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stellar_muddleThings you would think that I would have learned before now:
Don't store Milkybars in your trouser pocket.
So, what are the old favourite books that you go back to and curl up with? The comfort, old friend books. Not necessarily the ones you recommend to friends, but the ones for a beanbag in front of a roaring fire on a rainy day. They may not get dragged out more than once or twice in 5 years, but you always go back to them. The literary equivalent of a snuggly old housecoat and slippers.
Currently have cravings for Louisa May Alcott and L.M. Montgomery* - have some on e-book (yay Project Guttenburg) but it is not quite the same as curling up with a well worn paper copy. I left most of them behind in NZ, and 3 and a bit years is just long enough to start missing them.
* More the latter than the former as LMA could get amazingly preachy in some of her non Little Women ones. Though she did write the blood and thunder lurid short stories she had Jo give up on.
Don't store Milkybars in your trouser pocket.
So, what are the old favourite books that you go back to and curl up with? The comfort, old friend books. Not necessarily the ones you recommend to friends, but the ones for a beanbag in front of a roaring fire on a rainy day. They may not get dragged out more than once or twice in 5 years, but you always go back to them. The literary equivalent of a snuggly old housecoat and slippers.
Currently have cravings for Louisa May Alcott and L.M. Montgomery* - have some on e-book (yay Project Guttenburg) but it is not quite the same as curling up with a well worn paper copy. I left most of them behind in NZ, and 3 and a bit years is just long enough to start missing them.
* More the latter than the former as LMA could get amazingly preachy in some of her non Little Women ones. Though she did write the blood and thunder lurid short stories she had Jo give up on.
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Date: 2007-03-27 02:33 am (UTC)Project Guttenberg does have a bunch of the LM Mongomery books (Anne and others) should you wish to try before you buy. But they are nicer on paper.