oh, you lucky person... how lovely 

 

As a boy I remember my Dad b ringing home a dog eared copy of an Isaac Asimov book, I can't be sure which one, but I think it was I Robot.

Jude the obscure -Thomas Hardy

yes I agree

 

She bought me hours and hours and HOURS of enjoyment as a child. She should be up there with the heavyweights in my opinion  

 

This thread is moving too quick for me to respond 

 

Would seem we have too many book lovers here (that's a good thing).

 

 

I think the best thing is for the thread to organically develop as they usually do, the main thing people talking about books and maybe picking up a few recommendations.

 

Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy

To kill a Mockingbird

Crimea

Umm.....there's more to come

The Go -between

Another thing to add to my bucket list   Re read Blyton's books 

Although I never actually *found * her until I was about 20...

Oooo yes EFFT..... To kill a Mockingbird has got to be in there

 

Thanks, although she is a little way along the family tree, my mother met her.

 

me too 

..my namesake was a super sleuth 

Are you a Hardy fan Ros? I've never really taken to his books.... or the films..... I don't know why...

 

Yep, tis true. Along my maternal side.

Off the top of my head (I will edit again and again I'm sure)

 

Birdsong

A Star Called Henry

The God of Small Things

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

 

 

A real random book I read as a teenager and simply adored called: Fifteen.

 

I know I'll have many, many more that'll pop into my head but that'll do for now.

 

That made me laugh so much!  

 

I did take the opportunity to re-read quite a few of her books when Duds was small, and still up for a bed time story.  

 

aww, I don't know if I should be extremely jealous or extremely glad for your mum... I shall have to ponder 

I loved Jude the Obscure

Out with it you! 

 

Last year I bought a whole box set to read as I had never read them all.

Oooooooooooooh I just posted this before I saw your post.

LOL... I was too busy reading the *heavyweights* when I was young.....but a good friend leant me one of the school series, can't remember why.... and I was hooked... I had to read all of them

Brideshead revisited - Waugh

Swallows and Amazons - Ransome

A Town like Alice  - Shute

Pippi Longstocking

The Borrowers

Of Mice and Men

The Womens Room

Five Quarters of the Orange

love it - my very favourite

 

A book I think we covered at school, but one I need to revisit.

oo ooloved the Woman's room and of Mice and men

Mind you, I can also just about remember me taking Philip Harben's cookery encyclopedia up to bed with me and showing dad a picture of a lovely cake when he came up to tuck me in. 

 

Awwwww 

When I was very young - well, at primary school, my parents listened to a radio adaptation of Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (It was still just a trillogy back then, ) It sounded very dry and boring to me at the time and I got the impression it was something like 'The Brothers' TV programme. It was several years later when I actually read the books and was quite gob-smacked at how rivetting they were - absolutely NOTHING like my childhood impression.

 

Hi Cologne - a nice swift five 

 

The Borrowers brings back memories

Oooh....a book I really really loved as an adult, was Ben Elton's Blast From the Blast. I highly recommend it!

 

It was the first book of his that I ever read....and I loved it so much I wanted to read his others.... but yeah, I should have quit while I was ahead.  

 

Little Women! 

 

oh,I forgot...the Bill Badger books.... I read them as a child and I would love to read them again 

 

I want to throw into the mix a couple of books from my youth.

 

Roald Dahl's

 

James and the Giant Peach

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

 

I always associated myself with Jo

This thread is making me think I need to branch out in my reading again....these days I tend to stick to detective novels.... but I'd be hard pressed to remember a thing about them once I've finished. 

 

Except for Jeffery's death, I'll never forget Jeffery's death. *holds Baz's hand*  

I love all Ben Eltons - really enjoyed his latest 'Two Brothers'. I think he's a great and very underrated writer.