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No matter how much I read, there's always a bigger list of things that I should have read. *sigh*

I didn't quite like The Mermaid Chair as much as I liked The Secret Life of Bees. Probably because it didn't have bees in it. :> It was a slower book, a kind of romance, a lot of mid-life crises and whatnot. The book flips back and forth between two POV's, switching about every chapter or so, except for one chapter that's done from someone else's POV. I can see that there is stuff she wanted to get in there that couldn't be done from the other two, but it's still jarring. It's still a good book, just not my thing. I just don't get into chick lit that much.

Things you may rely upon to be in anything by Wodehouse: golf, love at first sight, amusing commentary, and the guy gets the girl in the last chapter or so. And probably at least a mention of Scots, usually in relation to golf. I've read one thing that had more baseball, or at least longing for baseball, than golf, but really he has this *thing* for golf. Even the lovesick, forlorn guy pining for the girl will still go out and play golf and do it well.

Nekropolis by Maureen F. McHugh
Strawberry Acres by Grace S. Richmond
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Damsel in Distress by P.G. Wodehouse
Prester John by John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Good Children by Kate Wilhelm
A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katherine Green
Freezer Burn by Landsdale
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Love Among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse
Picadilly Jim by P.G. Wodehouse
The Labrynth by Catherynne M. Valente
Five Quarts: A Personal and Natuaral History of Blood by Bill Hayes
Carmilla by LeFanu
The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Bound to Rise by Horatio Algers
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Tragedy of Pudd'NHead Wilson by Mark Twain
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Reef by Edith Wharton
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
The Witches of Eastwick by Updike
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
A Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Moll Flanders by DeFoe
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
The Return of Tarzan by E. R. Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes by E. R. Burroughs
The Atrocity Archives by Stross
When the Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells
Forests of the Heart by deLint
An Old Fashioned Girl by Alcott
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Maggie, Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
Gather, Darkness! by Fritz Leiber
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Room with a View by E.M. Forester
Helliconia Summer by Aldiss
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Murder of Angels by Caitlin Kiernan
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Divided by Katie Waitman