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Your 'comfort' book(s)

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JaffaCake70 · 29/04/2023 21:32

Not necessarily your favourite book, but which book(s) do you go back to time and time again and never tire of?

For me it's:

To Kill A Mockingbird

Any Adrien Mole (I still laugh out loud nearly 40 years after first reading them).

1984

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Hbh17 · 30/04/2023 15:09

Ooh, and I forgot Mapp & Lucia books - also very funny.

Jins · 30/04/2023 15:08

Susan Howatch - Wheel of Fortune
Anne of Green Gables.
Jane Eyre
Chalet School
Gone with the Wind - I first read this as a pre-teen during a bout of chicken pox and it saw me through Covid. It’s definitely an illness book

Hbh17 · 30/04/2023 15:06

So many of my faves already mentioned, but definitely:
Any Nancy Mitford, but especially Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate, which are still hilarious.
Pride & Prejudice
South Riding
Cazalet series
Jeeves & Wooster

timetochangethename · 30/04/2023 15:04

@IcakethereforeIam Diceys Song is the second book in the Tillerman Cycle. I have them all now, but that one is my favourite. I think it's because I bought it at an airport age 10 ish without realising at that time it was part of a series and loved it.

KingscoteStaff · 30/04/2023 15:03

merryhouse · 30/04/2023 14:52

@KingscoteStaff I love the way you don't bother giving the authors ;-)

Let's face it - if you've clicked on this thread, you know...

KingscoteStaff · 30/04/2023 15:01

Well obvs.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 30/04/2023 14:59

KingscoteStaff · 30/04/2023 08:49

Gaudy Night
Night Watch (actually, any Vimes ones)
The Long Winter
Good Omens (now on 3rd copy)

But not any Antonia Forest?

merryhouse · 30/04/2023 14:52

@KingscoteStaff I love the way you don't bother giving the authors ;-)

IcakethereforeIam · 30/04/2023 14:30

The Last Unicorn
Diane Wynne Jones any
Sheri Tepper most
Robert Westall

I read Dicey's Song decades ago, thank you for the reminder. Iirc there were sequels.

MrsMitford3 · 30/04/2023 14:07

Notellinganyone · 30/04/2023 10:15

Miss Read, Country Diary of a Provincial Lady, Mrs Miniver, The Pursuit of Love.

I def think we need to be friends.

I'd recommend Making of a Marchioness to you @Notellinganyone

I'm going to look up Miss Read now.

I need to add Harry Potter to my list

InsertSomethingMotivationalHere · 30/04/2023 12:26

Adrian Mole
The Life and times of the thunderbolt kid
The stand

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 30/04/2023 12:20

JaffaCake70 · 29/04/2023 21:32

Not necessarily your favourite book, but which book(s) do you go back to time and time again and never tire of?

For me it's:

To Kill A Mockingbird

Any Adrien Mole (I still laugh out loud nearly 40 years after first reading them).

1984

Adrian mole is my favourite comfort book of all time

MurderBot · 30/04/2023 11:02

Three guesses from my username😁

Also anything Discworld, and Good Omens.

I want to re-read Ballet Shoes now though...isn't it strange how just the vague memory of a book can elicit such strong feelings?

Theoldcuriosityshop · 30/04/2023 10:35

Winnie the Pooh
Black Beauty
The Secret Garden(the one that gave me my love of reading)
Anything by Maeve Binchy
Anything by Rosamunde Pilcher
Cranford
Lark rise to Candleford
Great Expectations
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Books by Bill Bryson

HuntingoftheSnark · 30/04/2023 10:21

Rebecca
The Grand Sophy
The Portrait of a Lady
The Shell Seekers
Middlemarch
No More Meadows - Monica Dickens and the only one I haven't seen already on here.

Notellinganyone · 30/04/2023 10:15

Miss Read, Country Diary of a Provincial Lady, Mrs Miniver, The Pursuit of Love.

ZombieKettle · 30/04/2023 10:12

Project Hail Mary - audible version. Narrator is superb and the story is wonderful.

FairlySane · 30/04/2023 10:05

Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
The Trick is to Keep Breathing- Janice Galloway

Beachhutnut · 30/04/2023 09:57

Harry Potter still re-read them after all this time, and anything Austen

BenCoopersSupportWren · 30/04/2023 09:50

Discworld, Maeve Binchy, early Marian Keyes, The Dark is Rising, the pony books (Pullein-Thompsons, Patricia Leitch, Ruby Ferguson) and Chalet School stories of my youth, Ballet Shoes, Cold Comfort Farm, Harry Potter, Wolf Hall, the Rebus books of Ian Rankin.

timetochangethename · 30/04/2023 09:44

Mine are all children's books

Are you there god? it's me Margaret
Back home
Diceys Song

I don't think I've ever read a book in adulthood that I've loved as much as these

CatChant · 30/04/2023 09:00

Oh yes, Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes too, and The Circus is Coming, White Boots and The Growing Summer.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 30/04/2023 08:55

Oh yes, Noel Streatfeild! My favourite is Party Frock. Ballet Shoes is marvellous too.

My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell.

Can't believe I missed Josephine Tey off my list of British whodunnit authors. Miss Pym Disposes is my favourite of hers, but I like them all.

CatChant · 30/04/2023 08:53

I left out Terry Pratchett! And Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver novels.

KingscoteStaff · 30/04/2023 08:51

@CatChant Yes to Charmed Life!

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