D.H. Lawrence

I felt the need to mark this occasion with a post at my newly-resurected-though-likely-not-widely-read-at-this-point-blog. I stopped by the bookstore today and picked up a few books I thought looked interesting. Wanna know what they were (though this activity is not the reason for this blog, just part of the story)?
1. American Literature to 1900 ( an anthology)
2.Herman Melville- Selected Tales and Poems
3.Twentieth Century English Literature
4. Moby Dick
5. This is the one I'm excited about- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence.

Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence remains one of my favorite books. A lot of people I have talked to about this book have referenced it as a book they read and were excited about when they were, say, 16 or 17. This knowledge did nothing to diminish my love of this book. Katrina ate up most of my belongings in 2005 and I think that is where my copy of this book landed, at the bottom of The Gulf of Mexico. The experience of reading that book was so moving to me because I still, to this day, enjoy owning a book I have no intention of relinquishing and which I deface by underlining the passage that speak to me. My copy of Women in Love was thoroughly defaced- I love the way D.H. wrote. So, a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover is sitting on the shelf at the store and I figured, why not? Maybe it's as good as the other one I read. Lo and behold, when I got this book home, someone had underlined all their meaningful passages but the interesting part is that they underlined throughout the whole book! In the whole time I owned the bookstore, I never found a copy of any book that was underlined all the way through. It seems that most other defacers just peter out before the book is over- I look at defaced books specifically to see if they are thoroughly underlined or just a partial job, as is usually the case. Therefore , to have learned that someone out there has enjoyed D.H Lawrence, not just as much as I, but in the same way I did is wild! Maybe only another book nut would 'get' this, but it meant a lot to me, enough to share with the world via the World Wide Web. Hope it didn't drag on too much and turn you off to the whole English Major Blog! :)
Have a great day!