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Originally Posted by Elsi
Marc, I'm in the same mode. I'm availing myself of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne and Emily books, and I've set myself the goal of reading the best of Anthony Trollope. Like you, I'm interspersing SF (and cozy mysteries) among these "classic" reads. Several years ago, I stumbled across a novel by Joanna Trollope -- The Choir -- and discovered that she is distantly related to Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope. Hence my interest in reading a few of his novels.
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I'm definitely going to go a Brunner book next (probably
The Sheep Look Up or
Stand on Zanzibar as they're the ones I remember having a look at from my early reading days). It's nice to know others are doing the same, so I feel less guilt
when I go from
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to something lighter (not light; just lighter in relative terms).
By the way, I'd noted to myself as well, seeing it in the newsfeed, that you have recently uploaded some books to MobileRead. I was struck with fond memory, since my Mum would occasionally refer to any two people dressed the same or behaving the same (that is, thick as thieves) as
The Bobbsey Twins and, although I knew what she meant (she'd occasionally refer to my sister and me as such...which is somewhat disconcerting in hindsight
), I never knew where she'd got the phrase from. Now I do.
Cheers,
Marc