Tell me what you've read!
(I've forgotten other books in here. I know I must have listened to many in an eight-month commuting jag in 1991 and every other summer I worked.)
Only three tapes, but the battle only lasted a day. I had known in ninth
grade why the English won the battles of but lost the Hundred Years War.
This at least refreshed why they won this battle. "We band of
brothers."
Fall of 1994
I read this in ninth grade; in that extremely varied school year we also
read Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and David Copperfield.
Sing Ho! for the western canon. I was pleasantly surprised how much
I did like Dickens. Dickens, the Stephen King of the last century. But A
Tale of Two Cities is wonderful. Typically Dickensian wit (sly and rapier
sharp), political subversion, and of course, "'Tis a far nobler thing..."
Fall of 1994
It's a nineteenth-century British novel! In this one, Hardy breaks the
mold and the end features both death and marriage. Such bravado.
Fall of 1993
Narrated by Jeremy Irons, yum yum! Lots of the anti-Catholic satire was
lost on naive little me.
Summer of 1991
Once again Maugham made me wonder why he bothered. I had read Of Human Bondage and was left wondering why? I think--though it seems mighty unlikely--hat Bill Murray did a screen version of The Razor's Edge and that I saw it with my mother in the early '80s sometime. I still will read that someday. Summer of 1991
JUDB recommended this and I am glad she did. The only problem is that Karen von Blixen and Beryl Markham were similar enough in their independence, Kenya, Dennis H-person, and aero-planes, that, as I listened to both in the same summer, read by the same narrator, I tend to confuse them. Risks of the trade. Summer of 1991
My first recorded book. Ah, what a good one. "We do not think that you
will forget us." At least I think this is when I began to listen to books.
I remember hearing that line and thinking how it struck me while driving to
meet PLT somewhere; my meeting PLT
anywhere pegs the year:
Summer of 1991
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