Megan Fox

 

Katie, Megan Betsy
John, Ned, Rob
Tenny - the "puppy"

 


 

Great Books (Selected Favorites)

I have recently enjoyed: The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood - this years winner of the Booker Prize), The Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver), Island Justice (Elizabeth Winthrop), The Harry Potter series, Plainsong, The Phantom Tollbooth (don't know how I missed this as a kid!), The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The Bone People, Talking to the Dead, A Very Long Engagement, Lesson Before Dying, Map of the World, Book of Ruth.

Recent Bestsellers: 
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
  • The Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The English Patient by Micheal Ondaatje
  • Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  • The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
  • Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stevens
  • Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  • Lost World by Michael Crichton
  • The Sword of Shannara (and all the others in the series) by Terry Brooks
 Classic Authors: 
  • Jane Austen, such as Pride and Prejudice
  • Charlotte Bronte, such as Jane Eyre
  • Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
  • Charles Dickens, such as Hard Times and Bleak House
  • Elswyth Thane (Beebee), the Williamsburg Novels
  • Edith Wharton, such as House of Mirth
  • Mary Stewart, especially Nine Coaches Waiting and her Crystal Cave (King Arthur) series
  • TH White, The Once and Future King
  • Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
 Children/Young Adult 
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery, such as the Anne of Green Gables series and the Emily of New Moon series
  • Philippa Pearce, such as Tom's Midnight Garden
  • Ruth Sawyer, such as Roller Skates
  • Lloyd Alexander, such as The Book of Three series
  • Susan Cooper, such as the Under Sea, Over Stone series
  • Madeline L'Engle, such as the Wrinkle in Time and Meet the Austins series
  • Katherine Patterson, such as The Bridge to Terabithia
  • Carol Brink, such as Caddie Woodlawn
  • Joan Aiken, such as the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series
  • Frances Hodgeson Burnett, such as The Secret Garden

    • E. Nesbit, such as the Treasure Seekers
 

Lists of award and prize winners:

Booker Prize || Orange Prize || Wordsworths lists || National Book || American Fiction || Links to many lists

 

 

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Favorite Flicks

Great! 
  • Empire of the Sun 
  • Remains of the Day 
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Sense and Sensibility 
  • Jane Eyre 
  • Cinema Paradisio 
  • Much Ado About Nothing 
  • Braveheart 
  • Shawshank Redemption 
  • Maverick 
  • The Secret Garden 
  • Shadowlands 
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Gladiator
  • Life is Beautiful
  • Amelie
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding
 Quite Good: 
  • Beaches 
  • Henry V 
  • That Thing You Do 
  • Legends of the Fall 
  • No Way Out 
  • The Fugitive 
  • Silence of the Lambs 
  • Empire Records 
  • Sneakers 
  • Sabrina 
  • Twelve Monkeys 
  • Finding Forrester
  • The Patriot
  • Sixth Sense
  • Matrix
 Eighties Favorites/Classics: 
  • Sure Thing 
  • Breakfast Club 
  • Pretty in Pink 
  • Sixteen Candles 
  • Better Off Dead 
  • Hard to Hold 
  • Outrageous Fortune 
  • Stand by Me 
  • Dead Poets Society 
  • Beaches 
  • Star Wars Trilogy 
  • Indiana Jones Trilogy 
  • The Sound of Music 
 Good from the past few years:
  • Ocean's 11
  • Amelie
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • What Dreams May Come 
  • Ever After 
  • Good Will Hunting 
  • LA Confidential
  • Amistad
  • Grosse Point Blank 
  • The English Patient 
  • Shine 
  • Koyla 
  • Marvin's Room 
 
Any movie with
Christian Bale Harrison Ford
Emma Thompson
is probably worth watching!

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