So what is everybody picking for their book(s) to read? I have the list and will put it on the page this weekend.
My personal picks from the 10th grade list:
Victoria Holt - My Enemy, the Queen (I used to read her a lot)
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart (ditto - an Arthurian book)
T.H. White - The Once and Future King (very good - King Arthur again)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Jane Austen (via other people who are absolutely sure that she is the Queen of Literature, period...)
***(star, star, star): Jane Eyre - I could read this over and over. I have seen almost ALL the movies too.
Anything by Dickens (prepare to work hard though - BUT you get to glimpse the actual time period...)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - ditto - this time you get to run through the heather in the days of Bonnie Prince Charlie... a new movie of this just played a few weeks ago on PBS. The person that played Davie Balfour wasn't at all like I imagined... but he grew on me.
I'm sure many others are just as great. These are some I've actually read and can recommend.
So... what is everybody reading? A curious mind wants to know!
posted by Betsyanne (E Sheppard) at 7:05 PM
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I’ve already finished Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and I enjoyed it a lot, if anyone is still trying to decide on a book, I’d suggest that one.
The other two I’ve picked are Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’. I really love her work, it’s different from most mysteries. Also, on the Biography Channel (185 on insight) sometimes shows the David Suchet movies. They’re old, yes, but they’re very enjoyable.
And finally I’ve just begun Conrad Richter’s ‘Light in the Forest’. I had no idea what it was about until I got it from Walden’s the other day, and well... my brain hasn’t exploded yet.
Anonymous female student from class
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