A few of
Mummy Geek`s favourites -
The Mill on
the Floss - The first book which made me cry as a young teenager.
Love Story -
Indulging in tragic romance in my early twenties (Geeklet might have been
called Jennifer if two friends hadn`t used the name for their babies first!)
The Great
Gatsby - Studied on my English course, identified with characters, so wanted to
be cool like Jordan (another name I considered calling the Geeklet before it
became "popular" - imagine!!!!).
Any Sherlock
Holmes - Fantastically constructed.
The Colour
Purple - Read it in a day, gets into your soul.
The Bluest
Eye - The same.
Alice in
Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass- The first `proper` novels I read,
scared the life out of me, obviously too young for them!
Uncle Tom`s
Cabin - The first novel my mother read, with no understanding of its political
purpose of course.
A Tale of
Two Cities - Still at school with a very idealistic view of heroism.
The Catcher
in the Rye - Brilliant portrait painting in words, unexpectedly amusing.
Watership
Down - If you don`t cry you`re a hard person!
Post Mortem
- The first of a long series, still think it`s the best (read when alone ill in
a Spanish apartment one sunny afternoon - locked all the doors and windows and
slept with the light on even though the family had returned by then!)
Dr. Xargle`s
book of Earthlets - Ddult humour in a children`s book, very welcome to a parent
when repeated recitation of stories about fairies and talking animals have made
her brain cry out in pain.
The Wild
Swans - Riveting, don`t usually go for factual but liked the insight on events.
Angela`s
Ashes - Written with no judgement of, nor bitterness about, the past, couldn`t
put it down (ignored the family whilst reading it at dinner in a restaurant in
Greece - manners!!)
More to
come....?
Favourite
poems perhaps....?
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