No hatred here, Kate.  This is one tag that I don’t mind in the least. Will get to it when I have a minute or ten in the next few days. 

An 1890 “Jane Eyre”?  How cool is that?!  It’ll probably be in my favourite five, too ... even though my copy is just a standard 1980s issue.  ;) I have to agree that “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” is just about the ultimate romance novel.  Oh, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder series is a childhood favourite of mine, too.  I read them myself when I was short, but did the chapter at a time thing with Stephanie when she was a child.

Yeah, I dropped the ball on this one. I forgot to mention that you had to tag 5 people or your teeth would rot, bad luck would plague you, etc.

I loved Lady Chatterley’s Lover ... it’s been eons since I read it (when was high school?), but that would be one of my all-time favs too.

Thank you for sharing your love of books.  I have to add to my must-reads. 

John Daido Loori’s book, the Eight Gates of Zen is one of the things that led me to zen practice.  I loved Zen of Creativity even though I hated the title.  I was originally attracted to his writing because he is a photographer and zen master.

Well, whew! That makes me feel better, Eleanor. It’s always fun thinking about books, but I’m usually a little hesitant about asking folks to participate in these memes.

Linkmeister hasn’t seen the bad news yet. ;)

Steve—Oopsie. Too late now.

Robin—I have the impression that when Loori began writing the book, he intended it to go in a different direction. I find the title a little misleading. Which is all the better, in my opinion. It is really a fascinating book and will, undoubtedly, lead me to read more by him. I would also like to see the body of his photography, from early years through. I’m not sure that ‘faith in action’ is quite the phrase I’m looking for, but I would like to see the influence of his practice on his photography—to see how he and it changed.

Ai-e-e-e-e!

Lynn—another Lady Chatterley’s Lover devotee! Now that makes you an extra-special person, in my book. That was the last book Lawrence wrote, published privately two years before his death. It was an interesting note to go out on. Probably quite a bit of thumbing his nose at the establishment involved. But clearly something that he’d wanted to write for a long time.

Considered pornographic, the book wasn’t legal to publish in the UK or US until around 1960. How things have changed since then. It is a gorgeous book.

My Dad had a copy of the book, and I remember him telling me, that yes, I could read it, but I was NOT to take it out of the house and read ... 

Yes, I was also instructed not to take my book out of the house.

I think it is time for a re-read of Lady Chatterly--I had a copy when I was fairly young and read it by flashlight when everyone else was asleep in my house!!  And loved it, but wasn’t suppose to have it!!  I cannot remember where I got it, certainly not in the local library.  It was about the same time my mother had to go in to the library and sign a slip saying I could pick out ANY BOOK I WANTED TO READ and that they did not have to restrict me to age-appropriate ones!  I had forgotten that whole part of my life until just now.  Amazing that a memory of reading LC’sL would bring back that memory!!

PS--has anyone else had any problems posting on here lately or is it just me and my aol?  I have written responses several times lately, but when I hit submit, I get a blank page and the response is gone!!  This time I copied it before I tried to post..........IF this one shows up, it is on the third try!!

Hmm. Okay. How many of you have read Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier? I haven’t read it in many, many years, but recall it as being a pretty fine read on the same, although slightly more respectable, order as LCL. . Five hankies required.

Cyn, I don’t know what’s up with AOL and ExpressionEngine. They’ve never seemed to be completely compatible. However, I’ve also developed the habit of copying comments before posting, just in case. I’ve lost a few, too.