[bksvol-discuss] Happy Birthday
- From: "Susan" <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:23:44 -0600
Have a wonderful birthday and a great year too Shelley!
Susan
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Smile, thank you, smile.
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he
does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009)
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> Have a Happy Birthday, Shelley!!
>
> Sue S.
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> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 8:20 PM
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> O.k. so I have read 18 of them and attempted to read a few others.
>
> Oliver Twist is my favorite Charles Dickens.
>
> Grapes of Wrath, Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights, and
> Tale of Two Cities were all required. Hamlet was also required. I loved
> Little Women and Ann of Green Gables, and Love Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and
> have all of Sherlock Holmes's books. Am reading the Lovely Bone, right
> now,
> via digital talking book. Loved Harry Potter, and Tolkien's Books and
> didn't mind some of the Chronicles of Narnia, did not like Pride and
> Prejudice, I guess I am just not that accomplished, smile. Loved Davinci
> Code, and Orwell's books, read both of them. Have read the other Dickens.
> Bleak House and David Copperfield both in highschool, plus Dracula, and
> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Secret Garden was a favorite of my
> friends and mine when we were younger. You know one I don't see on there
> and am disappointed is Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Oh, and read Moby
> Dick
> after watching the movie, actually fairly close to form, smile, though
> definitely not going off on the topic of whaling. And I did read half of
> Les Miserables, got to the part about Waterloo and kind of stopped had to
> return the tapes. But is a good, book, and an awesome musical. And of
> course Alice in Wonderland, smile.
> So perhaps more than smile 18.
>
> And I am only as of tomorrow 29. Smile.
>
> Some of these I do recognize though.
>
> A very intriguing list.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
> and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
>
> The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and
> he
> does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer
> (1932-2009)
>
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> From: "Mike" <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 8:43 PM
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>> Now, I'll have to actually count...I stopped after 20 (my occasional
>> competitive streak comes out).
>>
>> I'm impressed by how eclectic and recent some items on this list are
>> (Rowlings, Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Khaled Hosseini, Dan Brown, Magaret
>> Atwood, Frank Herbert, Salman Rushde, Iain Banks, Roald Dahl and many
>> more
>> I wouldn't expect). I didn't read a single Harry Potter because we had a
>> radio show by a woman who read children's books (and did voices and all)
>> who did the first four books. The one I was assigned in high school that
>> I
>> never got through was Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
>>
>> Does the "no plays on bookshare" extend to public domain like
>> Shakespeare?
>> And is there really a single volume called the Complete Works of
>> Shakespeare? That would make reading War and Peace child's play by
>> comparison.
>>
>> Misha
>>
>> On 11/20/2010 4:06 PM, Judy s. wrote:
>>> Nobody beat me up, but to my shock I've read 69 of them...
>>>
>>> That either says that I'm way older than most of you and have had more
>>> time to read, or that my incredibly anal high school and college English
>>> teachers were right on which books we had to read for their classes.
>>> grin.
>>>
>>> Judy s.
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