Mikiala

Posted 17 Years Ago

Yeah, older books which are regarded as top quality and also some top class books from the twentieth century. I haven't read any of the books you mentioned, but they're books which I would like to read. I know my younger brother read Catcher in the Rye and really enjoyed it. The Alice In Wonderland books don't really strike me as being childish at all. My dad has read quite a lot of Lewis Carroll's work and has tried to explain it to me, but I've just got confused. I don't understand all the mathematical patterns in it.

I love antique books. They're so beautiful. A friend bought me an antique edition of The Odyssey from 1920 for my 18th birthday and then my parents bought me a gorgeous antique edition of my favourite book Wuthering Heights from the early 20th Century.

I haven't read much of Steinbeck, only a bit of his travel writing which I've looked at for my English Language course.

The stuff I enjoy reading is the classics. I like ancient mythology, particularly Greek, and I like the Epics. I LOVE reading Shakespeare, Hamlet is my favourite play. I also love the Brontes, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, and Elizabeth Gaskell. All the great English novelists. I began reading the English writers first when I was younger and now I'm starting to read European novels such as Madame Bovary, and American novels like Tender Is the Night. As well as plays and novels I enjoy reading poetry by Tennyson, Browning, the Romantics, Emily Bronte, Shakespeare. I suppose I'd better stop. I could talk about books all day long.
The first classic I ever read was Little Women when I was about eight or nine. I still adore it now.

Have you read anything by any of those writers?

Posted 17 Years Ago

Thanks friend for the review. I try to use big words..its a hobby of mine. Sometimes it comes out funny though : )

Posted 17 Years Ago

Thanks for your review on 'If I Knew What Love Was'. I appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time. - Samantha

Posted 17 Years Ago

Oh, and almost forgot, thanks for the review as well, I really appreciate it.

Posted 17 Years Ago

Thanks for the add. Yes, I have read Jane Eyre. Funily enough it was not the first Bronte novel which I read but the third. I know most people tend to read Charlotte first. But I read Emily, then Anne, and finally Charlotte. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I enjoyed Wuthering Heights or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I read Wide Sargasso Sea (prequel to JE) by Jean Rhys after I'd read Jane Eyre, and I found that I disliked Rochester more and more. Nevertheless, C. Bronte's writing is top class.

Hope you enjoy the rest of the novel. Which other classics have you read?

Posted 17 Years Ago

A dingey: It's a small rubber boat used for fishing!

Posted 17 Years Ago

Hi there, thank you so much for your review, I really appreciate it!
Hope you have a great weekend
Be well,
Jenny

Posted 17 Years Ago

Hi Mikiala

The answer to your enquiry is as follows:

Go to Edit Profile and scroll down to the Biography.

At the end of your Bio, you can paste any HTML code you like. There are loads of suppliers of code (example glitter-graphics.com) and if you are not happy with the result of one, just edit again, deleting that code and replace it with another.

Hope this is helpful

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Posted 17 Years Ago

Thank you for taking the time to read and review "True Fiction". I appreciate your kind words.

Posted 17 Years Ago

Haha not a problem. I'd explain it to you but I'm not sure where you're having trouble. When you get the message and open it look right above the message on the right side and you'll see a gray reply button. The rest is pretty self-explanatory. Well that's cool. We all have our own reasons for writing. Yours doesn't make you lame at all. I think the same way a lot of the time. Knowledge is a good thing to have and even better in large quantities.lol