[ebooktalk] Re: Answering introduction feedback.
- From: "Clare Gailans" <cgailans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:54:51 +0100
Hello Elaine,
How could I have forgotten the Secret Garden? It was one of the braille
books I owned as a child, and I practically knew it by heart. As an adult I
have never had a book collection in braille, apart from my music and Voldi's
chess, so I rarely re-read now unless a book group demands it or the spirit
otherwise really moves me. I forgot to mention one of my other book loves,
which is that over the last six years, since I discovered a list devoted to
them, I read a large number of school stories and other children's books,
after a lapse of more than 30 years. Some people find this odd, but the
internet has revealed a devoted following for such books, and I have begun
to collect them in print for scanning, though I now have a huge backlog. Our
older girl Geraldine is quite a reader and likes school stories, so I think
she will treasure them, and a few are now worth keeping for purely financial
reasons, though most I buy are very cheap. You can pay ridiculous money for
some authors. I think good children's books are very well written, much
better than many an adult best seller. Further to this subject, I finally
caught up with War Horse on a long train journey on Saturday. I think Pele
recommended it and, like me, she isn't a great animal lover, but I thought
it was wonderful and now want to go to see the play, which I think is still
on, isn't it? Clare
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