Coundown to Langue[dot]doc 1305 Day 7
I have consulted on the intarwebz, and the general consensus is that everyone needs strange writings in the lead up to my book coming out. Today you ten get possibly-not-so-well-known books I've read in the last little while. They're all fun for quite different reasons. Some of them I've mentioned here and some, not.
#1 Because it elicited a lot of interest while I was away. Matthew Smith, Memoirs of Secret Service 1699
#2 For the political, something about the Rump.
#3 Lancelot Addison The Present State of the Jews 1676. This is because of the time of year - you need Jewish things to contemplate amongst the other.
#4 English Worthies in Church and State 1684. This is a very handy book to have round. Everyone needs a copy. It sums up one paragraph with "So much for Robin Hood." I'll let you find that paragraph for yourself, though, for I need to check what it says for Huntingdon (which I forgot to check before- shame on me!).
#5 Something worthy of a re-read, always (not obscure at all, but I miss it and my e-reading time is nothing-but-Aurealis right now, because of the format of the books) Edith Nesbit The Enchanted Castle PS Why does spellcheck want to turn Nesbit into BITNET - oh, how the mighty are fallen!
#6 Angela Brazil The Luckiest Girl in the School
#7 Norman Lindsay The Magic Pudding. This one need to be read with images. How can one know what a pudding thief looks like without pictures, after all? In fact, The Magic Pudding is full of pictures and conversation and so Alice would have approved.
#8 At Agincourt, by GA Henty. This one I have not re-read recently, but I probably ought. He led me into history when I was but a toddler. Well, maybe not a toddler. I might have been seven. But I read him and got hooked.
#9 JS Polack New Zealand 1838. This is only volume two and there are other books by him. I don't think he's a relative, nor do I think he's related to the Polack whose grave is a tourist attraction somewhere in rural NZ (who is apparently a relative of mine) but I dip into his books from time to time because they're interesting and because he has a delightful surname.
#10 Under the circumstances, it would be wrong of me to leave out the book I re-read just yesterday. It isn't free (and not quite available yet), but it has a very pretty cover and it's most certainly obscure. Gillian Polack Langue[dot]doc 1305
#1 Because it elicited a lot of interest while I was away. Matthew Smith, Memoirs of Secret Service 1699
#2 For the political, something about the Rump.
#3 Lancelot Addison The Present State of the Jews 1676. This is because of the time of year - you need Jewish things to contemplate amongst the other.
#4 English Worthies in Church and State 1684. This is a very handy book to have round. Everyone needs a copy. It sums up one paragraph with "So much for Robin Hood." I'll let you find that paragraph for yourself, though, for I need to check what it says for Huntingdon (which I forgot to check before- shame on me!).
#5 Something worthy of a re-read, always (not obscure at all, but I miss it and my e-reading time is nothing-but-Aurealis right now, because of the format of the books) Edith Nesbit The Enchanted Castle PS Why does spellcheck want to turn Nesbit into BITNET - oh, how the mighty are fallen!
#6 Angela Brazil The Luckiest Girl in the School
#7 Norman Lindsay The Magic Pudding. This one need to be read with images. How can one know what a pudding thief looks like without pictures, after all? In fact, The Magic Pudding is full of pictures and conversation and so Alice would have approved.
#8 At Agincourt, by GA Henty. This one I have not re-read recently, but I probably ought. He led me into history when I was but a toddler. Well, maybe not a toddler. I might have been seven. But I read him and got hooked.
#9 JS Polack New Zealand 1838. This is only volume two and there are other books by him. I don't think he's a relative, nor do I think he's related to the Polack whose grave is a tourist attraction somewhere in rural NZ (who is apparently a relative of mine) but I dip into his books from time to time because they're interesting and because he has a delightful surname.
#10 Under the circumstances, it would be wrong of me to leave out the book I re-read just yesterday. It isn't free (and not quite available yet), but it has a very pretty cover and it's most certainly obscure. Gillian Polack Langue[dot]doc 1305
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