tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post7754200702187989348..comments2023-09-01T03:37:31.410-06:00Comments on marta writes: i heart booksmartahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15027406340527614561noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post-87293398205260584142007-09-09T11:53:00.000-06:002007-09-09T11:53:00.000-06:00Two of my all time favourite Canadian classics are...Two of my all time favourite Canadian classics are Barometer Rising by Hugh Maclennan and The Diviners by Margaret Laurence. I've read them both many times and feel like I learn something new about myself each time I read them. <BR/><BR/>*melanie from www.meli-mello.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post-76121018681403484092007-09-09T07:38:00.000-06:002007-09-09T07:38:00.000-06:00I don't know if this is a classic, but every woman...I don't know if this is a classic, but every woman should read this book - 'Drinking The Rain' by Alix Kates Shulman. I must have read it 100 times and it hasn't left my bedside table in five years - except for when I go travelling, when I take it with me ;-)Albahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16517106038745349585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post-19755677188899359132007-09-08T22:38:00.000-06:002007-09-08T22:38:00.000-06:00My favorite classics are Bleak House by Dickens, T...My favorite classics are Bleak House by Dickens, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Hardy (I think I have a thing for tragedies), The Tempest by Shakespeare, Silas Marner by George Eliot, and Les Miserables, 1984, and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01178002862683444151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post-57873994688721719222007-09-08T16:54:00.000-06:002007-09-08T16:54:00.000-06:00To Kill a Mockingbird is my book-obsession. I rea...To Kill a Mockingbird is my book-obsession. I read it every summer and always keep a copy with me. My favorite copy has this written in the front of it:<BR/><BR/>"The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it."<BR/>-anderson cooperamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00812864080605275078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post-43849934058406642882007-09-08T10:19:00.000-06:002007-09-08T10:19:00.000-06:00I love that quote too. It's so true. I love coming...I love that quote too. It's so true. I love coming back to a favorite book and finding that I have a better understanding than before. I love history and the classics mostly. I love books that (this is a lame way to explain it) but I love books that when you have read them, it feels like your head has been broken open and expanded to a whole new world. I recently read Team of Rivals and that was the sort of book it was... I just could not believe all the things that I learned. My husband and I read it together and it was all we could talk about for 6 weeks.love.boxeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02450621259116289517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post-60488244938671611672007-09-07T20:54:00.000-06:002007-09-07T20:54:00.000-06:00I too LOVE Jane Eyre. But one of my all time favo...I too LOVE Jane Eyre. But one of my all time favorites (next to Tolkien's <I>The Lord of the Rings</I>), would have to be Bram Stoker's <I>Dracula</I>.<BR/><BR/>Whenever anyone would ask what I would do with my money if I were a millionaire (you know, in one of those first-day-of-school-get-to-know-you-surveys), my answer was, and is, the same: a HUGE library full of books, with those mobile ladders thingies. <BR/><BR/>Oh, and one of my dreams is to own a little book shop, just like the one in "You've Got Mail", with a little whole foods cafe. *sigh* <BR/>--B{B}dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03257136520394629440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post-33854957321272484192007-09-07T18:00:00.000-06:002007-09-07T18:00:00.000-06:00To Kill A Mockingbird is probably the book that ha...To Kill A Mockingbird is probably the book that has stuck with me the most. Also East of Eden and The Sun Also Rises.Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881407681016424407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post-7553309626680345892007-09-07T17:58:00.000-06:002007-09-07T17:58:00.000-06:00I must have read Pride & Prejudice about a thousan...I must have read Pride & Prejudice about a thousand times in the last few years. It's definitely a 'girly' book, but it's one of my favorites :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post-5472303808439635312007-09-07T17:56:00.000-06:002007-09-07T17:56:00.000-06:00that quote is marvelous-- i just might have to bor...that quote is marvelous-- i just might have to borrow it. :) can't wait to see what shows up in the mini mart. megxxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36513923.post-48023340340301969022007-09-07T16:35:00.000-06:002007-09-07T16:35:00.000-06:00I loved Jane Eyre. And also, the Greek Myths. Ev...I loved Jane Eyre. And also, the Greek Myths. Evangeline by Longfellow, is a book-like poem that I read one Thanksgiving time, and it's beautiful.Travelin'Omahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18415472674768977723noreply@blogger.com