All About Books discussion

N
E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet
Five Children and It
2 of my all time favourite children's books.

O: Emmuska Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel and its sequels

Tweedledum wrote: "N
E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet
Five Children and It
2 of my all time favourite children's books."

I really liked Five Children and It!

P: Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago. Never read it, the film was too "sugary" for me!!!

LauraT wrote: "P: Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago. Never read it, the film was too "sugary" for me!!!"

The book definitely isn't 'sugary' - and its different to the film. (I do love the film though)

I'll think about it then! Thank's Maggie

Anna Quindlen--Every Last One

R: Tatiana de Rosnay - Sarah's Key, great though sad book

Maggie wrote: "LauraT wrote: "P: Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago. Never read it, the film was too "sugary" for me!!!"

The book definitely isn't 'sugary' - and its different to the fi..."

Sugary!

Read the book!

S
Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Etc.

Joanna Trollope--Brother and Sister (read 05/05)

U
Eleanor Updale
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?
A great addition to the children's lit shelves set in Victorian London Montmorency is a great character.

V: Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth

W?

W
Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) author of the wonderful Jeeves and Wooster books.

X
Xinran author of Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

Y: Louisa Young author of My Dear I Wanted to Tell You ( a fabulous book)

Z: Émile Zola - on my to-read list

K

Rudyard Kipling

Terri wrote: "Anna Quindlen--Every Last One"

A very moving book

Alannah wrote: "K

Rudyard Kipling"

Why have you jumped from Z to K Alannah? Are you looking on an earlier page? I've done that before now. :)

Maggie wrote: "Terri wrote: "Anna Quindlen--Every Last One"

A very moving book"
I think this thread is authors last names Terri, can you think of an author whose surname begins with A?

A: Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of the Horses, etc.

B: Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden (loved it as a child)

Tweedledum wrote: "Maggie wrote: "Terri wrote: "Anna Quindlen--Every Last One"

A very moving book"
I think this thread is authors last names Terri, can you think of an author whose surna..."

Actually Terri's post was in the right place - Q - I had just replied to it.

C: Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Maggie wrote: "Tweedledum wrote: "Maggie wrote: "Terri wrote: "Anna Quindlen--Every Last One"

A very moving book"
I think this thread is authors last names Terri, can you think of an..."

Note to self..... Look more carefully.

D
Alexander Dumas (Pere)
The Three Musketeers

I'm getting hopelessly confused and will come back to this thread when I've woken up a bit...

E

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man Read in college. Didn't care for it.

F: Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth, The Key to Rebecca, The Third Twin, Code to Zero, A Dangerous Fortune, etc. etc.

G Robert Graves
I, Claudius

H
Johannes Hösle - Prima di tutti i secoli; just read; nothing special....

I: Arnaldur Indriðason - Icelandic mystery author: Silence of the Grave, Voices, etc

J:
M.R. James - master of the Victorian short ghost story such as A Warning to the Curious

Can you belive I've never read anything by him Jean? Which one would you suggest?

Ooo that is difficult, Laura. There are 3 collections of about 8 stories in each. Another collection is Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The last story in this is called The Treasure of Abbot Thomas which might be a good one, but that's a bit more literal than A Warning to the Curious.

Think of an understated Edgar Allan Poe; in "A Warning to the Curious" it's all suggestion.

There are reviews on my page of the collections and also some individual stories, Laura :)

John Knowles Read A Separate Peace. Loved it.

L: D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers which I didn't really like (but it has been 30+ years so maybe I should try again...)

M: Paul Monette--Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

Jean wrote: "Ooo that is difficult, Laura. There are 3 collections of about 8 stories in each. Another collection is Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The last story in this is called [book:The Trea..."

I'll give a look there then. It may be usefull for our theme challenge for the october read ...

N:
Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

O: Yōko Ogawa

Terri wrote: "O: Yōko Ogawa"
Is there a book by the author you would recommend?

P: Elizabeth Peters - author of fun cozy mysteries set in late 1800s/early 1900s primarily in Egypt. First one is Crocodile on the Sandbank

Q: Salvatore Quasimodo, one of our major poets (from Italy), but I don't have read anything by him..

R: Bertrand Russell we are reading his The Problems of Philosophy

S: Rex Stout - author of the Nero Wolfe mysteries

T: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories--Kevin Wilson

Terri wrote: "T: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories--Kevin Wilson"

Terri, I think that you got confused about which thread you were in - this one is author's last names.

Want to try again?

T: Josephine Tey - A Shilling for Candles, Brat Farrar, The Franchise Affair, The Daughter of Time, etc.