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Did you finish Gone with the Wind? Did you like it? I read it years ago and remember it as one of those books you can't put down, even though you know the author is manipulating you, shamelessly.

Not a sin exactly, more like a context-sensitive misdemeanor. It is ok (but not recommended) to dog ear your own book, but thou shalt not molest thy neighbor's book or thy partner's book or the public library's book. Sort of like correcting your own child with a gentle pat on the backside, but...

I don't find too much sugar coating in Bronte and Dickens. Jane Eyre is rejected by her aunt and sent to a miserable school where she is starved and her best friend dies. She is menaced by a mad women in the attic and almost betrayed into a bigamous marriage. Not too sweet! And Dickens...

Alice in Wonderland - over and over and over Little Women - better than you think E. B. White: Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web. The White books were not part of my childhood, but I read them with my own children and then reverse adopted them back into my childhood.

It may not be the way you think. Maybe the squirrels are being directed by retroviruses which have taken over their nervous systems. The plot is to pass the viruses along to US. In some cases, it may already have happened.

Consider The Life of Pi - boy and tiger on small boat in the vast Pacific.

So glad you asked! Usonia, New York: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality Moral MInds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong These are...

You have a good list, but don't plan to spend it all. Part of the fun of a bookstore gift card is just browsing around in the store with "money" in your pocket. You are sure to see something you had not thought of.

I read it - or perhaps it was an abridged version - in junior high school. As I remember it, the women in the book are portrayed as ideals, but they struck me as being very passive and helpless. Do this still read this one in school?

I have a son and a daughter. My daughter, from the time when she received basic instruction, read all the time (and still does). My son, although he enjoyed stories, was too active. He preferred the out of doors and building stuff. Only in his last years of high school did he begin reading for...

I think of my book transactions as recycling. The only books I keep are old favorites, reference books and ones that I am using for courses. My books mostly come from the library book sales or the Good Will. Spending $15-20, I usually come away with 10 or 12 books, including some interesting...

94 so far, so should end with about 100. I can usually read 2 books a week, sometimes more. This was the year I got bogged down in Proust. Next year I'm giving him up in the interests of literature.

He was a political malcontent at a time when the Czech government wasn't having any of that. Later, of course, he ended up as president. Somewhere along the way he wrote a play in which the principal character is a dissident who has been in prison and is afraid of returning there. I saw the...

Why is everyone so crabby here? The movie I have seen most recently is The Darjeeling Limited, which got great praise for subtlety by one reviewer but didn't amaze me. You are like the three brothers, always sniping at one another, no one is ever satisfied. When they finally track down the...

The Greek historical novels by Mary Renault have a great sense of place: The Last of the Wine - wonderful on Athens The King Must Die - Eleusis, Athens, Crete The Fire Next Time - Macedonia If you like poetry, try some of Byron's romantic poems about Greece.

I'm in my 70s and reading more than ever. It's one of the blessing of retirement as long as your eyes hold up.

I think the card should be one of those holographic images which change depending on your angle. Then one card could cover multiple offenses, and the crime would be in the eye of the beholder.

I join you in enjoying Ed McBain and John Macdonald. At one time I tried to collect all the Travis McGee books and read them in order. Have you tried any of the following? P. D. James Dorothy Sayers Tony Hillerman

The Will to Believe and other essays by William James. Although the collection is entitled The Will to Believe, that is only the first of about 15 essays on such subjects and determinism and "the moral philosopher."

Pogue has a mostly favorable view in the Times, yesterday I think. Can you put paper markers or post-its on the pages so you can quickly go back?