A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving?)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, my all time favorite

These are books I revisit every few years, just love them, they are like old friends.

In the spirit of the season, you may want to read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Happy reading!

Comment on another post: RE: being uncomfortable in Catholic groups as a Convert. I was uncomfortable in Catholic groups in my 20′s and I was a cradle Catholic. I was just pretty much uncomfortable most of my 20′s.

Question 1:
A) Lord of the Rings
B) Tony Hillerman Novels (Mysteries set in 4 corners region with Navajo main characters – Hillerman was Catholic BTW father of 6? but not ‘Catholic’ Novels)
C) Ivan Doig’s trilogy “Dancing at the Rascal Fair” “This House of Sky” and “Ride with me Mariah Montana”
D) “The Big Sky” A. B. Guthrie

Question 2:
You’re doing it. Making sense of Culture, life and Catholicism as best you can with the eyes of someone who is still fresh and not as tired as I am.

Question 3: The one about the priest who called in sick for Sunday Mass because it was a perfect morning for golf. God helps him play the round of his life finishing with a hole in one. St. Peter asks God why he did that? God says – “Who’s he going to tell?”

Hmm, writing topics. Let’s see here. Um, thinking. I can’t even think about interesting things for me to write about. Oh, here’s one. I once asked my readers what they would get if they got a plastic/cosmetic procedure and the answers were really, really interesting to me.

I’ve told you my favorite joke a million times. Why do penguins sit on marshmallows?

1a. Harry Potter…I’ve read the entire series several times and have started it again. In fact, I have been reading the first book to Alice. It takes a LOT longer to read a book when reading to an infant.
1b. White Star…coincidentally this appears to be a favorite among all of us Long children. I have read it a zillion times and will continue to do so. Now if they would just make a movie out of this…hmm, maybe I’ll make a movie of it!
1c. Twilight series…you got me hooked (just like Gilmore Girls)! I just realized the other day that I unintentionally named my daughter after my favorite vampire in the book Now if I can just name my yet-to-be-picked-out kitten Twilight (appropriate b/c I like the book, it would fit with Alice, and she was born on the full moon right after Halloween!)

2. Hmm…not sure if I can think of anything to suggest writing about. I should probably ask my readers the same thing on my blog. I really need to get my own ideas instead of stealing yours (but I give credit where credit is due). What does NaBloPoMo stand for?

3. My favorite appropriate joke…I have a hard time remembering jokes. Well really the punch line. I will have to try harder because I will have to start telling Alice jokes soon

Hope you are feeling better! I love you and can’t wait to see you soon!!!

Oh, and I have a SUPER nice, BIG surprise for you when you come home And for once, I am not going to tell you before-hand! Yay, me! I won’t cave…I won’t cave…so don’t try to talk it out of me! I can keep it a surprise (I really hope!) for another month and a half!

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. I think I’ve read this book ninety-four frillion times and I love it EVERY SINGLE TIME. I am going to get it off my shelf RIGHT NOW.

The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by Patricia Machlachlan. (I think you would really like this one.)

The Chosen by Chaim Potok.

The only grown up book I think I’ve read more than once or twice is Written On The Body by Jeanette Winterson. It’s a love story, but you don’t know the gender of the narrator and… it’s just really powerful. At least, it was to College Me.

a. The Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace.
b. Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom, lesser-known books by Louisa May Alcott (the author of Little Women)
c. The Lord Peter series by Dorothy Sayers
ooh ooh I have to do one more
d. Georgette Heyer novels
also
e. The Little House books
and
f. The Narnia Chronicles

So I like a lot of books. So what?

(which reminds me of…”So I got a lot of eggs. And I keep them in the couch…”)

I’m not sure what it says that 66% of my favorite books are children’s literature…

Lots more where these came from! What do you like or dislike?