Lily's virtual book club: Merry Christmas everyone! team blog

When I was young, I loved fantastical books, like The Water Babies and folk tales from different countries (particularly one from China that told the story of brothers with magical powers). As I grew older it was action and excitement that caught my imagination, probably due to dad's reading me bedtime stories like Treasure Island. I devoured books by Rider Haggard and have fond memories of a jungle adventure called Trader Horn and a medieval saga called The Cloister and the Hearth. Then I moved on to epic authors like Dickens, Hugo and Zola. I read the entire Chronicles of Narnia to my children and encouraged them to read for pleasure. I was enthralled by T H White's The Once and Future King and later discovered Mervyn Peake and fell in love with his extraordinary imagination and prose, the strange and disturbing world of Gormenghast and the delightful Mr Pye. Then five years as a mature student taught me how to skim books to find information for essays - it all but destroyed my ability to read and digest a novel at a leisurely pace. In time I was able to read 'normally' again and in recent years I've enjoyed Wild Swans, Middlesex, Captain Corelli's Mandolin and The Time Traveller's Wife. I'm hoping this is just the beginning.... (Lily)

Lily's virtual book club

Friday 26 December 2008

Merry Christmas everyone!
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