All the stuff I’ve been reading is history. I stocked up just before they closed the library but I’ve finished all those. Got a Barnes and Noble gift card for Father’s Day. I’ll have to cash it in for some lighter reading.

Jerome K Jerome
------Three Men in a Boat

Mary Roberts Rinehart
------ the Tish stories (there are several collections)


Eta---James Thurber The Thurber Carnival *(short essays, stories)
-----------------The Macbeth Murder Mystery, The Day the Dam Broke, The Night the Bed Fell


*free online at fadedpage.com

Discovered in house we rented in Nfld in 70s. Owners had one or two.* Can't remember which ones. Found them really funny. Ones I read later not so much.


*I discovered Three Men in a Boat there too.

IRCC, Peter Lovesy wrote a mystery using that book as part of the plot. I think that mystery was one of his the BBC filmed

George Orwell
----- 1984
----- Animal Farm

Aldous Huxley
----- Brave New World

Stephen King
----- The Stand

It’s the story of his journey across the Pacific Ocean on a raft. It was a great adventure and the book is great escapism.

I am also reading Boys in the Trees, a memoir by Carly Simon. What a life!

My go to author when I need a lift. One of the funniest and wittiest writers ever!

It's priceless

Lots of Wodehouse has been put on gutenberg.org

I have a whole shelf of his books.

There have been times, when reading a Wodehouse story, that I have been literally rolling on the floor, laughing until my face turns red, holding my sides because they're hurting from the torrent of silent laughter.

Rose in Bloom it is equally lovely.

In 80s and 90s I was rereading Pride and Prejudice almost every other year. And BTW I absolurtely hated Firth as Darcy---way too brooding and with pent-up emotions. Darcy is totally cool, restrained, and remote. An observer, not a participant. That's why his attraction so totally disturbs him. Such deepmfeelings are foreign to him. His veeling for his sister are completely protective in nature.

I also reread Sense and Sensibility many times

Then that book! Couldn't believe it!

Do you like regencies? Try Georgette Heyer. She wrote some good contemporary (30s,40s mysteries too) Most if not all are free online

took me years to get past the first chapter

Bleak House, Little Dorrit really stuck with me. Had to read Tale of Two Cities in HS. Never again. Read David Copperfield on my own in HS. Great book, memorable scenes and characters, but can't reread -- remember it as being too sad. Read Old Curiousity Shop b/c often saw it positively mentioned. Hated it, never again.

Dickens' scenes are so compelling!

Have read Barchester Towers. It moves so slowly I found it quite restful

J v J goes on forever 'people are born into and then die out of it'. When it finally ends, the judge announces that there is no money in the account---it all went to lawyers' fees!!

That's why he was such a keen observer of people. It's probably also why he was nuts. At least, after trying to get something out of Great Expectations when it was assigned in tenth grade, I thought he was nuts, because I got nothing out of it.
I was a court reporter for twenty years in the big city. Drove me completely nuts. I was burned out before I was 35 and hated humanity. Fortunately I am long retired from that three ring circus/madhouse/rotating soap opera known as the courts. Most of it is incredibly boring, like civil district court, where they fight over money and contracts. That's better than some of the craziness in criminal and family courts.

Don't settle for the film version of this extraordinary novel. Brilliant in every respect.

She had a houseful of kids, and wrote a delightful and laugh out loud collection of stories about her family.

Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons. Maybe I need to dive in to those. It has been probably 15 years since I read them.

My mother had a collected works book, and when I would go to visit her I would read those two every time I visited.

Another author for great laughter: Patrick Dennis! He wrote "Auntie Mame" "Around the World With AUntie Mame" and my favorite of all
"The Joyous Season" (I wish someone would option that and make a film; it would be a hit)

It's hilarious.