heehee, I can't stand a lot of Austin- I prefer Charlotte Bronte. And I really wanted to throttle Emma...

I agree Emma is a complete brat but all the 'blunders' are fun when you re-read it and know who ends up with whom. Avoiding the movie (Gwenyth Paltrow, not Clueless, Clueless is brilliant) is a good idea.

I re-read Austen, Georgette Heyer (the slang in her books is pretty hilarious "Slumguzzle old Gundiguts" and you avoid all the boring heaving bosoms of regencies), Mary Stewart's Merlin books, anything at all by Patricia McKillip or Cecilia Holland (well , maybe not Cecilia's recent stuff), John D MacDonald's Travis McGee series, and for rainy days the Belgariad is always good...

<Edited to add Dorothy Sayers. Every time I come across one of Lord Peter's literary or poetical quotes that I can now source, I am so idiotically proud of myself.>



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In the middle of reading the Martha Grimes 'Richard Jury' series. Hadn't read her since that Detective Fiction class in college.

I can always re-read Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series, good, yet naughty, fun. I enjoy Laurell K Hamilton too, but an adult read, definitely. Douglas Adams, Agatha Christie, and JK Rowling are on that list, too.

I think after I work my way through Martha Grimes, I'll go back and read Mary Stewart, been a long time for those, too. And I think I'll pick up a few books by some Welsh fellow, Jasper Fforde his name is. :-)

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Welcome to the fforum- report to the cube for assimilation.

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> Welcome to the fforum- report to the cube for
> assimilation.

Well, resistence to the BookWorld is futile, isn't it? :-)

I haven't been around for awhile, but I'm not a completely new member. :-)

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Even so, help yourself to pie

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Mmmm, pie! Which of course being a New Englander means either strawberry-rhubarb, apple or pumpkin. Of course, the apple pie would be served with some really old Cheddar smuggled over the border from Vermont to here in Massachusetts.

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I really must read Jane Eryre, I have it looming over my head (literally as it is in my book pyramid)
Strawberry pie?
I like strawberries- if they became prolific enough to dominate the world, I for one would be content!
As a pie, I have never met one ^_^

Try this...
Strawberry Lemon Pie (soak it in the sun...)
[www.jfolse.com]

Or this:
[www.abc.net.au]

BibwitHart Wrote:
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> I really must read Jane Eryre, I have it looming
> over my head (literally as it is in my book
> pyramid)
> Strawberry pie?
> I like strawberries- if they became prolific
> enough to dominate the world, I for one would be
> content!
> As a pie, I have never met one ^_^

It's the addition of the rhubarb that brings it to another level. ;-)

Wait…you have a book pyramid?

Yes. Mostly textbooks though. Some fun stuff.

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> Have you tried reading Susan Cooper? The dark is
> rising sequence? good stuff, and some is set in
> Wales.

Yes i have read Susan Cooper, I really enjoyed the Dark is Rising sequence too. Have you read any Alan Garner? I really enjoyed the Weirdstone of Brisingamen (spelling maybe wrong on that!) when I was younger - possibly because it was set in Alderley Edge which is close to where I grew up. I always enjoy books like that when they reference places you know.

"The Owl Service" by Alan Garner was very good too as I remember - though a long time now since I read it.

Yup! I read Alan Garner when I was younger, I don't remember much of it
I have a copy of Elidor floating around, his books can be a bit hit or miss. Owl service was ok. I should re read the weird stone...
^_^
Oh, it's great!I mention a book and heaps of you have read them! even some of the more obscure ones. I hate talking about a great book and people going: who? So many authors ought to be more famous and others should not be so famous.

Since my post about it I found my copy of the Weirdstone...completely forgot that I still had it! I think I may reread it too.

I highly recommend Sabriel still.
Garth Nix is that particular author.

How many people have seen the film Mirrormask by the way?(apart form Kitten!).
How cool are Dave McKean's drawings!

I just saw Mirrormask for the first time recently, and them proceeded to watch it twice more, because it was just that amazing!

Mirrormask is gorgeous.

I can re-read Good Omens repeatedly. Seems I love Neil Gaiman's collaborative stuff but his own work doesn't quite have the same impact.

Welcome wwww (why did I think that your real name would be Dot?)

Have some pie.

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