Amazingly Awesome Used Book Store

So I found this amazingly awesome used book store yesterday!!!! I was in HEAVEN!!! There were so many books!!! Since I'm trying to read some classics I really don't wanna pay $15.00 for a book that I might not read or I might not get to, so I went on a hunt for a good cheap bookstore, well I didn't have any luck until yesterday while out with my book-loving best friend who is my sister from another mother( yea I know you prolly don't want to know all that but she is ) we found a bookstore that was so over that they were stacked in the floor and in boxes , it was CRAZY but I loved it. I got soooooo lucky I found a lot of the books on my list plus some, but I didn't buy them all. I got David Cooperfield, To Whom the Bell Tolls, The Origin of Speices, The Great Gatsby, and Pride & Prejudice all for $7.00 oh yea! So when I get done reading these or just becuz I feel like I am sooo going back to this bookstore but next time I will so take pictures ! Still trying to read Jane Eyre and I just can not for the life of me finish it so I do believe she is going to go back on the bookcase for a while and I am going to read a shorter book , The Great Gatsby now. Wish me luck with it ! Hope you all have a wonderful sunshine filled weekend and let me know what you read on the weekends when you have time. Where is your favorite spot to read? Mine when its pretty and sunny is either on my back patio area or sometimes I am brave and pack up a blanket and head out to the field and soak up some sun while enjoying the sweet sounds of nature!

Mr. Rochester and Beyond

So now that I am 120 pages into the story it is now getting my attention more and more. Now that I have got to meet Mr. Rochester I feel I maybe able to read this book a little faster or at least have it done by Tuesday when my favorite author in the world's new book comes out, Sherrilyn Kenyon! I normally can read a book in a matter of a day or two if it catches my interest in the first couple pages but for some reason it has taken this classic several chapters to catch my interest it does not help that I do not sometimes understand what this woman is saying ! I know this is a book from a different time and I am going to try my best to respect that. On to other things my next classic I believe after this one might be Lord of the Flies, or maybe Animal Farm or my all time favorite book from high school To Kill A Mockingbird? Or perhaps you have a suggestion of a book you consider a classic for me to read. Well Mr. Rochester and Miss Eyre are calling my name, off to outside to soak up the sun and enjoy some classical music !

Just not that into it....

Ahhhh..... I feel horrible! I keep trying to read Jane Eyre and I just can not get into this story !!! It doesn't help that my book loving cousin comes over and shows me she just bought Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed to tease me with because I can't read them till she is done with them :( I so want to read some classics but it's so hard to get into such a long drug out story ! I've got so many suggestions from friends and family on books to read that my list just keeps getting bigger and my husband keeps asking me "Are you going to buy all these books?"  I am going to buy a good bit of them but not new, I'm heading out to a couple used books stores this week with my list to see if I can hunt up a few these books! Wish me luck with both finding some books and reading about poor Miss Jane!

Reading Jane Eyre and GoodReads.com

So I've started reading one of the books on the list  I posted yesterday, Jane Eyre. And so far I am really enjoying what is said to be classic, but I do have a hard time sometimes understanding what the Author is talking about. I'm just now at the part where is has been sent away to the school and let me just say I'm glad she is gone from the horrible home. I'm so thankful to have grown up in a time where being cousins isn't like that and that my Aunt's and Uncles are caring. I feel so bad for this young girl who has NO ONE. I hope to give a better review once I'm done reading this book and think I'm going to truely enjoy it.

Onto another Topic I recently joined www.goodreads.com and its a pretty neat little website for people to review and talk about books. But what I really want to talk about is a message I got from a Gentlemen from New York.
 Here is the message he sent me:

NYKen said to you: Hi Gina, Good evening. I’m Ken from NY. The genres that I read consists mostly of Mystery and Suspense/Thrillers. Aside from that, I would also read non-fiction. I wanted to try reading something new for a change. A friend of mine suggested why not read romance novels. I was somewhat surprised at the suggestion. Of course, I thought about it, and googled the top romance authors at this time. I chose Nora Roberts from the list, and typed her name here at Good Reads. And this novel, “Vision in White” appeared at the top of the reading list. I will give it a try and drop by Barnes and Noble sometime this week. Your name popped up as one of the many people that rated this book. I hope you don’t mind me asking you two questions about romance and romance novels. 1] In your opinion, what is romance to you? 2] What do you as a reader, get from reading romance novels? I am sorry to take your time, but thanks very much for taking the time to read my message to you. Your time is very much appreciated. Have a good weekend. Thanks & Best Regards, Ken

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Okay for starters I like a guy who is going to give romance novels a try , I like a guy even MORE when he picks Nora Roberts for his first Romance Author to try, so of course I replied back how could I not. 

But before I post my response I want to ask you Why do you read a certain kind of novel over another? 

What do you get from reading those kinds of books? Me I love almost any book about any subject, yes I have my favorites but I will read just about anything.Why you ask? Because I like to read! Reading is the ultimate way for us to use our imagination, we as the reader get to visualize the characters how we seem them and the author gets to share their vision with us. Well I hope you all learned something from this and that is to go outside of your comfort zone of reading and try something new , you never know you might like what you read but before you go here is my response to his questions:

 

			Good Morning! I personal think Nora Roberts is a perfect author to start off with if you want to give romance a try. But I want to suggest a different book series to you other than "Vision in White" it is a very good book but to me very girlie. Try the Sign of Seven Trilogy , the books are "Blood Brothers" "The Hollow" and "The Pagan stone, it is a romance but it also has a little bit of thrillers and somethings that go bump in the night plus the main characters are 3 guys. But to answer your questions 1) To me Romance is about how to people fall in love and the obstacles that stand in their way to get there, hence one reason why Nora Roberts is the perfect author to read to me for romance. It's all about how either how these two people have to fight for their love or are fighting something together and don't even know they are in love that gets me. 2) I get joy from reading them just as I do from any other books that I read. I'm not one of those "I wish that this was my life " kind of readers. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't complain if my husband wanted to take a few ques from the romance books I read . Romance novels aren't an escape to a world where knights in shining armor still exist to me they are just simple joy to read about how to people simply fall in love.

While looking up books list I found this one and thought I would share it with you all.

 http://pigfish.hubpages.com/hub/List-of-Classic-Books-to-Read-Before-You-Die

List of Classic Books to Read Before You Die

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My daughter came home from school with a list of books considered to be “classics”. Her teacher said everyone should read these books before they die.
I found this list fascinating and have had much fun crossing off books I have already read and hitting the library, my favorite local bookstore or Amazon.com to pick up those I have not. Some on the list surprised me. For example, I love “Cold Sassy Tree”, but had never heard it referred to as a classic. And three books by Virginia Hamilton? I have never read her before.
I am sure you will find some of your favorites missing although it is a fairly complete list. See what you think and let me know.  
Many thanks to my daughter's Reading teacher, Mrs. Kayser, for providing the list. What would the world be without fabulous, caring, inspiring teachers?
Happy reading!

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Classic Books Organzied by Author's Last Name

• A Death in the Family James Agee
• Little Women Louisa May Alcott
• Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
• The Fantastic Voyage Isaac Asimov
• Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
• Light a Single Candle B. Balter
• Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Barnes
• When the Legends Die Hal Borland
• Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury
• Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
• To Sir with Love E.R. Braithwaite
• Home Before Dark Sue Ellen Bridger
• Notes for Another Life Sue Ellen Bridger
• Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
• The Big Wave Pearl Buck
• The Good Earth Pearl Buck
• The Stranger Albert Camus
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
• My Antonia Willa Cather
• The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov
• Ten Little Indians Agatha Christie READ
• Where the Lilies Bloom Vera and Bill Cleaver
• Molly’s Pilgrim Barbara Cohen
• War Comes to Willie Freeman J.H. Collier
• The Chocolate War Robert Cormier
• Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
• I Heard the Owl Call my Name Margaret Craven
• David Copperfield Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations Charles Dickens
• A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
• Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
• Adventures of Sherlock Homes Arthur Conan Doyle
• Silas Marner George Eliot
• Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
• April Morning Howard Fast
• The Portable Faulkner William Faulkner
• The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
• Johnny Tremaine Esther Forbes
• The Slave Dancer Paula Fox
• Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank READ
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest J. Gaines
• Julie of the Wolves Jean C. George
• Old Yeller Fred Gipson
• Lord of the Flies William Golding
• Summer of my German Soldier Bette Greene
• Death be not Proud John Gunther
• The House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton
• Zeely Virginia Hamilton
• M.C. Higgins the Great Virginia Hamilton
• A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry
• The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
• The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
• The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
• All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot
• Outsiders S.E. Hinton
• Tex S. E. Hinton
• Brave New World Aldous Huxley
• A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
• The Story of my Life Helen Keller
• Gentlehands M.E. Kerr
• Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
• Stride toward Freedom Martin Luther King Jr.
• A Separate Peace John Knowles
• To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee READ
• Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis
• Main Street Sinclair Lewis
• Call of the Wild Jack London

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
• The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Poet to Remember P. McKissack
• Moby Dick Herman Melville
• The Crucible Arthur Miller
• Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
• Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers
• Scorpions Walter Dean Myers
• Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell
• Animal Farm George Orwell
• Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
• Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson
• Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson
• Summer of the Swans Katherine Paterson
• Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
• Hatchet Gary Paulsen
• A Day No Pigs Would Die Richard Peck READ
• The Chosen Chaim Potok
• The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
• All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
• The King Must Die Mary Renault
• A Light in the Forest Conrad Richter
• Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rosmond
• The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
• Hamlet William Shakespeare
• Macbeth William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare READ
• Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
• The Rivals Richard B. Sheridan
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Antigone Sophocles
• Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare
• The Witch of Black Bird Pond Elizabeth George Speare
• East of Eden John Steinbeck
• The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
• Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
• The Pearl John Steinbeck
• The Red Pony John Steinbeck
• Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor
• The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
• Rabbit, Run John Updyke
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
• Dicey's Song Cynthia Volght
• Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
• Once and Future King T.H. White
• The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
• Little House in the Big Woods (series) Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
• The Matchmaker Thornton Wilder
• Our Town Thornton Wilder
• The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams
• Native Son Richard Wright

What saddens me the most about this list is while in school my Teachers only had us read 6 of these books. When talking to family and friends who went to school during a different time or place than myself it schocks them that I never read Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby , Jane Eyre, Where the Red Fern Grows, and so many others. I feel as if my teachers and my school didn't challenge us as students enough because I went to a small county school in the middle of no where Alabama. It makes me think about the education my nieces, nephews and younger cousins are getting seeing as they all go to the same school I did. So to correct the mistakes of my teachers I'm going to take several books from the list and read them. There are some that I have never in my life ever heard of and others I have seen and wonder about, some are on other book list I have seen . Let me know Which of these book you have read. Where the a required school reading? Or did you just up and choose to read it? Which are your favorites and which did you not care about? Would you re-read any of them? Let me know give me your thoughts and input on the subject of required reading list for schools.

Hello there Books Worms

Hello and Welcome to Book Worms Anonymous! I'm Gina the Book Worm and I love BOOKS!!!!
Even as a kids I was always reading, even if I was picked on for liking to read when reading was cool . As an adult I have a much wider taste in books than ever!! The goal of this blog is so that other Book Lovers and myself can talk about the books we are reading , books we wanna read and/or see what others have to say about a book before we read it. Think of this as a off the wall not normal book club where everyone reads what they want when they want and can say whatever they want about a book.

Just to give a lil background info on myself.

I'm 27 and happily married to an amazing man who doesn't like to read ( I forgive him for this).
And I'm not ashamed to say we are living with my parents at the moment due to some difficult time we were having on our own, but we LOVE being here with them. I'm a stay at home wife who loves to not only read but cook. I'm an animal lover, I have 3 outside dogs 5 inside dogs (4 are my parents but I claim them all) 1 outside cat , 1 inside cat, a pair of pot belly pigs, 4 goats, 1 mini goat, 6 chickens, 1 turtle and 3 goldfish.  I have a HUGE family that is spread out all over the place: FL, ID, CA, TX, TN, DC, Scotland and Germany just to name a few places.  I'm turning into a label reading health food freak who loves to go to the gym but doesn't get to go often enough. 


Okay enough about me lets talk about a few goals I have for this little blog. I have recently found several list of books that everyone should read and found that I haven't read hardly any and when I say hardly any I mean like 4 out of 100. So I am taking several list that I find and am going to read at least 20 from each list and talk about them. Plus I'm going to be reading new books that come out and review them. I also want to do a Author Highlight every week or month and talk about everything about them.


So that is pretty much it! 
I hope that there are some book worms out there who want to take this journey with :)