Lesle’s Comments (group member since Feb 01, 2015)

Lesle’s comments from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.

Pam wrote: "Lesle- I have a very cool edition of Penguin island. It’s a hard cover in a slipcase and has..."

Is it a Heritage Press edition?

Pam I will look for one and see what I can find we can do a Buddy Read if you want! Im very interested in this author.

Lesle wrote: "I am still looking for a puzzle of some sort. I will let you know when I find one worthy of sharing lol..."

Wow what a find!

Sticker Jigsaw: Pride and Prejudice


Did you know they make Sticker Puzzle books? There are all sorts out there. I like that I do not have to use up the only table I have for a puzzle while having the boys. I can take it outside even!!

My new found love Stickers and Book!!

Rosemarie wrote: "I've read 24 of them."

That is alot. I think I counted 3!

Rosemarie wrote: "I read The Revolt of the Angels and enjoyed it. It's not a typical novel but it is lots of fun."

I was looking at:
Penguin Island (1908; French: L'Île des Pingouins) is a satirical fictional history which satirizes human nature by depicting the transformation of penguins into humans – after the birds have been baptized by mistake by the almost-blind Abbot Mael.

Have you read this one?

Rosemarie wrote: "I've read 24 of them."

Out of those have your read Anatole France before?
He is on here a couple times.

34. South Wind (Norman Douglas)

I forgot I had it! In slip cover version!!

Planning on finishing some links later today hopefully.

Melanie I found it quite interesting. Thought I had a few books lol

Just a small list:

Signa by Ouida
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Rudyard Kipling’s complete works — whom he read “quite steadily”
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer’s works
A Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
Paradise Lost by John Milton — companion on his first voyage to the Yukon
Through the Gold Fields of Alaska by Harry De Windt — “as well as other books about the region . . . the Klondike was London’s great and most important adventure and literary resource”
William Shakespeare’s complete works
Voices of the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning
Lord Alfred Tennyson’s works
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Robert Louis Stevenson’s complete works
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce
The Cynic’s Word Book by Ambrose Bierce (later retitled The Devil’s Dictionary)
The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane
The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Primer of Philosophy by Paul Carus
Foster’s Complete Hoyle (card game encyclopedia)
Leo Tolstoy’s complete works
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Joseph Conrad’s complete works (only near the end of his life did London feel worthy of writing letters to Conrad as a peer)
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse — “provided him with information about canine behavior”
My Dogs In The Northlandby Egerton Young — “gave him accurate data about the traits of sled dogs”
Elinor Glyn’s novels — which London liked so much he wrote the author asking for autographed copies
The Social Unrest: Studies in Labor and Socialist Movements by John Brooks
Henrik Ibsen’s plays
Our Benevolent Feudalism by William James Ghent
Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
Rooseveltian fact and fable / by Mrs. Annie Riley Hale ; illustrated by Will H. Chandlee. 1912 Leather Bound by Annie Hale
Oscar Wilde’s non-fiction works
Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum — read with Charmian, who wrote: “It was the book that got us started planning our own trip”
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair — read multiple times, including once by Charmian who read it aloud to Jack
The Fat of the Land: The Story of an American Farm by John Streeter — for building his ranch; “especially for information about the best kind of chickens to buy, the perfect hog pen, and other helpful farming hints”
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea by Richard Dana — for which he wrote an introduction
The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
Thomas Carlyle’s works
Foxe's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
Geronimo: My Life by Geronimo
Studies In Deductive Logic - A Manual For Students by William Jevons
Fishing for Pleasure and Catching It. Two Chapters on Angling in North Wales by Edward Marston
Moby-Dick or, The Whaleby Herman Melville
Typee by Herman Melville
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Edgar Allan Poe’s complete works
Matthew Arnold’s works
John Ruskin’s works
The Practice of Medicine with Especial Reference to the Use of Active Principles and Other Definite Methods by William Francis Waugh
Psychology of the Unconscious by Carl Jung — London wrote that “It is big stuff”; his copy contains over 300 notations, more than any other in his library

I regard books in my library in much the same way that a sea captain regards the charts in his chart-room. It is manifestly impossible for a sea captain to carry in his head the memory of all the reefs, rocks, shoals, harbors, points, lighthouses, beacons, and buoys of all the coasts of all the world; and no sea captain ever endeavors to store his head with such a mass of knowledge. What he does is to know his way about in the chartroom, and when he picks up a new coast, he takes out the proper chart and has immediate access to all information about that new coast. So it should be with books.

I, for one, never can have too many books; nor can my books cover too many subjects. I may never read them all, but they are always there, and I never know what strange coast I am going to pick up at any time in sailing the world of knowledge. –Jack London

Given the prominent role that books played in Jack London’s life, it’s no surprise that part of what he most looked forward to in building Wolf House — his dream home — was being able to retreat to its large study, underneath which, connected by a spiral staircase, would sit a large library where he could store his collection of 15,000 books (which was so large, it had until then been stockpiled in various locations).

Jim not sure why the title is not updated yet. When I click on it-it is changed? Just weird. Decided since AI has taken over Google I decided to see what my title meant. I though I had made it up lol.

"Appalachian Bibliophile" is not a widely known term, but it evokes the history of the Pack Horse Library Project, where "bookwomen" delivered books on horseback during the Great Depression to bring literacy and cultural connection to remote Appalachian communities.

There are Classic Authors in this list I have never even heard of and books as well.

Rosemarie have you seen this list before?

James wrote: "Touche, Lesleye. ;)"

Hahaha!! That made me giggle and smile thank you!

James wrote: "Lesle, if your parents left your "i" out, does it mean you're half-blind?"

Oh that is too funny!

Correction for you...that would be "eye"

Samantha and anyone else interested:
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. One Volume Abridged Edition By D. M. Low.
Hardcover is red cloth with just an embossing of letter of EG in an oval.
It is an abridged version by D.M. Low at 924 pages. I decided to go ahead and get it whether we read it as a group or not. I have been interested in this history for a long time now. I think it will take me quite a while to read it even though it is condensed. I do not think I will be able to read it straight through without mind breaks.

David Morrice Low (1890 – 24 June 1972) was a British academic, biographer and abridger.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

He created a significant one-volume abridgement of Edward Gibbon's monumental work. Published around 1960. This abridged edition was published by Harcourt, Brace and Company with Low's aim to preserve Gibbon's "incomparable literary skill" while reducing the work's overall size.

James wrote: "It's 67°F (about 19.5°C) and raining here"

We had rain all day yesterday pretty much.
It only got up to 68 degrees. Today is just sunny and hopefully reaches 66 today.

James wrote: " Neither, by the way, is your tag; it's Appalachian (not Appalachain) Bibliophile...."
I lived in Berkeley, CA, USA, when I've lived in the Philadelphia, PA region
I just thought you had moved and not updated it. Oh well.

Haha!!
Well you can see transposition is the name of the game! lol
I fixed it. Hopefully it will update in the next day or so.

Back history:
I was named after my Father Leslie. They just left my "i" out.
Parents what can we say...

Lindenblatt wrote: .We are already well past 100 contributions now 👏👏👏..."

Thank you so much!! Congratulations to all of us for reaching this.
More than I every thought would happen.

I am still looking for a puzzle of some sort. I will let you know when I find one worthy of sharing lol

Anyone else have plans for something to do with Austen for her 250 BD Celebration?

Leona that is cold! Burr
Time for a cup of hot tea or coffee this morning!

Good morning Jim!

It is awesome to see you and that huge smile!! Thank you for sharing.