I Read Therefore I Am discussion

I didn't keep my list up to date in 2013 - I shall do better this year.

1. tales from the 1001 Nights
I really enjoyed this - I think my favourite thing about it is the way that many of the stories end:
For instance ".....the two lived in amity and peace until the there came to them the Spoiler of worldly mansions, the Dark Steward of the graveyard; the Shadow which dissolves the bonds of friendship and ends alike all joys and all sorrows" - so much better then And they all lived happily ever after.

Another one I am definitely planning to get to!

2. the Moomins and the Great Flood- Tove Jansson
3. the Mouse and his Child - Russell Hoban- absolutely loved this one

4. The Ballad and the Source - Rosamond Lehmann
"She brought 'er own ruin on 'er" said Tilly "And tried to bring down others in 'er fall"
I loved this book

5. Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge
Absolutely adorable, strange and magical

6. Artful- Ali Smith
A real brain exerciser but very enjoyable
7. Persuasion - Jane Austen
8. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aitken.
I enjoyed this but not as much as I'd thought -I'd have loved it as a child though.

9. Burial Rites - Hannah Kent - excellent
10. A Bad Beginning - Lemony Snickett- enjoyable but I don't think I'll read any more of the series
11. Obabakoak - Bernardo Atxaga- Parts one and two are a bit so so but part three is great.

Lemony Snickett - like the Jim Carey movie? That would put me off altogether!

Yes the film is very close to the book - though I think they adapted the first 3 books into the one film.

11. Five Children and It - E Nesbit - what's not to love
12. Obabakoak - Bernardo Atxaga - will definitely be retreading that 3rd section.

Doing well Lee :)

Definitely helps to increase the book count when you're reading a lot of children's books :0)

Still, impressive! And I'll bet it keeps your imagination fresh.

It definitely helps to read something fun once in a while

I don't really enjoy children's books that much but I have read a couple of Michael Morpurgo ones. The only ones I loved and have reread are Philip Pullman's His Dark Materiels trilogy. I thought they were amazingly well thought out and very inventive.

My dad's a big fan of His Dark Materials - I thought it was very impressive- but I prefer my children's books rather more nostalgic and charming :0)

Ahhh! You big softee! The only children's books I actually ever remember reading were the Just William books which I loved, but I'm not sure if I would call them charming but perhaps nostalgic!

Never got into Just William myself - but I know a lot of people who love them.
My all time favourites are Winnie the Pooh, the 5 children and it trilogy - surely one of the earliest fantasy novels for children and of course the Alice books.

13. Robinson Crusoe - who knew Friday used to be a cannibal?

14.Cheerful Weather for the Wedding - Julia Strachey

Well done Lee! See, you aren't REALLY a snail, more like speedy gonzales ;)

Now she's likening me to a talking mouse - sigh.

Oh no!!! I feel like I'm slandering your name all over town when I merely want to flatter... Dear oh dear. I'll keep trying :-)

15. The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
16. A Sea-Grape Tree - Rosamond Lehmann

17. Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada
18. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead - Barbara Comyns

19. The Courilof Affair
20, The Inheritors

21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

22. The Guide
23. Vertigo

Doing so well L :-)

Thanks Angie, in the opposite of my defence (my prosecution?) - a lot of my reads have been on the shortish side and I don't spend much time trying to finish books that I don't get on with.

24.Carrington: A Life
25.Over the Frontier
26. The Woman Warrior

27. The Idiot
28. Daughters Of The House

29. How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the Fa Cup
30. The Summer Book

31. The Dean's Watch
32.Mr. Chartwell

33. The Palace of Dreams

34. The Murder of Halland

35. The Seville Communion

36. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
37. A Time of Gifts
38. Pointed Roofs

39. Thérèse Raquin

40. Claudine at School
41. The Medusa Frequency
42. Mrs. Tim Carries On
43. Puck of Pook's Hill

44. Hangsaman
45. Thornyhold
46. The Big Sleep

47. I Pose

48.Ice Cold in Alex
49. Mrs. Tim Gets A Job
50. Pilgrimage, Volume 1: Pointed Roofs, Backwater, Honeycomb

51. Mrs. Tim Christie