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Mr Whyte challenged me to list 10 books that have
stayed with me in some way and tag people to do the same.
Rules (there are always rules): Don't take more than a few minutes and do not
think too hard. They don't have to be the "right" books or great
works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way. Then tag 10 friends including me so I can see
your list.
Here's mine
1. Black Beauty - by Anna Sewell, Bigsister read it to me when I was four and I
wept when Jo the stable lad hid his face between BB
and Ginger's head when the big house was sold and the Squire and his wife moved
abroad for her health.
2. Wind in the Willows - same sister, same age,
same effect when Mole found his abandoned home, still does it when I read it
now. (Dulce Domum chapter)
3. Where Rushes Grow Green - given to me Bigsister,
it's a non-anthropomorphic story of a water vole - I still have it.
4. Jane Eyre - by Charlotte Bronte - started
reading it when I was seven but only got to chapter two, gradually read more
and more as I got older, finally finished it when I was thirteen, and have read
many times since. My favourite book, and
it should be in the feminist library despite being the template for every
romance since.
5. Noddy & The Magic Rubber by Enid Blyton -
one of the first books I read to myself.
6. Britain's Storehouse - I think this may have
originally belonged to my Dad. All about
things in a home which had come from "all over the Empire" and how
they were made or harvested - except for the cuckoo clock which was Swiss.
8. When We Were Very Young by AA Milne - guess who gave me it - still have it - can still quote bits.
9. Britain's Summer Visitors - a bird book which Grampa and I used to look at together (he died when I was five)
10. Goldfinger by Ian Flemming - my first Bond book, oh the excitement and such wonderful descriptions of food.
That probably reveals more about me than I'd like people to know.
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