Tell me what you've read!
Another banned book I only just got around to. I loved Robert Newton
Peck's Soup books as a child, and later I confused him with Richard
Peck (mostly because the setting of The Ghost Belonged to Me and
Ghosts I Have Been was also early this century, also rural, if not
in New England). This is a great book. Powerful in its simplicity, hopeful
in its wretchedness.
December 1995
A wonderful book that deserves rereading, as I hadn't in full since I
first read it in 1988.
December 1995
Yep. Count 'em up, eighty of 'em. Actually eighty-one, but only because
of the date line. So he cheated. Yip. A classic, genre-forming book. Yawnster.
December 1995
This book was my first (memorable*) introduction to the wonder of George Guidall as a narrator. His voice, I thought, was quite perfect. I like Davies's style a lot, at least in this format. Maybe, finally to finish his trilogies, I should find them in audio also. I did not understand what connection there was, if any was meant to be, between the past and the contemporary threads. I really enjoyed the Welsh names, especially finding the book on paper and finding the pronunciation on the tape and thus figuring out something about that zany Welsh spelling...most of which I've forgotten now.
*Not Guidall's fault (hail to thee, George Guidall). I thought
Anderson was dull.
November 1995
Chosen in a moment of desperation as I neared the end of A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn. Actually this might have been my first
introduction to George Guidall, but I'll be jiggered if I remember. 16 June
1997: I looked it up: it was my first Guidall, but the work was not memorable.
November 1995
Ah, my first Denver recorded book, the only good thing to come of an interview
way southwest in Highlands Ranch. I stopped at a Douglas County library while
down there--despite the high proportion of breeders there they keep one of their
libraries in a strip mall--and found this. That was a good selection. Perfect
voice, perfect reading, wonderful book. An instant favorite.
October 1995
Go to top of page, previous or next season, Introduction to Audio, Words, or the Lisa Index.
Last modified 20 November 1997
Speak your mind: lisawherepenguindustdashcom
Copyright © 1997 ljh