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Chit-Chat » what do you think is the ideal age to get married? : ) » I like that time span
lilygirl 18 yrs ago
I want to see the world first or find someone that would want to travel with me. But if I turn out to be mid-30s before I find The One - so be it. There are too many things to do for me to pine away in the mean time.
Chit-Chat » A sad thought » I'm thinking of all the great books out there and perhaps I will die first.
lilygirl 18 yrs ago
Then again some of those books may turn out to be mediocre...
Chit-Chat » Answer a question, ask a question » Under the Tuscan Sun. How obsessively do you use spellcheck?
lilygirl 18 yrs ago | 5 replies
or How many browsers do you use while surfing BookCrossing?
Fun and Games » What's the first line of the closest book? » Half-way down a by-street of one of our New England towns
lilygirl 18 yrs ago
stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Book Talk » Wuthering Heights: any reason why I should keep reading? » Never been a big fan of the Bronte sisters
lilygirl 18 yrs ago
I read Wuthering Heights because my English teacher in highschool insisted that Bronte's Heathcliff was better than Austin's Darcy. Maybe I missed the point of the book because of that prejudice but then again, I hated …
Book Talk » I can't remember the title! » I think it was published more recently
lilygirl 18 yrs ago
Maybe I'll try visiting my old elementary school and see if the book is still sitting on display in the same spot it was 10 years ago... haha
Book Talk » I can't remember the title! » I'll check out that title just in case
lilygirl 18 yrs ago | 1 replies
I'm pretty sure that it was a leg brace because she had crutches, but the more I think about it I realize that it could have been a back brace too. How did everything go with your scoliosis? My friend had to have a rod…
Book Talk » I can't remember the title!
lilygirl 18 yrs ago | 9 replies
I need help finding a book that I read a long time ago. Unfortunately, the only thing that I can remember is that the main character is a girl who has to have a brace on her leg. She's really embarrassed to go to schoo…
Book Talk » Notecards: do you use them? If yes- what for? » New words that I find while reading
lilygirl 18 yrs ago
I don't like to stop and pull out the dictionary while I'm reading, so I'll print the word at the top and then the sentance in which it was used. After I finish reading the book, I'll fill out their definitions. The wor…
Book Talk » Recommended reading for children » These are all great books!!!
lilygirl 18 yrs ago
I'm starting to wish that I had kept a list of all the books I read when I was younger. My younger sister keeps asking me if she's read more books than I have, but I never started keeping a tally. Sometimes a scene fro…
Book Talk » Non-reading children » Neither of my parents read
lilygirl 18 yrs ago | 1 replies
and only a few of my siblings like to read. With the ones who say they don't like it, I dig up different kinds of books that might interest them and then talk about the book when they're around. If they take the bait an…

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