1/22/2024 0 Comments Kids library books images bookworm![]() The girls bought a copy of Little Women and read it together until it was tattered and sweat-stained and fell apart. ![]() My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Elena, a writer in her 60s, learns of the disappearance of her old friend Lila and resolves to write down everything she remembers of their friendship growing up together in a poor and violent neighbourhood of Naples. They live quietly and slowly, and then everything changes with the arrival of a friend of Hana’s father who has a theory about the identity of her patient.ħ. The only possession that survived the fire is his copy of The Histories by Herodotus, into which he has glued pages from other books and written observations in his small, gnarled handwriting. He is damaged beyond recognition and has no memory. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje In a villa north of Florence in 1945, Hana chooses books from the huge library to read to her badly burned patient, who was rescued by the Bedouin when his plane crashed in the desert. Wimsey says that when he was in a nursing home with shell shock all he could do was play patience and read detective stories: “All the others had the War in them – or love … or some damn’ thing I didn’t want to think about.”Ħ. Is it to you?” While investigating a death that occurs during the Armistice Day parade, Lord Peter Wimsey learns a lot about his suspect from her bookcase – Woolf, Mansfield, DH Lawrence – and rightly concludes that she is unhappy rather than guilty of a crime. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers “Reading is an escape to me. When the brothers and their wives meet at the family home in the country, everyone chooses a book that reveals much about their character.ĥ. Somerset Maugham, Margaret Irwin, Howard Spring and Angela Thirkell all get a mention and the characters are in and out of bookshops. The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard In the first of the Cazalet chronicles, Howard layers up satisfying details about what everyone is reading. ![]() On the train home she reads an English novel and it is her impatience and frustration that signal to us that she is about to transgress: “It was unpleasant to read, that is to say, to follow the reflections of other people’s lives. My favourite scene these days is near the beginning when Anna is returning from meeting Vronsky for the first time and scarcely wants to admit the attraction. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy I’ve been reading and rereading this novel since my teens. Perhaps now something exciting will happen …ģ. When they hear that rich Americans are about to move in next door, it reminds them of the scene in Pride and Prejudice where Mrs Bennet says that Netherfield Hall is let at last. ![]() Cassandra’s beautiful sister, Rose, frets because she has no clothes and no opportunities. Her father, still famous for his experimental novel Jacob’s Ladder, is now stuck and does nothing but read as many detective novels as he can find. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Cassandra Mortmain writes her diary while sitting in the kitchen sink, capturing her eccentric family. Bill Nighy and Romola Garai in Tim Fywell’s 2003 film adaptation of I Capture the Castle Photograph: Allstar/BBCĢ. ![]()
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