Couch 46: How's tricks?

The Giver.. I could read that book over and over and over again..

Why I live at the PO - I love that story sooooo much.

I like Florence knight too.

Ok couch.. I need to get to bed. I think I heard some where that lots of rest was important when you were sick Good night!

If you like Catcher in the Rye - did you read Franny and Zooey, 9 Stories, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction? (Jd Salinger)

Or if the Jungle - then Elmer Gantry? (Sinclair Lewis)
or if Fahrenheit 451 - then Brave New World? (Huxley)

Ooh! I'll start!

To Kill a Mockingbird
Great Gatsby
East of Eden
Lord of the Rings (if you have any interest at all in fantasy)
Harry Potter series (yes, I'm a HP nerd)
Gone With the Wind
Catcher in the Rye
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (my students
introduced me to this one)
Pillars of the Earth (love, love, love)
Jane Eyre
Of Mice and Men
The Red Tent
The Kite Runner
Water for Elephants
A Thousand Splendid Suns

Okay, that's more than 10. Not all "classics", but definitely my favorites.

I can't believe I forgot these:

All the King's Men -Robert Penn Warren.

To the Lighthouse (V. Woolf)

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. (Stein)

It took me a few readings of Catcher in the Rye for it to really grow on me, but now I really appreciate it. Haven't read his other works.

My sons LOVED Fahrenheit 451. Somehow I got through my entire educational and teacher career without ever reading it. I need to though apparently.

Read The Jungle in high school. Wasn't a big fan.

Books others love that didn't do much for me:

Huckleberry Finn
As I Lay Dying
Animal Farm
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Julius Caesar
Death of a Salesman
Wicked
Grapes of Wrath
Lord of the Flies

The Fur Person - May Sarton

Nightwood - Djuna Barnes

Now I am trying to decide which I am going to go reread right now.

I'm a rereader. Most of the books on my list I've read numerous times. I probably read Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter series (I know, light reading, but I work with heavy reading every day), and Pillars of the Earth once a year. The others every few years. My students can't believe I do that; so many of them have only read what they've been assigned in school (some not even that).

I read the books I teach every time I teach them, so I can almost cite Crucible, Frederick Douglass, Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye by heart. I used to do the same with Mockingbird, Antigone, Julius Caesar, Midsummer Night's Dream (my favorite Shakespeare), Of Mice and Men.

Currently, I'm plowing through Game of Thrones book series; I've decided he needs a good editor. Having the HBO series to watch is keeping me interested though.

Guess I shouldn't have slept all day.

I didn't sleep all day, but I'm not sleeping now either.

So Chris , how have you been?

yes i am i'm all about creepy movies lol

Oh Lola, I made myself go to bed shortly after that post and missed you.

I'm great actually. Working on about 3 hours of sleep this morning which seems to be the way of things for me lately. Hope you finally made it to sleep a bit too.

I wrote and cancelled this week's appointment early this morning. I am not yet unmad enough at me for walking merrily into the trap or the woman for doing what she agreed not to do. When this angry still, going would be pointless. I don't mind ranting at the woman, but walking into it, letting down my vigilance was my own damn doing. if I had been paying attention, I could have avoided it. Plus, I need to make up for the money and time wasted on getting caught in that ******** last week.

Stop... if you want to share... what did the woman do? did she bring her dog again?

omg stop the fur person is one of my all time fav's i loved it .i cant believe there is another person in the world who knows that book lol. both my cats are gentle cats .never a cat about town lol

i have got to deal with getting my cloths out that i am bringing to florida . do ya think i am avoiding it or something lol

OhOh I want to play.

I can't limit it to ten.

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (HST)
2. Grapes of Wrath(Steinbeck)
3. Man's Fate(Malraux)
4. As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
5.For Whom the Bell Tolls(Hemingway)
6.The Second Coming (Walker Percy)
7.Tijuana Straits (Kem Nunn)
8. The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
9.The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
10. Slaughtehouse- Five (Vonnegut)
11. Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
12 Don Quixote (Cervantes)
13. Invisible Man (Ellison)
14.Boys of Summer (Roger Kahn)
15. Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac)
16. To The Lighthouse (Woolf)
17. Going After Cacciato (O'Brien)
18. Go Down Moses(Faulkner)

Morning all, its time to mow the lawn again, damn growing grass! SD what happened, what did she do?

I need to cut my grass too. Or weeds, with the dogs all I have is mostly clover.

It does not matter what the woman did. It matters that I let her.

SD , it does matter what she did... What if her point was to help you. My lawnmower is choking to mow, my yard looks like a field.

“She would have been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

The road to hell is paved with good intentions? Does it matter if her point was to help if it failed? And if she knew it would fail before she did it? And if she acknowledged that fact as she did it? And that I gave her, through an unwise lapse in vigilance, the ability and ammunition and opportunity?

I do not understand this.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find allusion?

I came home from church and headed out to the yard myself. Fortunately, out next door neighbor runs a landscaping company, and he has his workers mow and edge our yard for us dirt cheap(I think he gets tired of seeing it overgrown.) The weeds have taken over, so I was out spraying weeds. Found two dead baby snakes!! Yuck, yuck, yuck!! I saw one in the garage a few days ago, a bit bigger than the ones I found today; it was alive. Yes, I screamed and freaked. I HATE SNAKES!!!! I'm not aware that we've ever had them in years past, so I'm not sure what the difference is, but this is not going to work.

Why is it always me who has the close encounters with the local wildlife in the garage? Last summer, I ran into a possum in the garage. Screamed that time too. Maybe I'll just avoid the garage.

Reminds me. My T is truly phobic of snakes. He's talked about it on several occasions over the years. He used to not even be able to look at pictures of snakes without severe reactions. He told me one time he was sitting at Starbucks and a girl walked in with a snake draped around her neck. His first instinct was to kill it. Seriously. I'm not quite that bad, but pretty close.