What book would you like to read in September 2011?

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The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

4 (66.7%)

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

2 (33.3%)

What book would you like to read in September 2011?

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The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
1 (14.3%)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
2 (28.6%)
Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
1 (14.3%)
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
3 (42.9%)

Have you read/are you reading/do you plan to read Crime and Punishment?

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Read it
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Reading it
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Plan to read it
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Don't plan to read it
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Would you like to extend Crime and Punishment through August 2011?

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Yes

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No

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What book would you like to read in April 2011?

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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

5 (55.6%)

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

1 (11.1%)

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

3 (33.3%)

( Cut because I get a bit wordy )

I'll stop babbling here, since I'm sure I've said only the most commonplace ideas about this play. I still wanted to write my thoughts down before I read some critics.
 

While browsing the reading list, I saw this com read A Christmas Carol by Dickens in 2006. I'd never read it, and I decided to try it.

I've read the first two staves so far, Marley's Ghost and The First of the Three Spirits, and I'm really enjoying this book. I felt really sympathetic toward Scrooge, especially when the Spirit showed the scene with his fiancée, and I've enjoyed all the descriptions (which I usually skip while reading, but Dickens has a way to describe without being boring).

And I can't resist quoting Scrooge's nephew, during one of the first scenes in the novella:
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew. “Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”

I hope you all enjoy your various Christmas books.