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LempikirjailijatLouisa May Alcott, Bill Amend, Jane Austen, Bill Bryson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, John D. Fitzgerald, Philippa Gregory, C. S. Lewis, Christopher Moore, J.K. Rowling, Markus Zusak (Yhteiset suosikit)

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I am proud to anounce that I received runner-up in the Groundhog Day Bookpile Contest! Thank you, thank you. *takes a bow*

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Other books read and comments can be found on my 50 Book Challenge Thread.

Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett (reread)
Urban Dog, Will Cohu
Crashing Through, Robert Kurson
Flush, Carl Hiaasen
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew, Daniel Pool

Currently Reading:

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling (reread)
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (reread)

Youth Books I'm Thinking About Reading:

The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket
So B. It, Sarah Weeks
Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, Eoin Colfer
Belles on Their Toes, Frank B. Gilbreth
Here, There Be Dragons, James Owen
The Host, Stephenie Meyer, May 6, 2008
Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer, Aug 2, 2008
Brisingr, Christopher Paolini, Sep 20, 2008
Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke, Oct 1, 2008

Other Books I'm Thinking About Reading:

The Boleyn Inheritance, Philippa Gregory
Lord John and the Private Matter, Diana Gabaldon
Extremely Loud and Suddenly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
Middlesex, Jefferey Eugenides
Bloodsucking Fiends, Christopher Moore
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
Wives and daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell
The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
Confessions of a Jane Austen addict, Laurie Viera Rigler
Austenland, Shannon Hale
A visit to Highbury, Joan Austen-Leigh
How many miles to Babylon?, Jennifer Johnston
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

I welcome your comments if you think I should read any of these before the others. -Thanks!

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Those scottie puppys were great weren't they? That poor airedale was just trying to lie down and every time he got set on by six fighting/biting little scotties. And I thought it was hard work just coping with one pup at the biting stage.

Scottie is really back to her old self and she's been letting the whole street know that she is out and about. Lots of barking and grumbling and patrols of the perimeter fencing. Her kingdon is small but very well guarded. I have the same problem when we play fetch or pulling games. She will bring something back but hasn't got the hang of letting go to have it thrown again.

Have you considered lots of identical pairs of socks as a solution to when Gregor takes a shine to one? You can mix and match the others then.

It was fun finding the link. I just put Scottie Dogs into YouTube and lots of them appeared.

Lähettänyt: Jodyreadseverything 9:31 pm (EST) May 9, 2008

If this link works here then good but if it doesn't then go to LTer's with dogs thread I want that dog, because you really will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ThlJOj6zk

Hope you and Gregor are okay, Scottie has spent the whole day in the garden chasing anything that happened to be about, so birds, butterflies, squirrels etc have all been put in thier places by her.

Did you get your socks back yet?

Lähettänyt: Jodyreadseverything 7:23 pm (EST) May 9, 2008

*waves to compski* i'm back, i'm back! but now i'm scared to go check out the posts i've missed... it's going to take, like forever :-(

Lähettänyt: MrAndrew 9:58 am (EST) Apr 25, 2008

The cute factor certainly lets them get away with a lot doesn't it.

Not everything though. We had a leaflet delivery yesterday and the man posting them heard scottie barking but didn't realise I was on the stairs and could see him. He started waving the leaflet about to tease her with his hand inside the letterbox and she jumped up to grab the leaflet but she also caught his glove and pulled it off his hand. Luckily she didn't bite him, just caught his glove.

I think that will teach him not to tease a scottie but she still had to go to her basket to think about what she did. And I had to go upstairs so she didn't know I was laughing.

Good luck finding the sock.

Lähettänyt: Jodyreadseverything 8:57 am (EST) Apr 25, 2008

Hi, I like the new scottie display picture. The picture you have of a girl in a red coat walking her scottie looks just like us when we go for a walk.

Our walking weather is a bit hit and miss at the moment so we have to talk our walks while the sun is shining. While we are out we pick dandelions for the guinea pig to eat when we get home. And by that I mean that I pick them and Scottie runs around me barking and trying to steal the bag I put them in.

I'd love to see Gregor in action hiding your socks. Scottie hides her treats sometimes but often she seems to think that putting them in the middle of the carpet and scraping her nose along next to them. She looks very proud when she has finished 'burying' them and seems very out out if we move them after all her hard work.

Lähettänyt: Jodyreadseverything 4:14 pm (EST) Apr 24, 2008

Scottie's paw is slowly getting better despite the fact that she keeps forgetting and leaping about on it. The forgetting could be a good sign though because it must mean it isn't hurting all the time. I agree that once you are owned by a Scottie you don't really want any other dog, not matter how cute they might be.

Those people must have been very sorry to part with Gregor but how lucky for you to get him. Scottie was a hard puppy to train, partly because we lived in an upstairs flat and were working as well. And they really are very expensive because they are rare. I'm a bit jealous that you found a rescue scottie at all. We have tried a few times to get Scottie a friend and when we asked at the shelters they look all shocked and say "No, we don't see scottie's very often at all, nobody wants to part with a scottie." And why would they want to part with one?

How does Gregor cope while you are at work? Scottie liked to find a cosy place to snooze away the day on my bed or keep guard at the window. I would hide a couple of biscuits around the house to give her something to hunt down as well and she has a lot of toys. And a neighbour used to pop in once or twice a day to let her out to the garden. But if she has to stay in she's fine. They are a good breed to be trusted alone aren't they? Independent and able to entertain themselves but good if they are left with another dog.

Hope you and Gregor have a good week too.

Lähettänyt: Jodyreadseverything 2:44 pm (EST) Apr 13, 2008

Hey, kinda weird. I was looking at the "all the groups" page instead of Group home just now and it says AD has 22 members. The group home page has it right though at 13. It caught my attention though, so I thought I would share. Hope you're having a good week!

Lähettänyt: biblioholic29 9:28 am (EST) Apr 9, 2008

Talk about timing. I went out for a walk with my mum and the dogs and a lady came rushing over shouting "I've just come to look at your Scottie. We used to have two but you never see them now." Ha!

My mum said "nobody wants to see my Bob" and the lady said "well, we looked at him first but he's not a scottie and it's scotties we love." Ha again.

I'm such a dog snob, I love it when she meets a fan.

Lähettänyt: Jodyreadseverything 10:07 am (EST) Apr 8, 2008

Hi, compski! Just wanted to share that whenever I go through old profile mesages, your first message to me makes me laugh. You had thought I lead the HE group...and since then I became co-leader. Tres funny! Hope your week is off to a great start! :)

Lähettänyt: Kerian 1:37 am (EST) Apr 8, 2008

I just had a closer look at your bookshelves and seen all the Scottie's. They are lovely.

Lähettänyt: Jodyreadseverything 7:52 am (EST) Apr 7, 2008

Glad it was just a check up and everything went well. I have been told that on average Scottie's live between thirteen to seventeen years but I have met someone who said theirs got to twenty, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that Scottie does as well as that one. She was six on January 2nd and apart from picking up a couple of ear infections and being fed an undercooked barbeque sausage by a friend once she has never been ill.

She has chosen today to leap off the sofa and hurt her paw though, but after a bit of crying and limping she calmed down, had a biscuit and seemed to forget that anything had happened to her. For a while though I thought we were going to the vets too.

Lähettänyt: Jodyreadseverything 7:49 am (EST) Apr 7, 2008

I get that too. My favourite was a man who came up to us while we were walking her and said "Is that one of them wassnames, Scotties?" "Yes, she is." "My friend had one of them. Horrible little wassnames, they are." and off he went with no explanation about why. Now when she is naughty I shout "Horrible little wassname" at her but she knows I don't mean it.

Hope everything went well in the vets.

Lähettänyt: Jodyreadseverything 3:34 pm (EST) Apr 6, 2008

I'm really glad that you enjoyed Urban Dog and I would love to see your scottie hiding and pouncing. Mine does that to my brother every time he visits. She waits until he has his back turned and then she rushes out from where she was hiding and grabs his feet. Definetely Scotties forever!

Lähettänyt: Jodyreadseverything 10:16 am (EST) Mar 30, 2008

Not my sister! I thought maybe it was someone you'd invited from another thread! Wow, that was fast! I thought it'd be just the two of for a few days anyway. This is great!

I'm watching the first episode right now. I always end up craving frozen bananas when I watch this show. :)

Lähettänyt: biblioholic29 10:32 pm (EST) Mar 28, 2008

May I suggest that on the group homepage you have a little snippet a la "This is the story of the Bluth family..." it could be fun. I'm so happy you started this and the next time I see my sister, I'll try to get her in to the AD group!

Yay!!!!

Lähettänyt: biblioholic29 10:24 pm (EST) Mar 28, 2008

Gah! Why did I look at your profile? I have enough to read! Look away! Look away! Avert my...eyes...What Jane Austen ate? Hmmm. I'll have to see if the library has that one...

Thanks for the friending. The befriending? Friends!

*glances at the book list again.* I need to start writing these down...

Peace and Laughter,
Cristina

Lähettänyt: jugglingpaynes 9:36 pm (EST) Mar 27, 2008

I'm excited to have a fellow Arrested Development lover too! I've made Mandy2 watch them but she's not as into them. My other sister Hollybeee (she's on LT but I haven't gotten her to HE yet) got me into the show. Unfortunately I didn't discover AD until last year, but I immediately went out and bought all the DVDs after watching a few episodes with my sister. I watch them as often as I can and never tire of them either.

I know you said you've given up on TV since then, but I would like to suggest you try "Flight of the Conchords". It's an HBO show, but if you don't have HBO (I don't) the first season is out on DVD, maybe you could rent it and try it. It has a wierd quirky sense of humor and while it's very different from Arrested Development in plot and style, the humor is similar. (Flight of the Conchords is "the fourth most popular folk-satire group in New Zealand" or so they say, they have two or three of their songs in every episode including an awesome LOTR spoof.)

Lähettänyt: biblioholic29 8:13 am (EST) Mar 27, 2008

Woohooo! I am so very happy for you that you got runner up for the contest! :) I bet those three weeks seemed like forever. You're welcome for the good thoughts toward you winning! :)

I am very honored by your offer. It is extremely kind of you and touched me very much. You are so very nice! I would be happy for it, but you should offer it so someone else. Someone bought me a lifetime mmebership on LT nearly a year ago, but someone in charge on LT messed up. As soon as I read your post, I contacted the person about it again and they are notifying Tim about it (and not for the first time). *great hugs for you* because again, I was very touched by the offer.

I am jealous of the lit classes you have had - they sound wonderful! Once I transfer, it will be a whole lot of British and American lit courses through different time periods. If you end up taking a class this summer, hope it's one you enjoy and doesn't end you into having those bad dreams again. I've had those kind myself.

Thanks for the kind words and also good luck with your students! :)

Lähettänyt: Kerian 2:41 pm (EST) Mar 7, 2008

Hi, Compski!

Yep! I couldn't pick a book out and after twenty-four hours of going crazy, suge picked one from my TBR for me. Your quote makes we wonder if I should have read Wuthering Heights first. That one's in my TBR pile also. I've been meaning to read it for some time now. I'm glad it sounds as though the movie is good for a movie based on a book. Sometimes they're just so different! I'm usually good about considering books and movies of the same work as seperate, though.

I'm happy for you that you're through with reading college textbooks. I'm so tired of them! Thank goodness spring break is coming early this year. Maybe you can get some good reading time in then without suffering at school. Do you like working with kids?

My literature classes have expanded what I read as well. It's because of them that I became more interested in poetry and was introduced to works like Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. Which literature classes did you take? It sounds as though you may sometimes think about going back and doing something with English as your major field - do you think you do?

I truly love my major. I get to read all I want and then some. I enjoy the reading greatly, the class discussions, writing papers...but I'm just not feeling as happy about it as I'd thought I'd be. Some people tell me I'm lucky because it's not a competitive major, but sometimes it really does feel as though it is one! There's this feeling of being obliged to know everything and to achieve perfection in the literature classes which steals away the fun. It's not unusual in literature courses for people to want to hold back their majors from the rest of the class. You feel you can relax more and enjoy the classes better. Some of them are just so serious, though, and sometimes I struggle. I don't know. I'm thinking of not getting an AA in English anymore, just in Liberal Studies while I complete classes to transfer. Then I'll go after a BA in English Lit. I'm not really sure what I see when I think about the future except I think I would really enjoy working for a publisher, and I've always wanted to write. The light at the end of my tunnel is without a set goal date.

Lähettänyt: Kerian 9:04 pm (EST) Feb 20, 2008

I remember thinking that I would enjoy The Jane Austen Book Club better if I had read more of Austens works. Before I read that book, the only book I had read by Jane Austen was Pride and Prejudice, and truthfuly didn't enjoy the JABC as much as I felt I should have. I decided that once I read all of her books, I will reread it.

You don't have a lot of reading time, then, do you? I know the feeling of wanting to save some books for spring break and summer vacation when we can spend more time reading and focusing on whatever book we're reading. I think that's why I haven't read Mansfield Park yet. I had meant to read it last spring break. Maybe this year, huh. Do you limit yourself to how many books you read during the semesters?

I will take the note for Little, Big. Maybe once I have it I'll save the book for when I have a low-stress school week or less work hours.

Lähettänyt: Kerian 12:15 pm (EST) Feb 19, 2008

Thank you for the compliment to my profile page.

I'm glad to hear you liked The Book Thief! I think I'm going to read it by the end of this month. Thanks for the book recommendation!

I'm glad I found LT for lots of reasons! I knew some readers before, but none who read the same things as me. Over the last few months I've been excited to see how many of us in the HE group enjoy reading the same books. I myself forgot about Fforde's books for a few years till I saw The Eyre Affair in a library right after I'd read Jane Eyre. The Thursday Next series is a real delight.

I heard that Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure is better than Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict. What did you think of The Jane Austen Book Club? I read it a few years ago.

Good luck with fighting off the backlash! I need to hope I don't end up buying an outrageous number of books for lack of bookshopping, too.

Yes, I liked The Other Boleyn Girl. I got through reading some information on her books a little while ago and funny enough decided I may read the very three books you've named by her. It's a shame none measure up to The Other Boleyn Girl. Maybe the author will have something new and exciting with some magic yet.

My weekend was good, thank you. Other than working, my weekend was quiet and uneventful, but I got to spend a lot of time reading which was nice.

Hope you're enjoying your day off. :)

Lähettänyt: Kerian 6:23 pm (EST) Feb 18, 2008

Hi, compski! I just read your book challenge. Interesting profile page! :)

I'm excited for you when you read The Well of Lost Plots for the first time. There's nothing like reading a book for the first time. :) It's difficult to pick a favorite book in the Thursday Next series - I love them all - but that book is simply wonderful.

Hope Austenland is good. I've walked by it a few times and nearly bought it myself. I figured that I simply have too many books about Austen that I still need to read, so I'm making myself wait till those are read. Or maybe some of them, anyways. ;)

I notice you have The Boleyn Inheritance in your 'Thinking About Reading' list. Does that follow The Other Boleyn Girl? I've been wondering if there is any sort of order to the author's books. Thanks!

Hope you've enjoyed your weekend and that Mansfield Park is a good read.

Lähettänyt: Kerian 4:01 pm (EST) Feb 18, 2008

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