[ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:32:33 +0100
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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> (Much-discussed on this list.) Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel. Superlatives are
> unnecessary.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> My short long-list of books vying for position with HP, and I know this is
> cheating, are:
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> "My Dear I Wanted to Tell You", Louisa Young.
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> "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood", Rebecca Wells.
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> "The Robber Bride", Margaret Atwood. (I can re-read that without scaring
> myself half to death.)
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> Isn't it wonderful that we're all so different!
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> Elaine
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