tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942766836244824666.post6112679138808606968..comments2008-12-29T13:10:07.215-08:00Comments on Siegel's Droppings: Memes and readingj-seagalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03434457186171722761noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942766836244824666.post-14778859302009799972008-09-20T12:42:00.000-07:002008-09-20T12:42:00.000-07:00Thanks for the list. I've read 28.3 -- the .3 ...Thanks for the list. I've read 28.3 -- the .3 is Inferno, but not the rest. I read Inferno as a follow-up to a book by Gloria Naylor, whose title escapes me at the moment. <BR/><BR/>I read Middlemarch when I was part of a reading group, years ago. We chose a "long classic" because there was going to be a longer-than-usual hiatus between meetings. I was prepared to be bored, but I loved it. I then read Mill on the Floss, and loved that. So the, I decided to reread Silas Marner because I had thought it unutterably sappy in high school --and boy, had I been right. Just why that was chosen is beyond me, apart from the fact it's short. Hope it's still not used. <BR/><BR/>I reread Tale of Two Cities recently as my hairdresser's son was reading it in high school -- I thought the opening was very cinematic, but the father/daughter love was too sentimental, without quite tipping over into sappy -- her son hated the whole book. <BR/><BR/>Mrs. Dalloway was the first Virginia Woolf novel I read. It was recommended by a friend who said it was more accessible than some of her other novels. I liked it a lot, plus her collection of short stories, Mrs. Dalloway's Party. Try Mrs. Dalloway. <BR/><BR/>Believe it or not, I read War and Peace after reading the first really long Harry Potter novel. I thought, well, if kids can read a book this long, I can read W&P. I did skip the appendices with Tolstoy's thoughts/philosophies. There's a book out on the graphic depiction of statistics that usually has as its example in ads and, for some editions, on the cover, a map with a thick/very thin line showing the size of Napoleon's army going to and then retreating from Moscow. Very revealing. <BR/><BR/>Hope your other readers, the non-posting ones (surely they are out there?) enjoy the list as much as I did.Marianaria Sra. bibliotecariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07468566399760178706noreply@blogger.com