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Aug 21, 2017 07:34AM

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Mmmmm, I loved The Mysteries of Udolpho. Totally bananas gothic novels really tickle my fancy. Have you read The Monk? It makes Udolpho look so very, very restrained and coherent.
I read Wuthering Heights for this prompt, since it's mentioned in Wittgenstein's Mistress and it was already on my to-read bookshelf. As expected, given my fondness for the overwrought and illogical, I thoroughly enjoyed it. So many tantrums! So little reason! Why does Mr. Lockwood have absolutely no sense of personal space or discomfort at staying where he isn't wanted? I literally laughed until there were tears in my eyes. Good times.


Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps � and What We Can Do About It
Also: Man Made Language
He also mentioned Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, which he evicerates

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Her favorite bios & memoirs:






Her list of Good Books with Bad Covers:







Books under 200 pages:












Books over 500 pages:






Series mentioned:
The Miss Marple Series by Agatha Christie
Big Stone Gap Series by Adriana Trigiani
The Easy Rawlins Mystery Series by Walter Mosley
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Magic Eye books
Dork Diaries by Rachel Renée Russell
Ripley Series by Patricia Highsmith
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Divergent series by Veronica Roth
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

Books:
Jane Eyre
Never Let Me Go
Atonement
Lady Chatterly's Lover: Novel
1984
Enduring Love
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder on the Links
Lord Edgeware Dies
4:50 from Paddington
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Five Little Pigs
And Then There Were None
Hickory Dickory Dock
Death on the Nile
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Godfather
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
The Mousetrap: A Play
Referenced:
Adventure of the Abbey Grange
The Adventure of the Final Problem
Neverwhere (Character names are Tube stations)
Authors:
the Brontë sisters
Ian Rankin
Agatha Christie
Robert Harris
Jane Austin
Noël Coward
P. D. James
J.K. Rowling
Enid Blyton
Matthew Prichard
Arthur Conan Doyle
Kazuo Ishiguro
Ian McEwan
James Herriot
Danielle Steel
Rupert Brooke
Sarah Waters
E.M. Forster
Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens
Margaret Mitchell
H. C. McNeile
Salman Rushdie
Martin Amis
David Mitchell
Will Self
Ian Fleming
A.A. Milne
Graham Greene
Anthony Burgess
Muriel Spark
Characters:
Harry Potter
Hercule Poirot
Sherlock Holmes
Lord Peter Wimsey
Father Brown
Philip Marlowe
Emma Woodhouse
Miss Marple
James Bond
Inspector Rebus
Inspector Morse
Wackford Squeers
Mr. Bumble
Jerry Cruncher
Dr. John Watson
Scarlett O'Hara
Peter Pan
Luke Skywalker
Jack Reacher
Fagan
Shylock
Moriarty
Tommy & Tuppence
Nero Wolfe
Bulldog Drummond
Col. Hastings
Gavin Troy
Bunton
Inspector Lewis
Flambeau
Carl Peterson
Arnold Zeck
Mr. Rochester
TV:
Midsomer Murders
Sherlock
Inspector Morse
Taggart
Lewis
Foyle’s War
Endeavour
A Touch of Frost
Luther
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Cracker
Broadchurch
Maigret
Wallander
Poirot

Nicholas Nickelby--Charles Dickens
Surfacing--Margaret Atwood
The Iliad--Homer
The Odyssey--Homer
The Second Sex--Simon de Beauvoir
A Vindication of the Rights of Women--Mary Wollstonecraft
The Sun Also Rises--Ernest Hemingway
These are the only ones I can remember right now.
I think I will be reading Nicholas Nickelby.

I'm listening to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao right now (and I am loving it) and there are A LOT of mentions of Tokien's ring cycle and The Hobbit, plus references to Innsmouth (Lovecraft), Jack Kirby, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Dune, Octavia Butler, and Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies (and a lot more but I wasn't taking notes while I read so I've forgotten a lot of them)


I just saw And Then There Were Nuns at a book sale. Too bad i didnt get it. Now I'm interested lol
Christina wrote: "Just in case it hasn't been posted
Goodread list of books mentioned in other books list"
Fantastic resource! I've never seen that list before!!
Not sure how reliable it is though (like any list on GR I guess, it's always "buyer beware") because I can't imagine what book mentioned Gold Fame Citrus, it was just published a few years ago, not enough time to get a mention in another novel, surely? (that one just jumped out at me because it's one of the few that I've read)
Goodread list of books mentioned in other books list"
Fantastic resource! I've never seen that list before!!
Not sure how reliable it is though (like any list on GR I guess, it's always "buyer beware") because I can't imagine what book mentioned Gold Fame Citrus, it was just published a few years ago, not enough time to get a mention in another novel, surely? (that one just jumped out at me because it's one of the few that I've read)

Goodread list of books mentioned in other books list"
Fantastic resource! I've never seen that list before!!
Not sure how reliable it is th..."
Hi, if you look at post #106 (the one with all the covers) Gold Fame Citrus is mentioned in Dear Fahrenheit 451: A Librarian's Love Letters and Break-Up Notes to the Books in Her Life!

Thanks so much for itemizing these for us!
Emma wrote: "Books mentioned in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society are listed here "
That is one of my favorite books!
That is one of my favorite books!
Books mentioned in this topic
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (other topics)Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks (other topics)
Gold Fame Citrus (other topics)
Gone with the Wind (other topics)
Les Misérables (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Kylie Logan (other topics)Anthony Burgess (other topics)
Muriel Spark (other topics)
Graham Greene (other topics)
Martin Amis (other topics)
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