Posted by Racer on November 6, 2005, at 19:00:36
In reply to Currently reading (and need for reccomendations), posted by NikkiT2 on November 6, 2005, at 10:52:02
Jane Austen.
"Pride and Prejudice" will be your favorite book after you read it. You will reread it many times. You'll also love "Persuasion," although it will not make you laugh nearly as much.
I suppose I can't mention E. M. Delafield, since she's really one of yours (are any of her books in print over there?), but she wrote some lovely little novels. In a way, "Bleak House" is a romance, and it is by an Old Master. (My nerdy joke on the subject: "Imagine how different life would be if Dickens had been paid by the word?" Of course, apparently only my mother and I get that one...)
OK, funny story to interupt with: I just came back from looking at my bookcases to see if there was anything I could recommend. My husband just came in to find out what was wrong, and why I was upset? I'm wondering what's going on, he tells me it worries him when I stare at the wall that way... Once I got it, I told him it was the bookcases and we had a good laugh.
I"m not particularly a romantic novel reader, so not a lot that I can offer there. Jane Smiley does have some that I like, although not particularly romance-style romances...
Nikki, couldn't you ask for something I could help with? You know, 'tragic novels of Old New York values,' like "The Mother's Recompense?" Or 'essays by a humorous doctor on medical subjects,' like "Bedside Manners?" Or just a list of children's books that were special to me, like "Charlotte Sometimes?"
{sigh}
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