Melissa (ladybug)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2011)

Melissa (ladybug)’s comments from the Classics for Beginners group.

Modern Classics I want to read. Hopefully, if anyone can recommend them, I can get some more modern classics to list here.


01. J.R.R. Tolkien
-- The Hobbit
-- The Fellowship of the Ring
-- The Two Towers
-- The Return of the King

02. C.S. Lewis
-- The Magician's Nephew (Jan 13, 2022)
-- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
-- Prince Caspian
-- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
-- The Horse and His Boy
-- The Silver Chair
-- The Last Battle

03. Alice Walker
-- The Color Purple
-- Meridian

04. Toni Morrison
-- Beloved
-- Jazz
-- Paradise
-- The Bluest Eye
-- Song of Solomon
-- Sula
-- Home
-- Tar Baby

Have read The Tell-Tale Heart and Rip Van Winkle. Really enjoyed both short stories although they were as different from each other as they could be. I plan to next read The Gold Bug

I also agree with getting rid of the tri-monthly reads. I personally don't read the messages so I vote for less broadcast messages. I love the challenges as they help me track my classics. :)

Have listened to Macbeth on audio book. :) It was very good as it had sound effects and different narrators. Was a fun "read". :)

Have finished Black Beauty again. It was a re-read from my childhood. I loved it then and it seemed even better this time. This time I listened to it on audio book and could see the book in my mind even better than ever.

Joy wrote: "Is anyone using a published list to determine your "want to reads"?"

LOL I am using the ultimate reading list. ;)

http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/199...

Have updated some of the read list. :)

I had written the list up using WordPad then cut and pasted the list and then I used the < pre > html tags. :D This tag always changes the font to the new one. :D

Have updated my list. :p

Les Mis that I borrowed was abridged. Ended up buying the unabridged version, and I finished and loved it. I am still reading these classics, but havent updated here yet. :)

I also like the Waterloo part. :D

@Kyle, maybe that is why Hugo started out showing us the Bishop so thoroughly. This was an extremely different Jean Valjean than when he started. :D He started out an hardened criminal (because of the injustices) and became a saint in a way. Maybe?

Another of my favorites is the Jabberwocky. :D

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Who can forget the nonsense words but fun twists and turns? :D

I, Curmudgeon wrote: "That one's great. My favorite Poe Poem is "Annabell Lee" but, it's posted somewhere.

There is also this one.

Spirits Of The Dead
by Edgar Allan Poe

Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark..."

;) My favorite also is "Annabell Lee"

Carrie wrote: "I so wanted us to go metric but for some reason we love to hang onto our crazy measurement system! Oh well, maybe we will try again when I have grandchildren. :)"

They tried to teach us Metric system in school. They still do. I am able to understand our system, but not Metric and I really have a hard time converting between systems. O_o. Metric system was hard and I never was able to understand it. It just doesn't make any sense. At least my thinking.

Nicolle wrote: "Finished The Pilgrims Progress."

What did you think of it?

Looks like you are really getting into the classics. :D

March 8th

I borrowed the book Les Miserable from a friend. I don't know if it is the unabridged book though. O_o? Oh well, I will read it anyway. :D

Thank you :D I really wanted to have an eclectic list. :D I think I succeeded.