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Yes BC I devoured it,...and would you believe,my mother used to read it after me.
Don't know when it finished.must have a google!
I read it from about 1945.....there was another one I can't remember,maybe you can!

No question, Biggles!


Mayfield,
Beware the Hun in the sun! ;-)

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

I always wanted to be either David Balfour or Alan Breck, fascinating book and equally fascinating film :-)

Helloo :-D.... lots of great characters there, favourite might be Jo or Heidi?
All well loved books that's for sure and have to say imo books that can be read again and again.

Only ones I've not read are Biggles (my brother would have) and The Wind on the Moon,must look that one up Sheila :-)

Anyone remember when Just William was on radio in the forties? think it might have been Sunday afternoons........his mother calling "Williumm"!!! and him shouting "coming mother" and then music 'skipping' lol..... we'd dash to the kitchen table and listen intently ahh them were the days;-)

My first story book was Milly Molly Mandy and I loved the drawing,inside the front cover,of the map of the village where she lived.
I wanted to be MMMandy and live with family altogether in a nice white cottage with a thatched roof,and play with friends called Susan and Billy Blunt. :-D

Oh, yes! I used to love Milly Molly Mandy - she seemed to have a lovely life. :-)

She certainly did Lynda ...running in races at the fete,minding the village shop and going blackberrying ...a bit like we did really :-D

BC and Brenda here's a lovely link for you to take a trip down memory lane :-D xx


http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=28307

Strangely, though I read books, I always wanted to be one of Lord Snooty's gang, or Minnie the Minx :-D

Minnie the Minx?...saucy madam :-D who from Lord Snooty's gang?

Thanks for that link, Mau. 1956 eh? :-D <3

Me!!! I wanted to join it :-D

Sounds strange, but though I could read before I went to school (self-taught through comics) , I didn't like books - or rather no books ever 'hit' me, until the age of 9, when I read 'The Little Red Pony and other stories' by John Steinbeck - and I'm not, nor ever have been a horse lover.
After that - I read all the John Wyndham books, HG Wells etc. I wouldn't call myself a Sci Fi fan either - but loved the books :-D
I was quite old when I got round to 'Little Women', and found it boring.

This liking of 'strange' books must be a family thing. My grand daughter read 'The curious incident of the dog in the night-time' when she was 10, and said it was the best book ever!! Daughter asked her about it afterwards, to make sure she understood about the Autism etc. Grand daughter does - there's a boy at school with autism :-D I'm so proud of her and my daughter :-D :-D

Writing the above has reminded me, my daughters, especially the eldest, always wanted to read my Tom Sharpe books, but I wouldn't let them, because the covers were a wee bit risque. They were on the top shelf.
Once the eldest turned 14, I let her - only to find both of them had been sneaking them away and had read most of them!!! :-|

I've read "The curious incident ....good book. The play, from the book, is on in the West End Maggie and Luke Treadaway who played Christopher won best actor in Olivier awards.

I remember reading Mam's 'Peyton Place' and feeling very daring lol

Did you click on the other years BC? <3 :-D glad you liked it

My 'naughty' book was Forever Amber :-D

Norty girl! ;-) the book was banned wasn't it? too many sexual references,of course that would only add to the books sales :-0

Film: leading lady and man please? lolol :-D

I loved Enid Blytons famous five books.

My foster mum in WW2 had lots of Just William books and Billy Bunter .the owl of the remove which were illustrated and I read these books over and over.
After WW2 I would visit every Easter and for a month in the summer Holidays and I reread those books over and over,

Auntie would send me a new year annual every Christmas and an Enid Blyton just 5 book .

It was from her that i got my love of reading.


Mind you later ,when it became available i just had to read Lady Chatterley,s lover ,very risque at the time .

Enid Blyton was a good story teller wasn't she?

An announcer on our local radio this morning told us about an exhibition at N/Castle this week of Blyton's books.She wrote 800, and they are still being sold world wide,but said, with some non pc words etc.'adjusted' because of the age we now live in :-S

ooh yes forgot about 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' :-)