Anya ,'Potential'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
magazine holder are for comics
essays, mixed author shortstories, children's books and humor are in the guest bedroom.
Tech and reference are in the office.
the only thing that is wrong like a wrong thing is the LPs in the office. but they need a spot in LRoom.
TBR books 150- 180 piled haphazardly on my shelves next to the bed
Then you need all new stuff!
Heh. No, I think I've hit my stride with the old dark wood. Love. This is going to be my next book support purchase, I think.
magazine holder are for comics
Way too many comics for that.
My books are reasonably haphazard, and not just because I'm short a bookshelf. Most of the fiction goes in the living room, mixed in with the non-fiction (which predominates by far), stored by author and series. The non-fiction is loosely thematically arranged--weapons here, martial arts there, computer books here. But I have books of all those sorts in the bedroom too.
Ooh, thanks for the link ita, because I'm looking for something like this [link] that was pictured on the same page.
Guess what I've never read, but am going to start reading tomorrow on the bus ride home?
Jane Eyre
Now, I *hated* Wuthering Heights. But I'm going to be reading Jane Eyre with an entirely different mindset: I know it's the book where almost all the Gothic novel clichés come from, and I'm probably going to spend the entire time thinking of it as high parody/black comedy.
The real reason I finally decided to read it, though? Because I got a copy of the version illustrated by Dame Darcy.
Jilli, I have to know what you think of Jane Eyre when you're done. I personally love it. I think it is much different from Wuthering Heights, so I hope hating the latter doesn't ruin your enjoyment of the former.
I saw that in a bookstore the other day, Jilli!
I also think it's very, very different from Wuthering Heights. Although I think I like Wuthering Heights better. So that might mean you love Jane Eyre.
I hated WH but adored Jane Eyre when I was a young teen. Except for what I called the boring part. So I'd just always skip that part.
hated Wuthering heights but while I don't love Jane Eyre - it is a very different and much better book
I just read a book called Report Card A kid's book that talks about the evils of standerized testing. odd.
Oh, I love Jane Eyre (completely unable to type that as anything but Jayne the first time), and I hate Wuthering Heights. Jane is a great character, and so much more likeable than anyone in WH.
Jilli, I have to know what you think of Jane Eyre when you're done. I personally love it. I think it is much different from Wuthering Heights, so I hope hating the latter doesn't ruin your enjoyment of the former.
I may eventually re-read Wuthering Heights to give it another try. While I say I've read it, I've actually skimmed it. My main problem with it is that it gave me the overwhelming urge to slap both Cathy and Heathcliff.
I suspect that if I go back and re-read Wuthering Heights with the mindset that it's also a comedy/parody of Gothic novel conventions, I'd probably enjoy it a lot more.