so...I just realized that in 24 hours from Tuesday night to Wednesday night, no one really checks my blog besides me and SJ. so I have decided to give y'all until Saturday night. If you have any ideas (or just don't want me to post about my sister), you must sumbit them before 10 pm on Saturday, March 27th.
Same as Adrian said. My google reader shows your blog at least once a day. I just decided that since *I* never post, I was hardly the one to give ideas.
But since you're asking. . . I vote you read a really great book and then post a critical review :-). You should read "The Swiss Family Robinson" if you haven't already :-). That is a great book, much better (and different) than the movie.
Thanks, guys...yeah, I don't know how google reader registers it or whatever, I just put it up to encourage people to comment, and you did that just fine. Thanks for the feedback! we're going to an authentic Scottish wedding tomorrow, and I'll take pics and (hopefully) post them...and Sufie, I don't know what to read right now. I'm reading The Lord of the Rings for the third time in the last year because I am all out of ideas. Any suggestions?
P.S. I have read Swiss Family Robinson before. :)
I would *love* to go to a Scottish wedding. That'll be cool, I bet. Is this the family from your church whose daughter was courted long-distance by a guy from Scotland? I talked with the Mom in November.
Hmm. Suggestions. Have you read any of George MacDonald's books? He has lots of good ones, speaking of Scotland ;-). A good starter duo would be The Fisherman's Lady and The Marquis' Secret. I'm sure your library would have them.
Have you read the Silmarillion? If you haven't, and you want to, take my advice: have the map out in front of you the whole time. Every time Tolkein mentions a place, look it up on the map. That'll knock out half the names for you. There are also some helpful appendices in the back for geneologies.
Some other fantastic reads are The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Miserables, and A Tale of Two Cities. Daniel Deronda and Wives and Daughters are quite interesting, as is Far from the Madding Crowd. Have you read any Jane Austen? I highly recommend all her novels, but especially Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. The latter, indeed, is a unique novel in that the heroine is the heroine precisely because she is a static character, while the rest of her world changes around her.
I enjoyed some of the more ancient works as well, like Iliad and Odyssey, Aenied, Divine Comedy, and Paradise Lost. Ah, here's a really fun one: Beowulf.
Hope some of these are helpful reading suggestions. But then, I'm perfectly capable of inflicting book suggestions on anyone at the drop of a hat. ;-)]
