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I feel like a slacker here! I finished (or started): The Stand Rose Madder The Children of Hurin The Great and Secret Show Lady Chatterley's Lover (started, now halfway through) Next on my list are: Notes on a Scandal The Tommyknockers Middlemarch A Tale of Two Cities The...

Hello and welcome! Maybe post a review of the last book you read. I've gotten a lot of my ideas for books from reading other people's reviews. What types of books do you like the best?

The Silmarillion can be hard at the very beginning, but once you get into it it's really very good. I reviewed it and The Children of Hurin on my blog, Bookworm's Oasis, if you want to read it. Also, even though the first time I read The Lord of the Rings, it blew me away, I've enjoyed it more...

I was a later starter at school, so I only just finished my two-year degree from a community college this past month, and I'll be starting my junior year as an English major in August. In this time in between, I'm just working part-time in retail. Eventually, my boyfriend and I will be moving to...

I just picked up Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller today on my dinner break at work. It's made its way to the top of my TBR list!

You have quite a list here! First, I'll list the books I'm planning on reading: Animal Farm The Blind Assassin Lolita 1984 On the Road A Passage to India (started, never finished) Possession To the Lighthouse Now for the ones I have read...this may take awhile. Are You There God...

I don't know if this counts, but I love to read The Hobbit over and over again. I've also got The Velveteen Rabbit on my wish list. That was one of my favorite stories as a kid, and I want to have it again to read to my little nephew when I babysit (and when he's a bit older...he couldn't sit...

I saw The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien on there. I bought that when it first came out, and was actually pleased with it, even though the story it one that I've read before in different versions, in The Silmarillion and in Unfinished Tales. I was happy to see that someone thought to...

When your house starts to look like the home of a 90 year old crazy recluse. I have three full bookcases that are already spilling over, plue several piles of books on the floor. My boyfriend says our apartment looks like it belongs to some crazy old lady who never leaves her house. Why bother...

The bought The House of Gucci by Sara Gay Forden. It's about the history of the Gucci family, including the 1995 murder of Maurizio Gucci. I started it, but ended up being distracted by a Stephen King re-read: Rose Madder.

I like reading in bed, or on my "nap couch", as my boyfriend calls it. If I'm downstairs, sometimes I'll turn the TV on low for a little background noise. If I'm upstairs, hearing my boyfriend on his computer in the next room is enough for me.

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts. It's a work of non-fiction (the author was a journalist) that describes the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic in America and how the government ignored the crisis for so many years. When I read it, I was completely shocked at how the government "decided"...

I loved Unfinished Tales! I let my brother borrow it about 2 years ago, and I haven't gotten it back. It will be getting a reread when I do get it back! I also found The Silmarillion an easy read. I actually just reviewed it on my blog on Blogger (Bookworm's Oasis).

You should try The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture, which was published by Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521267897. My boyfriend is a history major, and this is the book that influenced him in his choice.

I have to disagree just a little bit. I think that Bilbo and Frodo go away to the Undying Lands to first heal their minds, but that they eventually died there. I like to think that when Sam Gamgee finally took a ship out West, he was reunited with Frodo. But of course the point is that we don't...

One thing to keep in mind when you read The Silmarillion and many of Tolkien's other works is that he was writing in a style similar to that of the old Anglo-Saxon epics, like Beowulf, and also like that of the old Norse epics. He wanted to invent a history that could pass for real history. When...

Yes, she was an extremely enlightened teacher, and she taught the only history class I've come away from feeling like I really learned something. My boyfriend is beginning his junior year as a history major this fall, and I want to get it for him as a gift. I don't think enough people consider...

I often read non-fiction over and over again. I've read Antonia Fraser's The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England about four times. I also want to re-read Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, which was my 11th grade history textbook, over again. I can't imagine reading...

There's a good-sized Half Price Books about 5 minutes away from my apartment that I love to use. But since I work at the mall (unfortunately) I also like to go to the Borders. I've also bought a lot from Amazon because they are often cheaper and I can get them quickly. There's also an outlet...

I know someone already said this one, but I think the scariest book I've ever read has to be The Stand by Stephen King. Just the fact that it's a plausible situation that leads to the end of the world...it actually kept me up at night, worrying that the government was manufacturing a killer flu...