[ebooktalk] Re: Books of My Life
- From: "Tar Barrels" <tar.barrels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 23:09:03 +0100
Clare, what a fantastically wide ranging set of titles. I wholeheartedly
approve of Pooh - one of my favourite characters, and still reading it when
I went to university! I'm afraid I'm not a Bronte fan, but can appreciate
why Jane Eyre appeals so much. I'm afraid I've not heard of your third
author, but it sounds interesting. However, the one I really fancy is the
Lyttelton-Hart Davis letters - they sound quite delicious. I read PP Read
years ago, and can't now understand why I didn't return to him. Thanks for
mentioning him. I'm pleased you're going to read Watershiip Down - wasn't
The Girl in the Swing his first adult novel following the exploits of the
rabbits? I seem to remember it being a bit saucy back then, but we're used
to different things now so it might not seem that bad now. As for the Woman
in White - definitely! There's something a bit sordid about Wilkie Collins,
but I find it attracts me to his books.
June
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I felt daunted by this, and wasn't going to do it, but the books have
gradually plopped into my mind, so they are probably the right ones.
1. A. A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh, or the House at Pooh Corner, or either of
the books of Pooh poetry. These were such a huge part of my childhood and my
daughters' childhood that one of them has to be there. I don't generally do
animals, but these are different, and really funny. You have all persuaded
me that I should read Watership Down too. I read a very compelling novel by
Adams called the Girl in the Swing, and have always meant to return to him.
Another children's possibility from my early childhood and motherhood was
the Secret Garden.
2. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre. I love Jane and adore Rochester, and this is
one of a very few books which I re-read from time to time, and one of very
few 19th-century books with which, I'm afraid, I don't struggle. Another is
the Woman in White.
3. 3. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter. This is really a trilogy, and
again is not likely reading for me, being historical. I have not yet felt
equal to Wolf Hall etc, but this one is mediaeval and really took hold of
me. Not only is the period beautifully drawn, but Kristin is a woman who
could live today, though the book was written in the thirties.
4. the Lyttelton-Hart-Davis Letters. These letters were exchanged over about
ten years between the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis and his old Eton
housemaster, George Lyttelton, father of Humphrey. I include them because
they are full of book interest and I can date a huge rise in the pitch of my
voraciousness as a reader from my reading of this series of six collections
of the letters from Calibre.
5. Piers Paul Read: Alive. I will have mentioned this as I read it earlier
this year. It concerns the survival and rescue of the members of a Uruguayan
Rugby team whose plane crashed in a remote part of the Andes. I don't often
do endurance books, but I'm eternally glad that we were given this book and
someone asked me to hurry it up the scanning pile. So I was wrong, not one
but two non-fiction. Clare
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