[ebooktalk] Re: "South Riding"
- From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 23:44:13 +0100
I dare you, Shell. Audible have an excellent reading by Carole Boyd.
Trish.
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From: Shell
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:43 PM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Desert Island Books
I think you and Trish have persuaded me to try South Riding. It's not a book
I have thought about reading before.
I love Thomas Hardy, but would like to read more. Jude The Obscure was the
first text to speach book I ever read, because I found it free on a website
when I was learning to use the computer. I wouldn't have tried Hardy if it
hadn't been the only book I came across, so I'm so glad to have been forced to
try him. This is still my favorite of his that I've read so far.
I either love or loath Nevil Shute, but A Town like Alice is one of the ones
I really enjoyed. Beyond The Black Stump was my most loved, or possibly The
Pied Piper. I remember one called something like In The Wet, which I really
didn't get along with.
I did enjoy the Cone Gatherers too and have thought about it and the 2
brothers often since we read it.
Shell.
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From: "Pele West" <pele.west@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 5:56 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Desert Island Books
> Hi Everyone
>
> I thought I would change the subject line as we had had lots of messages
> all going different ways.
>
> I have been thinking of my five favourite books today. It might be
> different tomorrow, but here goes. Actually, people on the list will
> already know about some of them. These are books that have stayed with
> me from the time I either first read them or heard them on the radio. I
> have put them in alphabetical order.
>
> "The Cone Gatherers" by Robert Jenkins. I heard this as a play on Radio
> 4, then a Book at Bedtime, and then I managed to get the book. It is
> about two brothers sent to work on a Scottish estate in the Second World
> War. One of the brothers is severely disabled, and it is about the way
> they are treated. When I was on this list before I chose this book for
> everyone to read.
>
> "Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy. I came late to Thomas
> Hardy, but I really love his writing now. This was the first unabbridged
> book I listened to on cassette, beautifully read by Stephen Thorne. I
> love the descriptions of agricultural life in Victorian times.
>
> "South Riding" by Winifred Holtby. Trish has already mentioned this one,
> about life in Yorkshire in the 1930s. I heard it on Book at Bedtime,
> then a radio dramatisation in the 1970s and I have read the book a
> number of times. When my brother was doing Economics A Level they were
> given it as background reading. I love the descriptions of life at that
> time.
>
> "Strumpet City" by James Plunkett. This is about life in Dublin at the
> time of the Dublin Lockout in 1913. I love the way it was written and
> was quite surprised when I found it was written in the 1960s.
>
> "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute. I first read this when I lived in
> Singapore, so the parts about Malaya struck a chord with me. While I was
> reading it we went camping on a small island off the east coast of
> Malaysia, and I had to take a volume with me to read. I have read it
> many times since and it still works for me.
>
> Sorry, this message is a bit long.
>
>
> --
> Pele West <pele.west@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
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