his visions and her desire to help and do projects. And she pretty much just threw that away when she married Ladislaw??? I was definitely with Sir James on this one. And Rosamund and Lydgate had a semi-repaired marriage but it was never really good? At least Fred and Mary had a happy marriage. I didn't like what was done with Mr. Bulstrode, but the scene where Mrs. Bulstrode comes down and sits with him, determined to be with him in this instance of "for worse" was quite touching. Overall, Eliot had a good grasp of human nature, but I wouldn't say I really enjoyed the book.
I'm almost done with Thirteen Detectives - just one more story to go. I've stuck The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien in my bag to start as well.
Does anyone have any thoughts about what to do with books that are falling apart and/or missing pages? I can't really donate them, and I feel a bit bad about just trashing them. I'm sure there are art projects or crafts that could be done with them.