Subject: VBW's Personal Lounge
Posted by: VBookWorm
Date: Feb 26 23
It's VBookWorm! My username says it all! In this blog, I will talk mostly about the books I have been reading, but will also talk about films, my cats, and Adrien Brody. Feel free to comment!
Posted by: VBookWorm
Date: Feb 26 23
It's VBookWorm! My username says it all! In this blog, I will talk mostly about the books I have been reading, but will also talk about films, my cats, and Adrien Brody. Feel free to comment!
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Reply #41. May 07 23, 1:28 PM |
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Reply #42. May 07 23, 2:05 PM |
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Agree, Madame Bovary is great! Another favorite of mine. Great Expectations, Bleak House and A Christmas Carol are probably my favorite works by Dickens. You're probably catching on to the fact that most of my very favorites are by French authors. Don't know why that is, but that seems to be the case with me. I like Maupassant's Bel Ami, also his Pierre and Jean is pretty good. Dumas fils' Camille is another classic which was turned into several movies. I also like George Sand. I don't consider hers in the same class as some of the others, but they're always fun reads. Reply #43. May 07 23, 2:57 PM |
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Reply #44. May 07 23, 3:18 PM |
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I liked The Three Musketeers although not nearly as well as I liked The Count of Monte Cristo. There's a couple of sequels to The Three Musketeers. I read Twenty Years After. Can't think of the other one offhand. I might be confused and there is only the one. Reply #45. May 07 23, 3:42 PM |
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Reply #48. May 08 23, 4:11 PM |
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Reply #32. May 07 23, 9:46 AM Reading every single book by Dickens isn't out of reach, by any means. You should be warned, though, even people who love Dickens devotedly usually skip "Martin Chuzzlewit" and "Barnaby Rudge". My favorite English professor in college, who was a Dickens fanatic, told me not to bother with them. So I figure, if Prof. Clement said so, it's probably safe to give them a miss. Reply #49. May 09 23, 2:09 PM |
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I also enjoyed "The Count of Monte Cristo ". Haven't read any Tolstoy, but I did enjoy Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot". Mostly though I like British lit. First read the Brontes at your age. Also a Dickens fan. I'm currently reading "The Water Babies" by Charles Kingsley. It's supposed to be a children's book, but there are an awful lot of long, boring preachy bits. The story itself is quite interesting, so if you can get an abridged version, I'd recommend it. Or you could just skip all the boring bits. Since my eyesight is bad enough to make reading print out of the question while at the same time I don't read braille all that well, I rely on audiobooks. And it's hard to skip bits with an audiobook, especially since you don't know in advance when they're going to end. /shrug/ Anyway... Reply #50. May 09 23, 2:25 PM |
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Val, you asked about making hearts. You use something called a character code. That has three parts: It always starts with an ampersand (and sign) &. Then there's a number, like this, #123. And it ends with a semicolon ;. So, to make the kind of heart I usually use, a filled (black) heart you would type: & #9829 ;only without the spaces. To make an outline (white) heart type & #9825 ; without the spaces. Reply #51. May 10 23, 3:02 PM |
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Reply #52. May 10 23, 3:07 PM |
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Reply #53. May 10 23, 3:07 PM |
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You're welcome. 💙 Reply #54. May 10 23, 6:57 PM |
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Reply #55. May 10 23, 9:55 PM |
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Here are some more hearts for you to add to your repertoire: & #128153 ; = 💙 & #128154 ; = 💚 & #128155 ; = 💛 & #128156 ; = 💜 & #129505 ; = 🧡 & #128152 ; = 💘 & #128148 ; = 💔 & #128571 ; = ...? (mystery code) Reply #56. May 11 23, 1:05 PM |
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