[calibrebooks] Re: What are people reading
- From: Margaret Caisey <magscais@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "calibrebooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <calibrebooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 18:44:29 +0100
Oh, I love Shakespeare! He's so full of quotations!?!!
Margaret C (who is smiling!)
> On 7 Jul 2014, at 06:14 pm, Eve Smyth <fairlady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Liz, I remember having to read "Great Expectations" at age
> twelve, and really struggling. I like Dickens now, but wouldn't
> call him a favourite. Thomas Hardy didn't make much sense to me
> then either, but I gave him another go in my early twenties and
> since then have read nearly all his novels and many of his short
> stories. But I'm not sure I'll ever read Shakespeare, though
> I can enjoy watching his plays, with audio-description. Eve
>
> -Sent from my magic machine.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth Lovick" <liz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: <calibrebooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date sent: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 16:45:39 +0100
> Subject: [calibrebooks] Re: What are people reading
>
> I do think there are quite a few books and authors who are
> introduced to
> children at too young and age.
>
> I read anything and everything as a youngster, but was put off
> most of the
> Classics by having to read them and dissect them at too young an
> age. Some
> I have come to love (eg Jane Austin), some I have come to like
> (eg George
> Elliot, Anne Bronte) and others I still don't like (eg Charlotte
> Bronte)!
>
> I still can't read Dickens or Shakespeare!!
>
> Liz
>
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