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okay, this is my final/complete list for March The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Bad Boy - Olivia Goldsmith The Little Book of Neuroses; Ongoing Trials from My Queer Life - Michael Thomas Ford The Haunted Hotel - Wilkie Collins The Frozen...

She was an anthropologist. She traveled and collected folklore. She wrote a book of the collected folklore, she also wrote one about voodoo. In the book Speak So You Can Speak Again, it comes with a cd of Zora singing and retelling some of the tales she collected. She was an amazing...

The movie is a good adaptation. It's not perfect, but I really think they did a good job. I'm not sure how to explain it, but I think Zora was trying to show us the power of nature. Sort of like in The Color Purple where Shug talks about how all the trees dance and do everything to get us to...

You and I from the London Concept Version of the Musical Chess

I loved the book. I read it because Alice Walker was always mentioning it. I think the dialect that it's written in really gives you a feel for the characters. I find it amazing that writers of the time gave Hurston a hard time for using dialect in her book. I've read it twice. I...

I have more than 1 Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd Just about any Daphne Du Maurier I read. But my top 3 of hers (I read like 12) are Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Frenchman's Creek The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus - Margaret Atwood Kings Row - Henry Bellamann

Not a fan of him either, but at least he's got people to read. Even if it's a bad book, it's still a book.

I just finished The Frozen Deep, another Collins/Dickens collaboration. This one helped inspire A Tale of Two Cities. I think I'm going to have to read some Dickens when I work through more Wilkie.

that's pretty much it for me too.

Asia, New Zealand, everywhere :) I prefer Borders too, and not just because I work there :) Actually my favorite place to buy books is Half Price Books, and we've also got a local place called 1/4 Price Books that usually has some good finds.

yeah, if it's really bad. Atlas Shrugged got chunked against the wall pretty hard!

i lost interest in Lost because it just kept getting more ridiculous. I wanted at least a few answers not more nonsense every week. Desperate Housewives still has its moments, but I've seen maybe 3 episodes this season. Only think I still watch regularly is The OC.

just picked up a series of books called The American Presidency for the boyfriend. It has one volume for each president. It stops somewhere in the 70s though (don't remember exactly where) I picked up a copy of The Scarlet Letter Hester by Christopher Bigsby and a Dicken's omnibus type...

as I already mentioned in another post in this thread The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins and this past week I read Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Bad Boy - Olivia Goldsmith The Little Book of Neuroses; Ongoing Trials from My Queer Life - Michael Thomas Ford

I've been with my boyfriend a little over 3 years.

i work in a bookstore because i like just being surrounded by books all day.

I LOVED Dangerous Angels. I wasn't too crazy about Echo though, too many characters. Have yoy read Necklace of Kisses yet? She's got a new one coming out this summer/fall.

so far only The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. I've got a whole week ahead of me to do nothing, and I'm bringing 6 books with me though.

I got to see David Gray this week. It was a GREAT show!

Collins was good friends with Charles Dickens. I think their styles are similar. The story is written in sort of an epistolatory form. Each character has a narrative, so you get to hear about some of the events in the book from different point of views. Each narrative reveals a secret of a...