Re: What's Everyone Reading?/Welcome Newbies!

Welcome new members, including those from the Dorothy-L list (hi, 
Irene!)  I know you'll like what you see.

At 05:39 PM 5/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:
 >The Importance of Being Earnest is my all time fave play by Oscar Wilde

Oh, yes!  Mine, too.  It's one of my favorite plays.  We used to do one 
particular scene when I was in drama class in high school, the one between 
the two ladies who are both engaged (and they think it's to the same man) 
and have the cat fight while they're on the train.  We took that scene to 
all kinds of contests and won trophies.

I've been saying for a while that Austen was rediscovered, Dickens gets 
rediscovered by each generation, and then we had a flurry about someone 
else who went all over PBS and miniseries and so forth (I've forgotten now 
who it is, but it's a venerable person you'd recognize from the Classics 
list).  And I've been saying that next we'd see Oscar Wilde.  I predict a 
movie or two will come out within the next few years of one of Wilde's 
major works.  Just wait and see!

"Confessions Of An English Opium Eater' by Thomas De Quincey

Now that one sounds interesting.  What was it about (other than the obvious 
title?)  Is it an older book?

 >I LOVED Little Altars and found it to be superior to Divine Secrets of 
the Ya-Ya
 >Sisterhood, though it is still a good book.

I have those on my to-be-read queue (TRQ).  Coincidentally, the working 
title of the book I'm writing now is _Little Rituals_.  It's about the 
rituals of life (like greetings, birthdays, everything that you do which is 
guided by convention and ritual) and how they structure our days, and how 
one woman realizes they affect her.  Well, it's really about her inner 
journey and growth, but the rituals and polite forms that she recognizes 
are everywhere play a role.  I wonder if the editors will think that title 
is too close?  Could be.  We'll see.  My book is actually Chick Lit, like 
those Red Dress Ink books but a bit more literary, or so I hope.

 >Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

Is this one a mystery?  I'll have to look for it.  I confess that I always 
check the used book stores in this neighborhood before I buy at full price. 
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