The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde... need I say more? Even if you've read it, read again! Every time I pick up this book, his beauty seeps through the pages and into the air around me. He wields his words with an effortless power that makes me melt, and the story is impossible to forget. (In a lemon-sugar kind of way.)
I Have A Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes - Jaclyn Moriarty. Don't know if you know her; this is the first adult novel she's written, and I am totally totally enamoured with this book. It's funny and clever - has the most amazingly well-thought-out structure - and it's romantic and bittersweet and just gorgeous. I think you'd like it :)
She wrote an adult novel? Awesome. I *loved* Feeling Sorry for Celia... I think I actually lent my school's copy to you because I wanted you to share my joy so much. I want to read the sequel... Must...read... picture of dorian gray... I keep remembering I need to and then not doing it.
She did! And, as I said, it's wonderful. Her creativity, the intricacies of her plots... I am so enamoured with her, and her writing, and the fact that she married a Canadian. I started doing martial arts because of the awesome-tastic twelve-year-old girl in that book (whose nickname is Listen. Is that not the coolest?)
Feeling Sorry for Celia was awesome, too. The greatest young adult fiction ever belongs to Jaclyn Moriarty.
And oh yes, you must read Dorian Gray. You're denying yourself the purest form of literary joy and a deeper understanding of James Blunt! ;)
can you believe it? i was skimming through cameron s. redfern's landscape with animals in the middle of the pitt st borders store! and the book is so explicitely erotic (not to mention, i stood for a good five minutes skimming the first chapter of anais nin's delta of venus. i felt so naughty afterwards and guilty that i was such in a public place reading god, erotica!)
thank you! i will keep your advice about v.woolf in mind. =)
Ew, don't reah the catcher in the rye, that's the WORST book I was ever forced to pick up. If I didn't love words so much, it'd have ruined reading for me forever. If you haven't read it, hit North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell - I read it for extension english last year and twas great. I'd also encourage you to keep reading kids/teen books, because some are written very well and quality YA fiction can complement your other reading. The His Dark Materials trilogy (first book is Northern Lights) by Phillip Pullman is a good one if you don't mind fantsay/sci fi. The last in the Series of Unfortunate Events is just out and we sold a hundred copies in two days so maybe take a gander at that too. Also Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom is good... I plan to read his first book, Tuesdays with Morrie, soon. Attack the library, my friend! And if you need to make good use of my staff discount, let me know.
are you sure about catcher in the rye? it looks awfully good. i read the first page and it sounded good, it also like dorian gray has a good rapport. it sounds awful now. damn.
north and south,....i've heard it before. is it a movie? + YA fiction can be the best, i don't think i'll ever grow out of it.
have you read the whole series of series of unfortunate events?
It's one of those "you either love or hate" books. Except there is NO plot whatsoever and it's not written very well. Just some adolescent boy rambling for a few hundred pages. So I hated it.
North and South was made into a BBC TV series, shown on ABC last year. Haven't read any of the series of unfortunate events! But it's selling like crazy so I do plan to.
I work at Borders, at mac centre.
And because I couldn't be bothered to make it a second comment, the sequel to Feeling Sorry for Celia is called Finding Cassie Crazy and it looks good... I plan to borrow it soon.
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wouldn't that be expected?
beach outing this holidays? yes, that'd be grand.
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Oscar Wilde... need I say more? Even if you've read it, read again! Every time I pick up this book, his beauty seeps through the pages and into the air around me. He wields his words with an effortless power that makes me melt, and the story is impossible to forget. (In a lemon-sugar kind of way.)
I Have A Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes - Jaclyn Moriarty.
Don't know if you know her; this is the first adult novel she's written, and I am totally totally enamoured with this book. It's funny and clever - has the most amazingly well-thought-out structure - and it's romantic and bittersweet and just gorgeous. I think you'd like it :)
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Must...read... picture of dorian gray... I keep remembering I need to and then not doing it.
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Feeling Sorry for Celia was awesome, too. The greatest young adult fiction ever belongs to Jaclyn Moriarty.
And oh yes, you must read Dorian Gray. You're denying yourself the purest form of literary joy and a deeper understanding of James Blunt! ;)
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(virginia woold can be quite difficult, 'to the lighthouse' was one of the few i could actually understand).
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i was skimming through cameron s. redfern's landscape with animals in the middle of the pitt st borders store!
and the book is so explicitely erotic (not to mention, i stood for a good five minutes skimming the first chapter of anais nin's delta of venus. i felt so naughty afterwards and guilty that i was such in a public place reading god, erotica!)
thank you! i will keep your advice about v.woolf in mind.
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I agree with your friend above, The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favourite books!
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If you haven't read it, hit North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell - I read it for extension english last year and twas great. I'd also encourage you to keep reading kids/teen books, because some are written very well and quality YA fiction can complement your other reading. The His Dark Materials trilogy (first book is Northern Lights) by Phillip Pullman is a good one if you don't mind fantsay/sci fi. The last in the Series of Unfortunate Events is just out and we sold a hundred copies in two days so maybe take a gander at that too.
Also Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom is good... I plan to read his first book, Tuesdays with Morrie, soon.
Attack the library, my friend! And if you need to make good use of my staff discount, let me know.
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north and south,....i've heard it before. is it a movie?
+ YA fiction can be the best, i don't think i'll ever grow out of it.
have you read the whole series of series of unfortunate events?
where do you work? a bookstore? oh lucky you!
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North and South was made into a BBC TV series, shown on ABC last year. Haven't read any of the series of unfortunate events! But it's selling like crazy so I do plan to.
I work at Borders, at mac centre.
And because I couldn't be bothered to make it a second comment, the sequel to Feeling Sorry for Celia is called Finding Cassie Crazy and it looks good... I plan to borrow it soon.
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