Your favourite book

[getreal]

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Since we are including childhood,..

My favourite was far and away, the Malory Towers books by Enid Blyton. How I wished I went to that school! A swimming pool fashioned out of the coastal rocks, replenished twice a day from the seawater. What's not to like?


I, too, read the Female Eunuch and was blown away by it. I must have been 14 or 15ish as well.

I also love Muriel Spark, though I find some of her short stories perplexing. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is definatly in my top 3 books of all time.

[Dave B]

A swimming pool fashioned out of the coastal rocks, replenished twice a day from the seawater. What's not to like?

Crabs and stinging jellyfish, getreal?

[lewist]

A swimming pool fashioned out of the coastal rocks, replenished twice a day from the seawater. What's not to like?

Crabs and stinging jellyfish, getreal?

There were several of those in StAndrews. In fact, the Step Rock public swimming pool was like that but with the aid of some concrete walls. I learned to swim in it. The crabs and jellyfish were probably less concerning than the sewage outlets which ended somewhere below the low water mark.

Anyway, I have just finished the second of Ninny's mysteries, another good read. Thank you, Ms Boyd! I just reviewed it on Amazon.

[Ninny]

Thanks, Alan; it is indeed a fantastic website! Couldn't have done it without you (couldn't have done it at all!)

[Alan H]

As good a place as any to list some book shops that aren't owned by tax-dodging amazon: The quest for online independent bookshops information

[Fortitude]

I wouldn't know where to begin there are simply to many, based on how I feel at the moment?

The Tao of Pooh remains a firm top in Philosophy.
Perhaps the Deed of Pakesenarion in fantasy.
And Pandoras Star/Judas Unchained in Sci-Fi.

[Alan H]

I've not read it, but this might be interesting to some here, particularly Ninny:

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand

It’s general election year in the UK and figures are currently circulating about the proportion of women expected to vote. There’s no better time then to read a book about the fight for female suffrage. Introducing Anita Anand and her book Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary. The BBC journalist’s hotly anticipated literary debut looks at the life of Sophia Duleep Singh, a dispossessed Indian princess who joined the battle for female suffrage in the UK. With meticulous research and a broader context of the fall of the British Empire, this is the perfect start to 2015.

Anita was writing this when her husband, Simon Singh, was researching his last book, The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets. He tells the story that Anita was burying herself in books and papers while he was researching his book...lying on the couch watching episodes of The Simpsons!