[ebooktalk] Re: Going back to children's books.
- From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:01:21 +0100
Shell, Elaine introduced me to the "Green Knowe" books when I was visiting her.
We read "Children of Green Knowe" while I was over there, and later, she sent
me "The Chimneys Of Green Knowe", one of whose main characters is a blind girl.
She's one of the most plausible and least sentimental blind characters I've
come across in a book - she doesn't play the piano, she doesn't feel faces, and
she doesn't even get her sight back at the end of the book.
I somehow missed "The Secret Garden" in childhood, and, probably for that
reason, have never been enamoured of it since.
Trish.
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From: Shell
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 8:10 PM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Going back to children's books.
Hi Clare,
I have to admit to never having read or listened to any Winnie-the-Pooh. I
don't know how it passed me by as I've been an avid reader since I could lift a
book up on my own. I have lots of favorite children's books and the secret
garden was one of those. I'm afraid to go back and read them now, as I'm sure I
wouldn't like many. I remember being totally besotted with a series of books,
each one was called the something of Green Knowe, a different word for each
book, but all set in this place called Green Knowe. I thought they were the
most amazing books and another series about a boy who had a belt and in each
book he had to collect another magic stone to go on his belt. They may have
been set in Wales, or the boy might have been Welsh. I can't think what they
were called now or who the author was. I had a large set of Ladybird books
too, did anyone else read these? One was called Piggy Plays Truent and was
very special to me. I don't have any of them any more, which is really sad.
Shell.
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From: "Clare Gailans" <cgailans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:38 AM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Books of My Life
> 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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