Subject: Favourite author when you were a kid?
Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Apr 23 19
Which authors were your favourites when you were growing up? I remember devouring Lucy Fitch Perkins 'Twins' books when I was between four and seven, then Enid Blyton took over, followed by Geoffrey Trease. When I was about ten I discovered Charles Dickens, and a little later Jane Austen. I must confess, I found Miss Austen heavy going when I was in my early teens, but I quickly came to delight in her gentle humour and her brilliant characterizations. By the time I was 14/15, I had also cottoned on to Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey. Nothing like a little murder and mayhem to brighten one's day.
Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Apr 23 19
Which authors were your favourites when you were growing up? I remember devouring Lucy Fitch Perkins 'Twins' books when I was between four and seven, then Enid Blyton took over, followed by Geoffrey Trease. When I was about ten I discovered Charles Dickens, and a little later Jane Austen. I must confess, I found Miss Austen heavy going when I was in my early teens, but I quickly came to delight in her gentle humour and her brilliant characterizations. By the time I was 14/15, I had also cottoned on to Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey. Nothing like a little murder and mayhem to brighten one's day.
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TattieTam48 
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Robert Louis Stevenson through Treasure Island and Kidnapped to Dickens' Oliver Twist, Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities etc. Then as I got into teenage it was Ian Fleming, Mickey Spillane, P G Wodehouse and all points in between. Now mid 70s still read voraciously from Robert Graves to Tom Clancy, Baldacci, Tacitus, Homer.......been a great reading life. My aunt told a story about me many a year of when I was about 7 or 8 years old I wouldn't read out loud, in school. This was back in the 1950s when "spare the rod and spoil the child" was the rule of the day. Being a secular, Catholic, school you can imagine the "blessings" that were heaped upon me!! Onywyse, it only took one teacher, the beautiful Miss Donleavy, to excite my interest in books and reading by introducing me me to Richmal Crompton and the "Just William" series. It wasn't that I couldn't read, nothing excited me. Until then. My aunt told it like I was St Paul on the to Damascus. Apparently I coudn't wait to stand up and read out loud, after that. Reply #21. Dec 21 23, 11:59 PM |
Fenwayfan60
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Carolyn Keene.......I consumed Nancy Drew books like candy. One Christmas season, when I was nearly 10 and knew by then that "Santa Claus" was my mother, I went snooping in her closet. I found three new Nancy Drew books and snuck them out to read them, one by one. I was rather disappointed on Christmas morning, however, when I received three books I had already read. Reply #22. Jan 02 24, 7:53 PM |
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