I can see this is going to be a long process, but I'm determined to continue reviewing the books I've already read to make sure I remember them all! The next three books I read last spring:

The Jungle Book - Mowgli - man child in the wild - raised by wolves - mother, father, brother wolves - Baloo the bear - Bagheera the panther - Shere Khan the bengal tiger - wants to kill Mowgli - Mowgli kidnapped by monkeys after he gets a little arrogant and disobeys Bagheera and Baloo - Chil the kite and Kaa the python help get him back - "Now, said Bagheera, jump on my back, Little Brother, and we will go home." One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterwards. - Mowgli bests Shere Kahn - Mowgli goes to live back in the village with a family - Shere Khan still wants to kill Mowgli - more stories than just Mowgli - white seals look for a new home - Rikki Tikki Tavi the mongoose saves a family from deadly cobras - Toomai the boy who wants to be an elephant trainer - Toomai sees the elephants "dance" - unique, lovely jungle stories

Beyond the Horizon - The Mayo family - Mom, Dad, Andrew, Robert - lovely farm and cottage - clean, flowing, homemade curtains - Andrew and Robert close brothers - Robert sickly, loves to read books, longs to travel the world - Andrew strong, loves to work the family farm and wants to marry sweetheart Ruth and raise family there - Robert and Andrew both love Ruth - Robert prepares to leave on trip around the world sailing with Uncle Dick - the night before, Ruth confesses to Andrew that Robert is truly the one she loves and she doesn't want him to leave - Andrew tells Robert this and he decides to stay - Andrew magnanimously gives up Ruth and goes on the sailing trip around the world, leaving Robert to work the farm and be happy with Ruth - Father, James Mayo, unexpectedly dies - Robert knows little about farming - farm falls into poverty - dingy, dirty curtains with holes, furniture in disrepair - Ruth and Robert have little girl, Mary - Ruth confesses to Robert that she really loved Andrew after all - Robert in despair and getting sicklier (tuberculosis) - light of Robert's life, little Mary, dies - Robert soon on his own deathbed - Ruth sends for Andrew to come home quickly - Andrew arrives before Robert dies - Ruth tells Andrew that she told Robert that she really loves Andrew - Robert is distraught - he no longer loves Ruth and his brother is dying thinking his own wife doesn't love him - Andrew insists that Ruth go in there and tell Robert she truly loves him, not Andrew - she's too late, Robert has died - Andrew cries out to Ruth, "He's gone and you never told him!  You never told him!" - heartbreakingly sad story all around - Ruth...the ruin of two brothers.

Jane Eyre - Loved this book! - Young Jane Eyre, ten years old, an orphan - goes to live with horrible, abusive aunt, Sarah Reed, and spoiled, selfish cousins, John, Eliza, Georgiana - treated like a servant - excluded from the family - one day defends herself when John picks on her - she is blamed - locked in the scary "red room" where her uncle (mother's brother, Sarah's husband) died - sees awful visions that scare her to death - Jane distraught - Mr. Lloyd, family doctor, recommends it would be good for all if Jane is sent to Lowood School for Girls - before she leaves, she stands up to Aunt Sarah in front of kindly Mr. Lloyd, calling out her physical and emotional abuse, she tells her aunt she'll never call her aunt again - "I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty."  - "How dare you affirm that, Jane Eyre?" - "How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. I shall remember how you thrust me back---roughly and violently thrust me back---into the red-room, and locked me up there, to my dying day, though I was in agony, though I cried out, while suffocating with distress, 'Have mercy! Have mercy, Aunt Reed!' And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me---knocked me down for nothing. I will tell anybody who asks me questions this exact tale. People think you a good woman, but you are bad, hard-hearted. You are deceitful!" - Lowood a charity school - poor conditions at the school, rationed food, little heat, threadbare clothes - head of school, Mr. Brocklehurst, has been warned by Sarah Reed that Jane is deceitful - Mr. Brocklehurst ridicules Jane and labels her a liar to the whole school - only Jane's friend, Helen Burns, and loving teacher, Miss Temple, defend her - Miss Temple writes to Mr. Lloyd, a school backer, who writes a letter to Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane's defense, saying that it's Sarah Reed who is the evil one, not Jane - Jane spends hours with Helen who teaches her not to hate those who abuse her, but to love God - Jane enjoys having afternoons treats and tea with the nurturing Miss Temple - Jane is devastated when her best friend, Helen, dies from consumption in her arms - Mr. Brocklehurst finally outed by school benefactors who see he has not been honest and not taken care of the pupils properly - new building built, conditions improve, Jane stays on as student and two more years as a teacher herself! - Jane puts out feelers to become a private governess - goes to work at Thornfield Hall teaching Adele, the young French ward of the master of the house, Edward Rochester, who is away - on an icy night, Jane goes for a walk - rider on horse advancing quickly doesn't see her and is thrown from his horse trying to avoid her - Jane helps him to the house - he is the master of the house, Edward Rochester! - though Jane is shy and reserved around Edward, she is also honest and speaks her mind when asked - Edward finds her refreshing and unafraid of him - Jane and Edward spend many hours together - I love how Jane expresses herself, in thoughts and in words! - Jane and Edward slowly but surely fall in love - "He made me love him without looking at me." - eerie things start happening in the manor - wicked, wild laughter - spontaneous fire - Rochester starts acting distant from Jane - Jane is confused and heartbroken - Jane's Aunt Sarah falls ill and calls for her to come and help her - Jane goes and stays for a month helping her aunt when her own children won't - Sarah Reed admits that she's had a letter from Jane's paternal uncle, Mr. John Eyre - he wanted Jane to come live with him - Mrs. Reed told him Jane was dead so Jane wouldn't have anything good in her life, certainly not family - Aunt Sarah dies - meanwhile, Edward Rochester has become engaged to another woman, someone in his own "class" - Jane returns to Thornfield - Edward admits that he loves Jane and calls off his wedding and proposes to Jane - Jane is elated and plans her wedding - a mysterious ghost-like woman sneaks into Jane's room and rips up her wedding veil - Edward insists it's a jealous servant - Edward rushes Jane to their wedding, but it does not go off without a hitch - a lawyer and a family friend, Mr. Mason, arrive to exclaim that Edward Rochester is already married to Mr. Mason's sister, Bertha - Edward admits that he married Bertha years ago, but was lied to about her mental condition - Bertha's father tricked Edward into marrying her for the money, and Bertha soon started descending into madness - she's been locked up for years in a wing of the manor - Rochester begs Jane to go away with him and live as man and wife anyway - Jane will not compromise her values no matter how much she loves Edward - she leaves in the middle of the night - distraught, Jane accidentally leaves her possessions on the stage coach, and wanders the moors in poverty - discovered on their doorstep at death's door by sisters Mary and Diana Rivers - their brother is the local preacher, St. John Rivers - Jane thinks of the Rivers sisters as her own sisters, but St. John is more distant - Jane mentions she is the niece of John Eyre - St. John gasps - he knows John Eyre, who has recently died, in fact, John Eyre is the uncle of St. John, Mary and Diana as well - John Eyre has left his entire rich estate to Jane - Jane says she will share the money equally with her new found cousins - St. John wants to marry Jane, and she nearly says yes, until she starts hearing Edward Rochester's voice in her head - she hurries to Thornfield Hall, which has been burned to the ground by crazy Bertha - Edward was blinded and left without one hand in the fire - Bertha has committed suicide - Rochester withdraws from Jane, thinking she'll find him repulsive - Jane assures him of her love - Edward proposes once again and Edward and Jane finally marry! - By the time they have son, Edward has recovered enough of his eyesight to see his son!