The Ultimate Book Bash: Part 3

 18.  Name three books everyone should read.

The Bible, The Complete Works of Shakespeare,  and a Dictionary. Well you did say 'everyone should'!

    19.  Name two books we wouldn't have expected you to enjoy.

I'm not sure exactly what this means but two books you wouldn't have expected me to enjoy but which I did enjoy are Hmm... perhaps, but I don't know what you would think is unenjoyable! What about Charles Dickens' a Child's History of England, but I only enjoyed the beginning of that. Or perhaps you would not have expect me to enjoy Shakespeare! I do enjoy him when I am not in a 'I want to be given entertainment rather than give my mind to get it' state of mind.

    20.  Name three books that have good movies to go with them.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, both the latest movies are good but the 1995 one is more true to the book. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, but then I watched the movie first. And Cranford by Elisabeth Gaskel so amusing both book and movie.

    21.  Any books coming out soon that you're looking forward to?

My Mama's book Arkiahh's Dream, make sure you look out for it next year!

    22.  Name two authors you'd like to talk to.

Louisa May Alcott, because it would be comfortable and she would only put me in a book if we became well acquainted and by then I wouldn't mind. Jane Austen and find out what she really was like, though I should be scared to death and she would hold me in contempt. What are all authors like behind their front of words, behind the book, and not how they are to fans, but to their family? Would we be disappointed?

    23.  Science fiction or a fairy tale?

A fairy tale, especially one by Hans Christian Anderson or George McDonald

    24.  A classic book you haven't read is...?

Utopia, I want to read that.

    25.  Shakespeare or George Bernard Shaw (who wrotePygmalion)?

Shakespeare

    26.  Name a movie (or two) where it's actually better than the book.

Hmm...Black Beauty I can't help but cry when I see it. And The Scarlett Pimpernell, but that's not really valid as I haven't read the book.

    27.  Where is your favorite place to read?

On my bed, beneath the window with a cat or two curled up on my knees and the late afternoon sun coming through the lace curtains....

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!