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it;'s best the twelfth time - re-reads!

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tyaca · 28/09/2007 23:41

ok --- what have you read sooooo many times??

Cold Comfort Farm poss tops my list

Though i've been reading antonia forest non-stop for twenty years

my sister swears that kids author, cynthia voight, peaks on a twelfth read ;-)

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Caroline1852 · 05/10/2007 16:25

Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera AND 110 years of Solitude (though Love in the Time of Solitude sounds good!)

MaryAnnSingletomb · 05/10/2007 16:15

margoandjerry - it was The Backward Shadow !

lilibet · 05/10/2007 14:49

Just seen that someone has mentioned R F DElderfield - I must reread some of his.

I loved To Serve Them All My Days.

lilibet · 05/10/2007 14:48

The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - Marion Halcombe is the finest heroine ever in literature!

Watership Down if I'm feelign in need of a good sob. I love the bit at the end when Bigwig calls Hazel his chief rabbit.

Caroline1852 · 05/10/2007 14:44

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Solitude

margoandjerry · 05/10/2007 14:33

Oooh yes, the sequel. What was that called? She went to live in the country and can't remember anything else.

MaryAnnSingletomb · 05/10/2007 12:37

margoandjerry - yes, absolutely love The L Shaped Room !
there was a sequel too. Lynn Reid Banks used to live up the road from us when I was a girl.

mumblechum · 05/10/2007 12:08

Pride & Prejudice

Persuasion

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (rereading now for the nth time, I just love that book)

margoandjerry · 05/10/2007 12:06

Maryannsingleton's post has reminded me of another. The L Shaped Room.

You have to overlook some outdated racial stereotypes, if you can, but it is a very comforting read otherwise.

MaryAnnSingletomb · 05/10/2007 11:59

this was stuff written as a young girl - don't do it any more !

MaryAnnSingletomb · 05/10/2007 11:59

Up the Junction - by Nell Dunn - first read as young girl,not really suitable I suppose, but it's stuck with me and inspired me to write lots of sub standard drivel about working class life

Botbot · 05/10/2007 11:57

Ooh - did Le Grand Meaulnes for French A-level. Still have my English-language copy, but haven't read it since. Will add it to the to-read pile when I get home.

Dinosaur · 05/10/2007 11:57

Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney

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Caroline1852 · 05/10/2007 11:55

Has to be Alain Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes

margoandjerry · 05/10/2007 11:53

Frost in May by Antonia White. I don't really know why but I love it.

The Railway Children if I'm ill.

Diary of a Provincial Lady - E M Delafield at any time.

MaryAnnSingletomb · 05/10/2007 11:52

I always seek out the sad bits. I read The Front Runner as a teenager (found it in my gay cousin's box of books) and loved it - have re read it many times ! (and the death bit in that is very moving)

Botbot · 05/10/2007 11:49

Oh yes, me too

When I had a miscarriage a few years ago, I found the bit in Anne's House of Dreams when her baby dies really comforting.

Sorry for introducing a sad note to this happy thread!

MaryAnnSingletomb · 05/10/2007 09:36

I loved Anne of Green Gables and was obsessed by the chapter vwhere Matthew had died...

Botbot · 05/10/2007 09:13

Tales of the City for me too. Complete comfort reading. (Still haven't read the new one though - in fact I might hop over to Amazon and order it right now!).

And PG Wodehouse.

And childhood books too - Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie etc.

barnstaple · 04/10/2007 22:53

Anything by Robertson Davis
Cold Comfort Farm.
Austen
Christopher Brookmyre, Jasper Fforde, though I only came across these authors in the last 10 years (Fforde in teh last two)
Iain Banks and Iain M Bank

MaryAnnSingletomb · 04/10/2007 22:45

hope you like it lucylala !

lucylala · 04/10/2007 21:50

I've been to library today and borrowed Tales of the City - will get back on here when I've finished it. (have never heard of it!)

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tyaca · 04/10/2007 21:02

clumsymum, big billing, i will take your reccomdendation and get hold of a copy

janeite - the bath is the perfect place for ballet shoes but was made to do of mice and men at school and hated it!!

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janeiteofthelivingdead · 04/10/2007 19:16

Think I might read "Ballet Shoes" in the bath tonight - am in need of comfort!

I thought of another one - "Of Mice And Men" - on the surface it is so simple but it is such a muti-layered novel and I always find something else in it - and it always, always makes me cry.

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