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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Thea Beckman is the writer who got my interested in historical fiction... Two of my favourite writers at that age were she and Evert Hartman....
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I also enjoy historical fiction. I suspect I didn't like those books because they were pushed by not only my grandmother but also my school.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I remember at high school, we had to read all those literature books for Dutch class. I hated it while I love reading. In English class we also had to read 10 books (if I remember correctly...). But the only catch there was that they needed to be of a certain length (not too short). I read, amongst others, Shogun by James Clavell, Clan of the Cavebear by Jean M. Auel, but also 1984 and Animal Farm. Not because I had to, but because I wanted to.
I've not read many Dutch books since, while I devour English books (exceptions are the books by Thea Beckman and Evert Hartman, who I still read even though those are "juvenile" fiction...)
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I also hated the Dutch reading list. For English we also had a required reading list (which, 15 years later is still the same!) but we had a nice teacher and if you wanted to read something else you could ask. He was also always telling us about the book he'd read in his spare time.