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christianreaderHi there! I'm Sara and I'm 20. I'm the third of three sisters and aunt to two and a half - whoops, no, he's a whole now! Family legend has it that I learned to read at age 3 and haven't stopped since. The public library is one of my favorite places in the whole world, I'm a book cover snob (aged and beautiful or new and chic - no faded 80's plastic, please!!) and dream of one day having a room filled with wall-to-wall bookcases except for one little spot for tea by the sunny window. I'm crazy about crafts of any kind and am taking a distance course from The English Gardening School. Most of my books tend to be non-fiction (craft and gardening books!), but the ratio is changing to about half and half.
Favorite authors include Gene Stratton Porter, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Austen (of course), Jean Henri Fabre, Lousia May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Mark Twain, etc, etc.... My favorite genre is probably adventure in the Jules Verne/H. Rider Haggard style. Bring on the Victorian hot air balloons! Least favorite: fantasy. Not sure why.... Also, there is a resounding lack of good detective fiction in my life that I keep meaning to mend.
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Favorite authors include Gene Stratton Porter, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Austen (of course), Jean Henri Fabre, Lousia May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Mark Twain, etc, etc.... My favorite genre is probably adventure in the Jules Verne/H. Rider Haggard style. Bring on the Victorian hot air balloons! Least favorite: fantasy. Not sure why.... Also, there is a resounding lack of good detective fiction in my life that I keep meaning to mend.
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Date: 2008-12-29 05:11 pm (UTC)What's unusual about that? Doesn't everbody? Heh. :-)
.... Also, there is a resounding lack of good detective fiction in my life that I keep meaning to mend.
Well, like I said before, I have a suggestion (http://www.strandmag.com/fatherbrown.htm) I could make... :-)
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Date: 2008-12-30 05:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-30 06:59 pm (UTC)BTW, do you mind if I add you to my friend list?
(If not, I completely understand.)
God bless!
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Date: 2008-12-31 02:28 pm (UTC)Wishing you a blessed new year!
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Date: 2008-12-31 02:37 pm (UTC)God bless!
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Date: 2008-12-30 02:59 am (UTC)Bring on the Victorian hot air balloons!
Well, not quite what you're looking for perhaps, but close (quite literally! Heh)....
Quoted in an article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123032986340736063.html) posted just today on the Wall Street Journal's website (emphasis mine):
...The most famous single work among Chesterton's 90-plus volumes of fiction, stories, poems, plays and essays is "The Man Who Was Thursday," also published in 1908 and currently in print in no less than seven editions. Chesterton jokingly dismissed it as "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Perhaps, but it is also one of the most intriguing and enduring mystery-adventure stories ever written, a phantasmagorical spy story replete with secret identities, sword fights, and more chases than a James Bond movie. (My favorites involve elephants and hot-air balloons.)
Set in a surrealistic London of shadowy, labyrinthine streets, the plot is populated by poets posing as undercover policemen and policemen pretending to be anarchists. This may sound slapstick, but "The Man Who Was Thursday" presages the dark clouds gathering over Europe before World War I.
An air of impending dread pervades the novel; the term "anarchist," after all, stirred the fear 100 years ago that "terrorist" does today.
Though largely ignored when it was first published, "Thursday" attracted, in time, an enormous cult following, including George Orwell (who was also impressed by Chesterton's first political fable, "The Napoleon of Notting Hill," a work set in the year 1984), Argentinean shortstory writer Jorge Luis Borges, and Michael Collins. Yes, that Michael Collins. At the 1921 peace negotiations between Ireland and Britain, Collins told a British official that he had learned much from "Thursday," particularly the lesson that "if you don't seem to be hiding, nobody hunts you out."
Surely no other writer in any century can claim a following that includes Irish rebels, Latin American fabulists and Christian apologists...
BTW, believe it or not, I do read other authors. Honest. :-)
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Date: 2008-12-30 05:22 pm (UTC)