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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

OP posts:
FairlySane · 30/04/2023 10:05

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

ZombieKettle · 30/04/2023 10:12

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

Notellinganyone · 30/04/2023 10:15

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

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.

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

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?

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

InsertSomethingMotivationalHere · 30/04/2023 12:26

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

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

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.

merryhouse · 30/04/2023 14:52

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

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?

KingscoteStaff · 30/04/2023 15:01

Well obvs.

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...

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.

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

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 15:09

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

IcakethereforeIam · 30/04/2023 15:10

@timetochangethename just googled the author Cynthia Voigt. I really need to reread, and I'm pretty certain I haven't read them all. Once again, thank you.

Mrstwiddle · 30/04/2023 15:13

Enid Blyton
Agatha Christie
Georgette Heyer
Anne of Green Gables series
Nancy Drew (the originals)

Booklover40 · 30/04/2023 15:14

Agree re Adrian Mole OP, they never fail to make me lol.

I also love the Anne of green gables books (Rilla is my favourite) but my absolute favourite author is Barbara Comyns and I adore all of her books. There is only one that’s out of print that I don’t own (“out of the red, into the blue” if anyone has a copy they want to sell me!)

My favourite summer reads are Just for the Summer by Judy Astley and any of Elin Hilderbrand’s books. She is queen of the summer novel IMO.

Maggiesgirl · 30/04/2023 15:15

Another one for the Earth Children series, also the Outlander Series. I usually have one or the other downloaded on my audible

MaisieDobb · 30/04/2023 15:18

For me, The almost Art of Keeping secrets,
Agatha Christie, Cold Comfort Farm and Snobs

SparkyBlue · 30/04/2023 15:19

Maeve Bonchy and sometimes Marion Keyes. I had Maeve Binchy in my hospital bag when I was having DC

Zebracat · 30/04/2023 15:26

Those who love Noel Streatfeild may be pleased to find she wrote about a dozen light romances under the name Susan Scarlett. Dodie Smith wrote more than I capture the Castle, although it is the best
I also love Austen, Eliot and Mrs Caskell, Heyer andSayers and Tey. Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses is gorgeous. Just found a writer called Eva Ibbotsen. So lovely. Especially The Morning Gift.
I still bitterly regret that moment in 2011 when I thought myself ridiculous for having pony books around in my 50s, and got rid of them during a house move. Although Joanna Cannon was the mother of the Pullein Thompson’s, and her books are also great comfort reads.

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