J is for Jane Austen

Originally I was planning to write about three of my favourite James for J. Henry James, P D James and my last year find Peter James. I have changed my mind and I am now writing about Jane Austen.

Jane Austen is one of my favourite authors. I went through a Jane Austen phase and read all her books. Though I love all her books, I like Sense and Sensibility more than Pride and Prejudice. I don't usually reread books but maybe one of these days I will reread one of her books.

I is for Inspector

I love mysteries and detective stories. There are inspectors and inspectors. There is the poetry writing Inspector Dalgliesh, crossword crazy Inspector Morse, classic lover Inspector Wexford, Inspector Bosch, Inspector Rebus, Inspector Macdonald, Inspector Alan Grant, Inspector DeKok and many others.

Do you read mystery books? Who is your favourite Inspector?

H is for Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn is one of my favourite characters. He first appeared in Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He went on to have his own adventures, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn later. I found Huck Finn more fascinating than Tom Sawyer. Have you read these books or any other book by Mark Twain?

G is for Great Expectations

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is one of my favourite books. It tells the story of Pip who is fascinated by Miss. Havisham and her protégée Estella. Pip is in love with Estella and she is cruel and incapable of love. Pip has a unknown benefactor. Will Estella reciprocate? Who is the benefactor? I love this book. Pip is one of my favourite characters.
Have you read this book? Or any other book by Charles Dickens?

F is for Friday Memes

This week I am posting from Harlan Coben's Stay Close

Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our current read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader.

Sometimes, in that split second when Ray Levine snapped a picture and lost the world in the strobe from his flashbulb, he saw the blood.


Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book.

Megan looked into Agnes's frightened face. Agnes had been so sharp just a few years back- funny and cutting and wonderfully ribald.

Theme Thursday

Theme Thursday is a fun weekly Meme hosted at Reading Between the Pages.

This weeks theme is Foolish/Stupidity

This snippet is from Gladys Mitchell's Tom Brown's Body

I am not so foolish as to suppose that you and Mr Merrys murdered Mr Conway, even if you did go out on Mr Loveday's bicycle.

E is for Eliot

E is for George Eliot and T.S.Eliot

George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss is one of my favourite books. After reading an excerpt from The Mill on the Floss in my school English reader, I read this book. The Mill on the Floss tells the story of Maggie Tulliver from her childhood, her escapades as a kid, her relationship with her brother, and about a man who loves her and another whom she loves.

I had to read T.S. Eliot's Family Reunion for my degree and I didn't like it. What is this thing about Eumenides haunting you? Can the sins of your fathers haunt you? What is thing pain being joy? But as days go by Eliot along with his Eumeides come to haunt me. I think if I don't like Eliot Eumenides will take their vengeance on me.

If I tried to explain, you could never understand;
Explaining would only make a worse misunderstanding...

Accident is design
And design is accident
In a cloud of unknowing.

Have you read anything by these Eliots? There is one another Eliot, an author I will write about later. Have you heard about the other Eliot?