Monday, 11 May 2009
bedtime reading
is what I'm doing - working my way through Tractors again. Maybe this time I'll discover Vera's secret, I missed it first time round. (Lily)
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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)
9 comments:
yeah, i dropped the ball.
how 'bout we try again? with another novel about ukraine?
one dubbed
"everything is illuminated"
a *superior* story, very *flacid-to-*read, told in 3, maybe 4 dimensions...
i might even *rejoinder* this time...
Hah! I can tell you're an intelligent type. I've started so I'll finish but yes, you're right, we should get the ball rolling again. I need to put another book on the bookcase!
i am up for it! i was so excited to see a post on here!
Hey me too! I found a copy of Tractors on paperbackswap.com and got into it again on the plane yesterday. Cosmic:-)
Ooh spooky, its like being on a virtual time machine!
or... we could just go bowling.
lol, you just want to laugh at my big bum.
oh my! how presumptuous of you.
your bum is of no interest to me. large or small, as the case may be.
be careful who you're callin' a bum looker, m'dear!
or you'll soon be faced with my soliciteer.
(you know i'm just joshin' with you, right?
i'd love to see your bum.)
shut up, evil rick!
(ahahahahahahaha)
Rofl! My botticellian bum thanks you. Maybe I'll just wait until there's no-one around the photocopier........
Oh crikey, sorry Josephine!
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