Good Readers of Scotland discussion

Does anyone enjoy George MacDonald books? I love his books. Sometimes I struggle with the old Scottish, but if I read aloud those parts I usually can follow the conversations.

I am not Scottish but I love the culture and am married to a man who's family was from Harwick.

I am a big fan of MacDonald. A couple of years ago my sister and I took a trip to Scotland, tracing some of the places critical in his life and books. His hometown, Huntly, is a wonderul little place. He used many places from there in his books (such as the ruins of Huntly Castle). Do you read more of MacDonald's fiction, or non-fiction?

I have read several of his books and plan to read more. I love the Scot's brogue and have found the more i read books that use it, the more i know about it. If you want another good author who writes about scotland and also has a dictionary at the end of her books, look up the books of Liz Curtiz Higgs. I highly recommend them.

Hi Rebecca & Anne,

Thank you both for such encouraging and helpful responses! So glad to know others love MacDonald. I like his fiction. I am not familiar with his non fiction, but will look up info on it.

I will look up the author Liz Curtiss Higgs.

Also I look forward to chatting here about MacDonald books in the future.

I just found this helpful Scottish words link online. I am using it as I read George MacDonald.

http://www.litscape.com/author/Robert...

Don't feel bad about needing to use this. I moved from Strathclyde to Grampian ages ago and discovered the dialect spoken up there bewildering. Not only the doric itself but the accent.
A fair few regional dialects in the country, though they are being watered down by the MTV effect.
But I have yet to find anyone that talks like Scotty from Star Trek or groundsman Willie...apart from when in the pub quoting said characters.

Oh, also worth a wee look is: http://www.scots-online.org/

Thanks Old Barbarossa! I did check out the link and it looks helpful :). I am noticing now that I looked up a few of the words, that I am figuring out the different spelling patterns of old Scottish. it is getting easier to read it more smoothly.

A friend told me about this family who makes George MacDonald books that look like the original old Victorian books. here is the link.

http://www.johannesen.com/index.html

I am reading this MacDonald now.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...

It is SO good. I am listening to it on my kindle, as I recover from a virus. Well, back to bed and to listen to "Thomas Wingfold-Curate."