Love looking through the lists of others … and 100% aligned with the value of ‘if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing’. I have just started a new list - ‘Books for Reading While Travelling’ … I’m going to train myself to read on the iPad and I’ll create a little library on the ‘Books’ app. ‘The Summer Book’ is going on the list even though we’ll be in Scandinavia (on current plans) in September so a bit past the season. I have a Jove Jansson on my ‘Books from 1965’ list, a late coming to her words. I’m not a big reader of fantasy but the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were teenage absorptions! My dad read Asimov and the last book I gifted him was a Le Guin, Jolabokaflod last year and he passed shortly thereafter … probably before he read it so maybe he’s borrowing from her library, wherever they ended up. Anyhoo, love a reading list and this one is great, not least because your story is woven through it. Books are great, but the how and why folk read them is fascinating too.
So many wonderful books there that are deeply embedded in my own psyche as well - especially Earthsea, and the Moomins, Green Knowe, the Weirdstone of Brisingamen, and T.H. White’s Sword in the Stone books. Happy days. Setting me thinking on making my own list.
What a fascinating list! I love that it’s so personal and that the themes align with your own. The Summer Book is now on my list. We were in Finland last summer, so it appeals doubly.
Love looking through the lists of others … and 100% aligned with the value of ‘if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing’. I have just started a new list - ‘Books for Reading While Travelling’ … I’m going to train myself to read on the iPad and I’ll create a little library on the ‘Books’ app. ‘The Summer Book’ is going on the list even though we’ll be in Scandinavia (on current plans) in September so a bit past the season. I have a Jove Jansson on my ‘Books from 1965’ list, a late coming to her words. I’m not a big reader of fantasy but the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were teenage absorptions! My dad read Asimov and the last book I gifted him was a Le Guin, Jolabokaflod last year and he passed shortly thereafter … probably before he read it so maybe he’s borrowing from her library, wherever they ended up. Anyhoo, love a reading list and this one is great, not least because your story is woven through it. Books are great, but the how and why folk read them is fascinating too.
The overlap with the books that shaped me and my writing (at least of fiction) is uncanny!
So many wonderful books there that are deeply embedded in my own psyche as well - especially Earthsea, and the Moomins, Green Knowe, the Weirdstone of Brisingamen, and T.H. White’s Sword in the Stone books. Happy days. Setting me thinking on making my own list.
What a fascinating list! I love that it’s so personal and that the themes align with your own. The Summer Book is now on my list. We were in Finland last summer, so it appeals doubly.
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