The Ultimate Book Bash: Day 1

  I have desided to have a bash at it! Should be fun, enjoy! I you want to join me and others go to Austenitis to read all about it! :)

1. Name three books you love:

I love so many books the of the ones I love are Little Women by L. M. Alcott. There must be a reason I have read this book over five times!
And then I love Persuasion by Jane Austen which comes only slightly ahead of P&P and S&S. 
A third book I love is The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens which I have read twice and want to read again this year. I love the very last sentence which I wrote at the very end of one of my Journals 'Such are the changes which a few years bring about, and so dose time pass like a tale that is told.' That is, if I have quoted correctly from memory!

  




    2.  Name two books you enjoy, but that most people probably haven't heard of.
Perhaps you have never heard of Run Away Home by Elinor Lyon, another of the children s books that I love. Mama read it to us children and we did enjoy it and could always prevail upon her to read another chapter before bedtime as she enjoyed it so much herself.
I know everyone must know of Heidi, but have you read the two sequels by Charles Tritten. Heidi Grows Up is my favorite.
A Breath of Boarder Air by Lavinia Derwent is another. About the authors childhood on the Scotish boarders. It is often hilarious, and she writes in such a clever way so that you see the world through her own eyes as a child.
(These three pictures are exactly like the copies of the books I have.)

 

    3.  Name three series you love:

 Emily of New Moon  by L. M. Montgomery in her Emily of New Moon series which I absolutely love, they are so delicious and re-readable and inspiring. There are only three books but they are better than Anne of Green Gables, though Anne will always be among my best friends.

The Swallows and Amazons by Author Random are what we grew up on and so love the twelve books as good friends. They are about a family of four children (who exactly fitted us four younger children growing up) and their friends the Amazons having adventures on the high seas. Really the lake district and broads of England, but you can be anywhere in imagination! One of the Amazon pirates was called Nancy because her given name was Ruth and Captain Flint had told her that pirates were ruthless!

Narnia because a list of my favorite series would not be complete without, though I must mention Little Women series and the Little House series by Laura Ingles Wilder and the books about her mother and grandmother and about Rose her daughter.

    4.  Name three authors you love!

Charles Dickens, I'm a fan. Jane Austen you are a heroine. L. M. Montgomery, Thank you!

    5.  How about three adventures or mysteries?

Well I do love Robert Louis Stevenson and his The Wrong Box a short tale or long short story I have just read. ( It could also have been called The Wrong Body!) Very funny and made me laugh. He wrote it with his son in law to make some money for a holiday.

Sherlock Holmes! I love the man -  the ultimate detective!

How did I miss the Bronte sisters in all the above! As a mystery story I like Villette by Charlotte Bronte. I did enjoy it though I have head allot allot of criticism about it.

   

    6.  Three non-fiction

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear. A very interesting, in depth biography of my favorite children's book writer- little children's books that is.

The Man who Listens to Horses, an autobiography by Monty Roberts and a must read for any horse lover.
The Dictionary. Any edition but the older and more out of date the better!