General Chat

My all time favourite has to be Pride & Prejudice,I first read it for my "O" level in 1969. Lost count of the number of times I've read it since and this thread has reminded me to dig it out because I don't think I have read it since the Millenium.

Thanks Joanna,

have made a note of this book and will check it out at the Library, next time I go.
Have already got The lollipop shoes and Constance on a list.
These are the books that GReaders are reading next,

Tess

I love My son My son by Howard Spring
The Manchester Man by Mrs Linius Banks
The Ragged Trouserd philanthropist forgotten who that is written by
but have read these books many times

Theresa-Tread-Anywhere - Tess:

If you like 'Katherine' you would probably enjoy 'Desiree' by Annemarie Selinko.
Again, a real historical character. She was the first love of Napoleon Bonaparte, but of course he went on to bigger and better things.
However, Desiree ended up being Queen of Sweden, so did quite well for herself too!
This has been republished quite recently so you should be able to find a copy. It was originally written in French in 1953.
I hope you can find it.

Joanna

Falling for a Dancer by Deirdre Purcell - nearly read it in one go, and the books she wrote which followed some of the characters - brilliant Irish writer

Thank you Maria, I have pm'd you back.
shirley.xx

Hoobity Boobity - I love Jonathon Livingston Seagull. You can still get it. I've PM'd you.

Maria xx

Robison Crusoe

To Kill a mocking bird

Down and out in London and Paris

I have read all of these twice.

The Secret Life of Bees - holiday read-

The Memory Keepers Daughter.

Can't remember just now who wrote the above, but i would love to read them both again, this time at home and in peace.lol!!

I agree Wy Flowers in the Attic and the sequel Petals in the Wind were good stories,but film not good!

I especially like to read clasics over again,but light reading......

Jane Eyre
Litlte Women
Robinson Crusoe
Treasure Island
Swiss Family Robinson

so many books,I'm greedy, I can't just say one sorry ;O)

would have to be 'Flowers in the attic, true Story, seen the film, but not has good

A book I would like to read again is Catch 22.

Books that made me cry,

The Incredible Journey. (about two dogs and a cat)

The Grapes of Wrath.

Hi Rosalyn,
Yes, I checked it out on Amazon and it certainly looked like it.
It's been over 40 years since I read it. So must have made an impression.
It was an old paper-back that I passed on to a friend.
However, I was sure that they adopted at least one African child. Report on Amozon says not.
One of my memories was of one of their younger children (and one of the last to be adopted), expecting tp turn white when she got older. Because when loooking at all her brothers and sisters, the older they were, the lighter they were!

Am I getting two books mixed up?

Tess

Theresa , that`s the book -
Ros xx

does sound funny doesn't it!!! sink 'em - no!!
Ted is in the glass case till just after Christmas - sob, sob

Jonathon Livingstone's seagull.
I read this when I was about 12-13 and have never found a copy of it since. sigh

I read and re-read Cold Comfort Farm and was then delighted to find it was a set book for A-level when I came to do it very late.Nobody else was very taken with it but I hated the other set book which was 1984.

Joanna,
I read Katherine by Anya Seton a long time ago.
Probably my favourite Historical Novel. Loads of fact with a little "fiction" to hold it all together.
I read it a few times when younger and am sure that I would still enjoy it now.

Tess

Rosalyn ... that sounds like a book I read many years age .. just could't remember what it was called.

I think that they were a Baptist couple (the husband possibly a minister).

I will check it out on Amazon.

Ann , that sounds so funny -what would you do to them --lol
Ros xx