[ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 22:24:00 +0100
Funnily enough, elaine, I started talking during the Read On recording about
the books I'd left out and the Mantel Cromwell series was the one I mentioned.
On 29 Jun 2013, at 15:32, Shell wrote:
> Hi Elaine,
> Bleak House is a Dickens I haven't got round to yet, but wanted to read for
> ages. I think I will push it up the list and read it now. I somehow always
> feel a bit daunted when starting one of his books. I originally had The Old
> Curiosity Shop in my top list, but I thought that it was so many years since
> I've read it that I should possibly read it again before leaving it in there.
> I have to agree with Watership Down. Such a fabulous book.
> Louisa Young is also a brilliant writer, I found the book quite hard to read
> but am so glad I did so. What is the Rebecca Wells about, I don't know that
> one.
> Shell.
>
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> From: "Elaine Harris (Rivendell)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 1:51 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
>
> > Okay, my list as of today; some of it will no doubt change as time passes
> > and more books are accumulated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Watership Down. Richard Adams. Read it, bought it and read it again. Poetic
> > descriptive prose; characterisation, plot, humour. The best thing he has
> > ever written.
> >
> >
> >
> > Goodnight Mister Tom. Michelle Magorian. (Same reading pattern as above.)
> > re-read it at least once a year; still makes me laugh and cry. Challenges
> > assumptions on just about everything, including assumptions and, like the
> > best so-called children's books, can be read on many levels.
> >
> >
> >
> > (Much-discussed on this list.) Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel. Superlatives are
> > unnecessary.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bleak House. Charles Dickens. My favourite of all his writing. Should I ever
> > be called upon to do a public reading of his work - apart from the excerpt
> > from A Christmas carol" read to a school gathering last December - it would
> > be the opening chapter of this book. Evocative, cynical, breathtaking.
> >
> > This is where it gets difficult so I will add a series of fifth options and
> > hope I never get marooned on the proverbial desert island.
> >
> >
> >
> > If it was a Harry Potter, it would either be HP and the Goblet of Fire or HP
> > and the Deathly Hallows. My two favourites. They are the two I am likely to
> > re-read most often.
> >
> >
> >
> > My short long-list of books vying for position with HP, and I know this is
> > cheating, are:
> >
> >
> >
> > "My Dear I Wanted to Tell You", Louisa Young.
> >
> >
> >
> > "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood", Rebecca Wells.
> >
> >
> >
> > "The Robber Bride", Margaret Atwood. (I can re-read that without scaring
> > myself half to death.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Isn't it wonderful that we're all so different!
> >
> >
> >
> > Elaine
> >
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