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.

I saw that in a bookstore the other day, Jilli!

I admit, it was Dame Darcy's art that sold me on it. She's so deliciously loopy and over-the-top Gothic Victorian.