General Chat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;-)

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

No question, Biggles!


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

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!

Oh Brenda! Girls Crystal was one of my all time favourites and nobody I know seems to remember it! :-D

I loved the What Katy did books.....and like others here.I would have liked to have been Jo in Little Women...
We all seem to have similar tastes!
Did anyone get Girls Crystal...loved that.

I loved the What Katy Did books but even more I loved the Just William books and I really really wanted to be William :-D :-D <3

Loved the Famous Five Little Woman, and Heidi, have just lent my Heidi books to my granddaughter to read hope she enjoyes them has much has I did :-D :-D

:-D :-D@Rose

I always wanted to be Jo from Little Women.
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Swallows & Amazons series (Arthur Ransome) ( which gave me the sailing bug and is one reason I am not rich (*) ), Green Sailors, Berry & I, Richard Hannay adventures, anything dark - M R James, Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Rosemary Sutcliffe.

I found Enid Blyton impossible from the get go. Fortunately our school did not have any EB. My OH loves her though and insists on carting a complete collection ( in French ) around the world with her. All the animals have different names in French.

(*) my father was a naval officer and so encouraged this unfortunate addiction which is one of the fastest known ways to lose money and be terrified at the same time.

Wisechild, I have several of the 'Anne' books and still read them :-)

Heidi, Jo in 'Little Women' ( and sequels) and 'Elizabeth of the garret theatre' ... story about 4 girls also, who put on plays and whose step-mother turned out to be the sister of a famous actor.

Thinking about it, I am not sure I wanted to 'be' any of them, but I was always very interested in details of their houses, so I suppose realIy I want to be Bilbo Baggins :-)