tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post6762369880662256091..comments2024-02-25T10:06:20.056-08:00Comments on The Literary Pig: Five favourite books for World Book NightTracyFellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-33527792413199769472013-05-01T11:19:03.952-07:002013-05-01T11:19:03.952-07:00Thanks, Tracy! Yes, I know what you mean about the...Thanks, Tracy! Yes, I know what you mean about the longer HP books - they could have done with a good edit! Still love 'em though... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-10361585824920548172013-04-29T08:40:39.657-07:002013-04-29T08:40:39.657-07:00Thanks for stopping by Tracey. Funny but these com...Thanks for stopping by Tracey. Funny but these comments keep reminding me of books I'd loved but not thought of for the post. Your mention of Dahl instantly made me think of My Uncle Oswald - a ridiculously funny and naughty book. May have to dig that one out for a read again :) And who can top the wisom of Pooh?TracyFellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-39359334788599801542013-04-29T07:49:25.617-07:002013-04-29T07:49:25.617-07:00Love 'My Family and Other Animals'. I don&...Love 'My Family and Other Animals'. I don't know if I could pick 5 favourites... The Color Purple, Angela's Ashes, The Secret Life of Bees, all things Pooh and Dahl... when people ask if I have a favourite book, I never know which level to pitch at, because I read many different genres. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-33000368726731882272013-04-28T04:13:05.498-07:002013-04-28T04:13:05.498-07:00Thanks for dropping by Alice and what excellent ta...Thanks for dropping by Alice and what excellent taste you have! I'd completely forgotten about The Color Purple (read this back in uni). And I've just borrowed Never Let Me Go from local library (film made me cry buckets). Love Margaret Atwood but not yet read Alias Grace. Sounds like you are a true HP fan - I read the first book several times but felt some of the initial magic (sorry about that) disappeared in the later, much longer, books. TracyFellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-65730869333676804362013-04-27T14:21:07.305-07:002013-04-27T14:21:07.305-07:00Hi Tracy - great post. I love Pride and Prejudice ...Hi Tracy - great post. I love Pride and Prejudice and Could Atlas too :-) (haven't seen the film either). It's hard but I think my top five are:<br /><br />1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte<br />2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker<br />3. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro <br />4. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood<br />5. The Harry Potter books by JK Rowling (bit embarassed about this one and don't know if I'm even allowed a whole series, but I've read them heaps of times, love the films and have been on the studio tour so I guess they should be on my list!) <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-15806378178614027242013-04-24T08:14:38.881-07:002013-04-24T08:14:38.881-07:00Hmm you've given LitPig an idea for a future p...Hmm you've given LitPig an idea for a future post with your favourite cakes...<br /><br />Well done Patsy for getting out and supporting WBN. Sadly, I didn't make it out this year.TracyFellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-4656187921826614842013-04-24T08:13:15.695-07:002013-04-24T08:13:15.695-07:00Talked about this topic last night with hubby and ...Talked about this topic last night with hubby and he reminded about To Kill a Mockingbird and Rebecca, both of which could have been on my list. Have yet to try George Eliot. Agree Susan there are too many to list!TracyFellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-88848042839325361742013-04-24T08:11:39.141-07:002013-04-24T08:11:39.141-07:00Well done on the Guardian piece. This really takes...Well done on the Guardian piece. This really takes me back to the book and all the wonderful memories it evokes. I always wanted to visit the Strawberry villa. And so longed to have met Achilles the tortoise and fed him his beloved strawberries.<br />Have thought of visiting Corfu but always worried the modern island would be nothing like Durrell's paradise of the 1940s.TracyFellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-38286786418812897462013-04-24T08:09:24.549-07:002013-04-24T08:09:24.549-07:00I've read the Faulks trilogy which includes Bi...I've read the Faulks trilogy which includes Birdsong, but not read the one you mentioned so another for my to-read list. Thanks Wendy :)TracyFellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-1234666103882603672013-04-23T13:06:15.105-07:002013-04-23T13:06:15.105-07:00I don't have favourite books - it would be a b...I don't have favourite books - it would be a bit like trying to list my favourite cakes (All except Battenburg and banana )<br /><br />The local bookshop had a late opening with nibbles for WBN and their 80th anniversary so I went along. Hubby and I each got a different free book.Patsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12263765378083045973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-69965460008714885912013-04-23T11:05:22.017-07:002013-04-23T11:05:22.017-07:00Good choices Tracy, mine would be.....
Wind in th...Good choices Tracy, mine would be.....<br /><br />Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Graham<br />To kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee.<br />Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain.<br />Rebecca. Daphne du Maurier.<br />Middlemarch. George Eliot.<br /><br />There are so many more books I love like all the P.G. Wodehouse, and tons and tons more. Those on the list are favorites. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-44729202108430248242013-04-23T10:33:34.800-07:002013-04-23T10:33:34.800-07:00Love all your choices Tracy, and have read all of ...Love all your choices Tracy, and have read all of them more than once - except Cloud Atlas. Jane Eyre and The Little Prince would be in my top 5.<br /><br />This is my piece that was published in The Guardian about My Family, in a feature that showcased readers' favourite travel books: <br /><br />"I have been inspired by many wonderful travel books, but there is a very special one that I return to time after time. At the tender age of twelve I read My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, and it made me yearn to travel to Corfu. I could smell the heady scent of the flowers, hear the relentless chatter of the cicadas, and see the fireflies lighting up the pine-scented night. I wanted to walk through shady olive groves, see shiny black beetles as fat as thumbs, and swim alongside sea cucumbers in clear turquoise waters. Durrell’s childhood, his eccentric family, and their strawberry-coloured villa, completely captivated me. Two years later I travelled to Corfu with my parents and it was everything I’d hoped it would be."<br /><br />Miss McFishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01411146378505200757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-66628349836008237472013-04-23T10:30:37.518-07:002013-04-23T10:30:37.518-07:00I definitely agree with Pride and Prejudice and as...I definitely agree with Pride and Prejudice and as we stayed in Kalami Bay on Corfu (where Gerald Durrel wrote My Family and Other Amimals...) last year, I meant to re-read it but didn't. I would add Edgleby by Sebastian Faulks - although it's not to everyone's taste.Wendy's Writinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06960941625432714363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-21194002630520129702013-04-23T09:39:20.043-07:002013-04-23T09:39:20.043-07:00I've only read Far from the madding crowd and ...I've only read Far from the madding crowd and Rebecca. Actually Rebecca could have made the list as I've re-read it several times and always takes me back to the West Country. Will have to check out 'A fine balance'.TracyFellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-29257858786639084922013-04-23T09:37:34.781-07:002013-04-23T09:37:34.781-07:00Shows how we all have different tastes Vikki :) Al...Shows how we all have different tastes Vikki :) Also I think a lot of favourites come from childhood reads and now I don't have enough time to read a book once let alone over and over again (sigh)...TracyFellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-44882278243526289302013-04-23T09:29:32.936-07:002013-04-23T09:29:32.936-07:00I've read all but Hitchhiker. I always find it...I've read all but Hitchhiker. I always find it difficult to think of my favourites because there are loads and I like them in different ways. However, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is probably my number 1. by Followed Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne,Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and about a hundred others!I know that's cheating.Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04631254646368974136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-34857594627434588802013-04-23T09:01:35.698-07:002013-04-23T09:01:35.698-07:00Out of those 5 I'm ashamed to say I've onl...Out of those 5 I'm ashamed to say I've only read Black Beauty, and that was MANY years ago lol<br /><br />Great list honey!<br /><br />xxVikki Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02694323337495411373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-20654448037750186912013-04-23T08:30:10.826-07:002013-04-23T08:30:10.826-07:00Thanks Edith. I had sort of forgotten poor Gerald ...Thanks Edith. I had sort of forgotten poor Gerald as he was an author I read mainly in my teens. Hubby bought me a complete collection of his Corfu tales and I may take that out into the garden shortly. :)TracyFellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-37864410494150581612013-04-23T08:28:31.704-07:002013-04-23T08:28:31.704-07:00Wuthering Heights almost made it onto the list as ...Wuthering Heights almost made it onto the list as I've read it several times, but I didn't find it the easiest of novels to read. Hope you enjoy Cloud Atlas.TracyFellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10224475173136774530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-12460204463733369962013-04-23T08:13:18.723-07:002013-04-23T08:13:18.723-07:00Oh what a great selection of novels Tracy! I love ...Oh what a great selection of novels Tracy! I love your self-imposed stipulation that you must have read the novel in question more than once - definitely a marker of greatness or, at the very least, readability! :)<br />I too adore Pride and Prejudice, and if this sounds a little over the top, consider that I re-read it regularly and still enjoy it as if for the very first time! <br />Thank you too for reminding me of Gerald Durrell's book which opened up a whole world of naturalism to me at a time when I was terrified of spiders, which only goes to prove the inherent power of words! [Maybe I should re-read it instead of hoovering the poor little unfortunates up each time one of my daughters discovers one on her bedroom wall!!]<br />Great post! Edith xxx<br />P.S. Thanks for the link back. BTW your post proves the delights of delayed gratification!! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323608100391663677.post-87327343470547394282013-04-23T08:05:10.524-07:002013-04-23T08:05:10.524-07:00Excellent choices. I'd forgotten all about Ger...Excellent choices. I'd forgotten all about Gerald Durrell. Must dig it out and have another look. My guilty pleasure is Wuthering Heights. I'm just about to read Cloud Atlas, which my son bought me for Christmas and has finally reached the top of my 'waiting to be read' pile. Julia Thorleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00485301135194085398noreply@blogger.com