This was an assigned reading book in an American Literature course in college. I dreaded taking this course, since I hated all the "Literature" I was forced to read in high school. Back then I thought the only books I would ever like were sci-fi or horror.
Surprise! I loved it! Who knew classic literature could include a ghost story?
I was so surprised to like a genre I'd previously held in disdain, that I guess I thought it would be the only one of it's kind I would like, and therefore I've held onto it ever since. Silly me; now holding onto to all the books I've ever liked is prohbitive. I'm going to re-read it once for grins, then release it.

I'll be reading "Daisy Miller" in preparation for reading the memoir, "Reading Lolita in Tehran", about a book club of women that met secretly in Iran to read forbidden works of Western literature such as "Daisy Miller", "Jane Eyre", and "The Great Gatsby".

Turn of the Screw is interesting for it's atmosphere and ambiguity, a ghost story that keeps one guessing.

I especially liked "Daisy Miller", a view of an American young lady in Europe, unfamiliar with the continental ways. We see her through the eyes of an American man who has become an established European, and it is a challenge to form our own opinion of Daisy when we have to filter all we know of her through the subjective views of another. Highly recommended.

Released on Monday, April 12, 2004 at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire USA.

Left on a magazine end-table between the waiting seats opposite the registration area.