All About Books discussion

June 28th

There is a shop near me in Beverley which sells loads of very affordable penguin classics. I bought Wuthering Heights and Heart of Darkness from there.

My favourite place to browse for books is the second hand book stalls on Southbank and I've bought lots of books from there over the years

Heather wrote: "June 25th- Never finished it"

Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Got about half way though during two plus years of reading, but finally moved on.

The Painted Drum bought in Lake George, MN, not even sure what the store is called! I try and make a point of getting something every year we go up for Blueberry Festival. I think I also bought the childhood classic Blueberries for Sal up there too.

June 28th Bought at my favorite independent bookstore

The Visitors by Sally Beauman.

My bookstore was the ABC/BBC bookstore but the group closed down. The bookshop has been bought out by a local couple.

June 29th Most re-read book

June 29th most re-read book :The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe well all the Narniad really. A couple years ago I decided to challenge myself by reading the Narniad in French. CompletedLe Lion, la sorcière blanche et l'armoire magique and Le Neveu Du Magicien

June 28th Bought at my favorite independent bookstore
Mendelssohn Is On The Roof
Bought at an independent bookstore near Hampstead Heath. Not close enough to be a favourite store but a very memorable find. Harrowing but compelling read with a lot of black humour.

I have re-read The Great Gatsby many times .

June 28th Bought at my favorite independent bookstore
Tender is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

June 29th Most re-read book
Wuthering Heights

June 29th Most Re-read book

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Recently my most re-read book is any in the Harry Potter series. I have read The Hobbit many times and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

When I was younger I re-read The Horrible Histories books repeatedly and a book called The Rebel Fairy which I was obsessed with!

Heather wrote: "June 29th Most re-read book "

Paradise Lost. Read it at least once every three years.

The Little House of the Prairie series

There's three books there with the same score: All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque, The Clown by Böll and The Notebook by Agota Kristof.

June 30th A book you would save if your house burnt down

This is the last day of June so the last book a day question. Thanks to everybody who has joined in, I hope you had fun. Please feel free to keep answering the questions if you haven't posted already

June 30th

A slight cheats answer for me. I would save my kindle or whatever book I was reading at the time!

Heather wrote: "June 30th A book you would save if your house burnt down

This is the last day of June so the last book a day question. Thanks to everybody who has joined in, I hope you had fun. Please feel fre..."

Only one!! I couldn't choose! I would definitely save my kindle too!

Most re-read book
Probably Pride and Prejudice; but also Little Women

A book you would save if your house burnt down
Don't ask me to choose between my children! I'd pick my ereader: one thing, lots of titles!

June 29th Most re-read book
Probably The Lord of the Rings, although maybe a few Georgette Heyer books might equal that (The Reluctant Widow, Friday's Child, Frederica)...

June 30th A book you would save if your house burnt down
Oh dear! I would try saving the books I got from my mom's uncle (that were printed in 1910-1925) -- several Rafael Sabatini, a beautiful illustrated Arabian Nights, a couple of Alexandre Dumas... and a big family Bible.

Lot's of talk about this book recently on numerous threads, but if forced to save just one, I guess it would be my illustrated copy of The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels which is no longer in print.

Heather wrote: "June 30th A book you would save if your house burnt down"

I'll go with the biography of my grandfather; it's signed by the author to my father, passed down to me, and the book is long out of print and irreplaceable.

My great-great grandfather's Bible, given to him by his parents on his 8th birthday, has by tradition passed down to each firstborn son on his eighth birthday, and would have been my book to save except that my son, of course, now has it with him. I hope that if he answered this question, it would be his choice.

@everyman What lovely books as what a great tradition to have