Travlin Oma, my "course instructor" as it were, and a most well-read woman, shared the following list of the kinds of books one might discover in a great bookstore. Very clever. You can read her full experience here.
- Books You Needn't Read,
- Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading,
- Books You'd Read If You Had More Time. You bypass them, and move into the
- Books You Mean To Read,
- Books You'll Read When They Come Out In Paperback section, and bump into the
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You've Read Them,
- Books You Want To Own So They'll Be Handy Just In Case and
- Books You Ought To Get Now So You Can Read Them Next Summer. Suddenly you see
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time To Reread and
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read And Now It's Time To Really Read Them.
Writing Assignment: ~Choose a type of book from the list above, and make your own list of five titles that fit the category.
I'll go with number 10, which may or may not overlap somewhat with numbers 4 and 6. I like confessionals.
* The Princess Bride
* Les Miserables
* Jane Eyre (shameful, I know)
* Lord of the Rings
* The Hobbit
4 comments:
read The Hobbit before Lord of the Rings, not only because it's the true order of the stories, but because it's a pretty easy book to read, though introduces you to Tolkien's writing style, which is a bit more difficult to follow in the rings series. And I'll admit, I only read the four books because I like to read the book before seeing the movie. I ended up reading half of the first book and getting so lost, that I saw the movie and reread the book and loved it and understood it. So this is one trilogy where I say see the movies, then read for more of the story.
Les Miserables has sat on my bookshelf so long I'm hoping the contents will seep into my brain by osmosis. I just can't do it!
Jane Eyre is a favorite of mine!
You will so love The Princess Bride. I have it if you want to borrow it. It's so much better than the movie (as these things usually go)....except in the case of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, where the movie was so true to the books that the feelings I had when I read the books were perfectly captured in the movie.
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