Yes, but it's mostly because I love making lists and less because it's actually of any use. I frequently go off-list and don't feel bad if I don't get to a book I originally had on my list and end up reading other things.

I do find this sometimes helps me commit to actually reading some classics that are on my TBR but I'm a bit intimated by for whatever reason, though. The classic I'm determined to read this month is Great Expectations.

I'm a New Zealand ecologist and I thought it was a pretty interesting coincidence that there's an mystery author with the same name as a native tree.

But she's a NZ author! Strange I'd never heard of her, love the genre. Thanks for the tip-off.

The movie painted Forrest as basically infallible. Any mistake he made was solely because of his condition. In the book, he was a much more flawed character. His relationship with Jenny was basically a complete flip and I really don’t like the direction the movie took after reading the book.

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I read the book eons ago and enjoyed it so much I haven't seen the movie. Could not envision Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump. I understand they should be viewed as two separate stories, but still can't get there.

Nobody thinks the experience is identical.

Don't care about it. DNFed it.

Word of advice with thriftbooks, betterworldbooks, and other used online book stores, they generally put stickers that can be hard to take off without messing up the spine. Thriftbooks's stickers are easier compared to BBB in my experience.

When trying to remove them, try to use rubbing alcohol to weaken the adhesive, so you can pull them off cleaner.

Yes we have about the same rural/urban divide as the United States (my parents own a farm, I live in a city).

Check our election maps, the countryside is blue (conservative) and the cities are red (liberal) or yellow (NDP or very liberal).

Happy Cake Day! I'll have to read the other two before I can pass judgement but I'm inclined to agree.

I just have a pile of already purchased books, and when I'm done with one I just pick a new one out of the pile based pretty much solely on vibes. New books get added to the pile from time to time from a longer list of books I'm interested in which I keep in a note.

Also, Roseif you live outside of the urban areas do you think that affects what you think? Is there a city/rural devide?

Whats great about TGG is that it shows for all America's bluster about throwing off the old ways , most rich people are still inheritors of generational wealth, the exact thing America was trying to escape from.

Daisy Buchanan would be at home in a Jane Austen novel. She doesn't marry the American Dreamer, she marries the trust fund kid who never has to work a day in his life.

Time for Dorothy L. Sayers!

Of the "Big Four"—Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham—I think Marsh is the best overall writer. Christie's plots often relied on some absurdities and her characters weren't all that well-developed. That doesn't mean Christie was a bad writer, just that she wasn't as good as Marsh.

I think your mostly right. Although, on a positive note, women are now as eligible for the American dream, I think. Social media seems to be dominated by women "living the dream".

I listened to the first one and liked it well enough but not enough to go on to the others. The pre apocalypse concept made it interesting.

The American Dream, start at the bottom and work your way up to being a millionaire. Get the hot girl whom you don't really see as a person. Move to a coast (y'all love New York or California)

By the way, we consume a ton of your media and news (it gets boring up here). We're your slightly colder stalkers. We know everything about you.

I knew George Washington before I knew about John A. MacDonald (our first prime minister).

For the Canadians, what do think are the American ideals?

I think you are the second to feel embarrassed or cringy for Gatsby.

I use abebooks.com sometimes find better deals than thriftbooks, haven’t had a bad experience since I started using in 2013

I just generally dislike the pinkish colors typical of "rainbow frappuccino" book covers. They seem to scream, "Hey ladies [only], looka me!"

Creole in this era meant (most of the time) a white, British person born abroad. I don't think anything in the book indicates otherwise.

British people believed that being born abroad/living abroad could mess you up. But Bertha is probably white.

Charlotte Brontë's beef with the French is kind of hilarious though.

I'll have to take a look. My local used book store has had a copy tucked away on a shelf upstairs for almost a year and it always catches my eye

I'll check it out...thanks for the recommendation!!