Alysa’s Comments (group member since Feb 25, 2016)

Alysa’s comments from the éclectique group.

Hi fellow book friends, hope you are enjoying 2018! I made a vow that I was only going to read nonfiction this year. It isn’t going well. I just love stories too much! Anyone have a book they are really looking forward to that we could all read together?

If you didn't enjoy it then definitely skip the mugglnet collection. Feels like it was written by a different person.

Anyone have a copy yet? Ours is still in the mail.

I know what you mean! This is the first book I have purchased this year. Thank Heaven for the library! Ours almost went on strike Monday and I thought I was going to have a nervous break down waiting to hear. Everyone thought I was crazy. "But you don't understand!! It's the LIBRARY!!!!!!"

Ooooooo! Just ordered my copy from Indigo.ca! Thanks for the birthday gift card Megan! Anyone else reserved their copy yet? Or even better, anyone going to see the production? Previews start June 7th, correct? Next group read?

Finis. Sob. Oh Daniel. Just beautiful. Loved this book! 5 stars. What did you think?

Poor Daniel. And poor Snout too. Also, I hate Poot. It's such a great book, I'm so invested in the characters. I'm trying to sip instead of drink it all in one night.

Chapter 15 - It's exactly like a Jane Austen novel with all the ludicrous awful characters you love to hate: Bettina, Tillingham and Lucy - Lady Catherine, Mr. Collins and Lucy Steele.

On chapter 7 - I adore this book.

Apparently it is World Book Day, again. Well, I'm sure there are worse days to repeat more than once in a year. Please share what you are reading and enjoying today!

“What a blessing it is to love books.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

I'm on chapter three. I defy anyone to read this book without needing to go make a cup of tea. A scone would be nice too.

Just read this article in the Atlantic about how Millennials are reading more than older generations but how they value libraries less. I certainly appreciate mine! There is also a video at the end about various people's "greatest story ever told". What would yours be?

QNPB, I've added Catherine Called Bidy to my excessive to-read pile. I just have to keep it under 1000. Also, I've never read the American Girl books, are they good? Anne and Emily are our Canadian Girls. :) Oh, and the Paperbag Princess too. ;)

My favourite Anne story was actually Anne's House of Dreams. I think I should go re-read them now actually. Sigh, I love those books.

I couldn't believe they didn't have Emily of New Moon, Jo March, Meg Murray, Tiffany Aching, Mary Lennox, Fern from Charlotte's Web, Cimorene, or even Kat, Incorrigible from today!

“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”

Michele: So sorry to hear your mum is unwell. Where does she live? Sending best wishes that you can be nearer to her soon.

Rory: Cyrano de Bergerac is one of my favourites. A Very Long Engagement is also good, with Audrey Tautou as well. Joyeux Noël and Camille Claudel were good as well.
I love Amelie as well! :)
PS - Read Tolkein!!!!!!!

Canada has this bookstore chain called Indigo and they posted this link to the 25 coolest female characters in children's literature. I feel like they missed all but about 5. Who are your favourite heroines in children's literature?

Michele, To Say Nothing of the Dog is one of my all time favourite books ever. And I love Three Men in a Boat too. I was on vacation at the sea when I read Blackout and All Clear so nothing to do but read and relax, maybe that helped.

Rory: "Scott Lynch tosses around the F word like it's on sale at Walmart." BAHAHAHAHA!

QNPB, Sigh: A special collections librarian. Oh how wonderful that would be. I once read about a first edition P&P set going for auction at Sotheby's for $100,000 CAN and thought that seemed quite reasonable. My husband thought I was bonkers of course.
I often read chick lit that is recommended to me by my sister. I have enjoyed some of it - I liked Elegance, and Bridget Jones' Diary. I still have not been able to get through Dead Until Dark though. Going to keep trying - It's nice to chat books with people you love but who are not really readers. My husband is worse - total non-reader, only science journals. He recently read The Martian and then watched the movie and said the words "The book was better than the movie" for the first time in his life. It was the first fiction book he had read since high school a LONG time ago. It took him a month, then I read it in about 4 hours and really annoyed him. And yes, the book was better. :)