Pratibha R.D.H.'s Blog: Flights of fantasy, page 4
January 26, 2013
The City of Joy
The City of Joy by Dominique LapierreMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The story of, by and from the poor...very moving and makes us appreciate all the blessings in our lives even the small ones!
View all my reviews
Black Beauty
Black Beauty by Anna SewellMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
What a beautiful story from the perception of a horse! Brilliant! Great reading for youngsters and adults!
View all my reviews
A Little Princess
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Another book I loved as a child and read a countless times. Deeply felt the sense of loss for Sara on losing her father. The ending was pure poetic justice and it also showed me how superficially people can behave as per your social status. But of course even that was relatively unfathomable at such an early age as that.
View all my reviews
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Loved Robinson Crusoe from start to finish. As a child loved fantasing about how it would be like to be abandoned alone in an island like that and what resources I could or would have used!
View all my reviews
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan SwiftMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
One of the greatest novels of our times...what imagination...but I really wished Jonathan had saved this one for me...maybe I could have dreamt up a plot like this...lol!
View all my reviews
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A childhood thriller...found it so mysterious at the age of nine...absolutely!
View all my reviews
Great Expectations
Great Expectations by Charles DickensMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Another of my favourite classics! I thought Estella was really lucky to be loved by Pip the way he did and was definitely peeved with her airs and graces....Thank heavens Dickens revised it again all due to the dissatisfaction expressed by his fellow authors about it having a sad ending. He changed that to give it a better closure by leaving some hope for the relationship of Pip and Estella albeit ambiguous. All in all I enjoyed this book a lot.
View all my reviews
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist by Charles DickensMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Oliver Twist made a huge impression on me as a young girl of nine and made me realise how blessed I was! Oliver's words,"Please, sir, I want some more," truely stirred my heart strings everytime I read it. Truely one of Charles Dickens greatest novel for all ages and so easy to read and understand.
View all my reviews
Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I will mention the same review as I mentioned for the other Hardy novel I read, which is about the tragic element in Hardy's novels that always left me sad and depressed. I liked this less than "A pair of blue eyes," but then good that I read it as reading a classic always enriches one's vocabulary and command over the English language.
View all my reviews
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I loved this one....at times I found it too lengthy...great for classic reading.
View all my reviews
