Casey’s Comments (group member since Feb 23, 2012)

Casey’s comments from the The Dusty Bookshelf group.

The strangest bookmarks I've used are plane tickets. I read A Game of Thrones using a boarding pass from Chicago to San Francisco to mark my place.

I mostly use index cards; I like that I can write notes on them!

Hayley wrote: "April wrote: "Anyone reading Emma? It's the only Austen on my DBC shelf:) . . .although I've got many more on my TBR list (but since I enjoy them, I didn't think I'd have trouble with those, so....."

I'll be reading Emma; it's been on my shelf forever and has gotten pretty dusty. Plus, I didn't know when I would be able to get around to it, so April seems like a good time to pick it up.

I'm counting only books on my physical bookshelf, that I've been meaning to read but haven't. Most of them I just had to have, but when I finally got them I figured I'd get to them "later." A few I've had for years, some I got fairly recently. All of them were purchased before the beginning of the year though. I don't want to count my virtual TBR pile, because I own almost 100 books that I just haven't gotten around to yet.

Thalia wrote: "Casey, you'll have to let me know if you like Dorian Gray! When I wrote my review for it last year, I couldn't put my finger on why, but I just loved it so much! (:

You guys have such great list..."

I'll definitely leave some feedback on it! I have read The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as An Ideal Husband, so I have a good feeling about it!

Sara wrote: "April wrote: "Maybe we can read Catch 22 as a buddy read. I wouldn't be able to pick it up until first week of April at the earliest, but that guy has been on my shelf since I got it for Christmas..."

I'd love to do Catch 22 as a buddy read as well! I can't wait to read it, especially if others are reading along as well!

Hi everyone! I have far too many books on my shelf that need to be read, so I'm glad to have found this group. I'm hoping to read (at least) the following 20 books from my own grungy shelf:

Jane Austen - Emma
Miguel De Cervantes - Don Quixote
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Richard P. Feynman - Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway - Old Man & the Sea
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
Thomas S. Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Erik Larson - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray: Authoritative Texts Backgrounds Reviews and Reactions Criticism
Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present