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Do you have a favourite classic book that you first read years ago? Choose at least one classic book that you remember reading for the first time. Tell us about your choice & enjoy reading it again this month.

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Thanks, Jazzy - your photos are great.

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1 Under the Greenwood Tree, Thomas Hardy, 6/15/24, 4*
I chose this as I first read books by Thomas Hardy while on holidays in Dorset so was surrounded by the countryside he described.

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✅1. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (1935) 6/15/24
✅2. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (1945)
✅3. Island of the Blue Dolphins: A Newbery Award Winner by Scott O'Dell (1960) 6/14/24

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I intend to work through The Space TrilogybyC.S. Lewiswhich has 3 books:

1Out of the Silent Planet✔5/6/24★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Too in depth for me to go too quickly through!I'll have to settle for one book this time and read the others at my own pace!

I read this first around 40 years ago-loved the first two books,hoping to understand Book 3,now!

I will read two books from my school days. I have watched serials on TV based on them but have never reread them.

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1 Swami and Friends by R.K. Narayan 4 stars

2 Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore 5 Stars


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Antiques Roadshow June 2024 Challenge
Revisiting Enid Blyton's Adventure Series

Books:
1. The Island of Adventure ✅
2. The Castle of Adventure ✅
3.The Valley of Adventure ✅

Antiques Roadshow June 2024 Challenge

Books:

1. Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton First Publ 1942

Entering the same river twice:
Karel Čapek - War with the Newts 1936
Valentin Kataev - The Holy Well 1967

Kathy wrote: "Antiques Road Show (June 2024 Challenge)
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1. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (1935)
2. Pippi Longstocking by [author:Astrid Lind..."

I just reread Pippi Longstocking or Pippi Långstrump which is her Swedish name. It was so interesting to read it as an adult and to myself, not to children! I wish you a pleasant reread (⁠ʘ⁠ᴗ⁠ʘ⁠✿⁠)

I'll take on another love from childhood - the Famous Five (⁠ʘ⁠ᴗ⁠ʘ⁠✿⁠)

Nike,
I'm looking forward to my children's books reads for this month. I haven't re-read any of them since childhood!

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1 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) June 23,2024 4*
2 The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol (1842) June 29. 2024 5*

These are both texts that I have read before. It was my third read for both.


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Planning - Possible books
It is likely I will read Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) 409 pages . I first read this as an assignment in High School. I really did not understand it. The sections of Austen's writing that were intended to be humorous were confusing to me. I thought that it was so long ago they simply had strange habits?

Perhaps I will read Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter (1913) 304 pages. My mother had a collection of perhaps 50 hard back books that were printed in the 1940s and early 1950s. They were meant for girls. She had many of the Pollyanna series. I have all her books and read Pollyanna about 20 years ago.

Some smashing choices here!

For once I've finished in good time. And Wow! - my first reread of Enid Blyton as an adult and I loved it! I read the first book about the Five and it's really good! I'll continue reading them (or listening to them) and I will certainly reread my favourites by Enid Blyton which were the Secret Seven. This is hilarious! Thank goodness I'm old enough to reread children's stories (⁠✷⁠‿⁠✷⁠)(⁠ʘ⁠ᴗ⁠ʘ⁠✿⁠)(⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)(⁠☆⁠▽⁠☆⁠)

I've been rereading Enid Blyton's Adventure series. So far they've been so much fun-and exciting!

Enid Blyton has proved popular, Nike & Rosemarie! I’m glad you are enjoying reading some old favourites. I remember reading them when I was young.

I finished. See message 5. The best book was Pippi Longstocking. I think I liked it even better than when I was a child.

That’s lovely, Kathy. Reading a favourite book again is always a risk - will it still be a favourite or will it be a huge disappointment? I’m so pleased you enjoyed it.

June was a month of revisiting…
These books were revisited with the great delight:
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Valentin Kataev - The Holy Well 1967
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Karel Čapek - War with the Newts 1936
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human 1953
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Max Frisch - I'm Not Stiller 1954
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Ingeborg Bachmann - Malina 1971
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Franz Kafka - A Country Doctor 1919
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Nikolai Gogol - Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka 1832

I’m glad you enjoyed your books, Vit. You read a lot this month.

Thank you tr1sha.