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This week’s topic is Books I Wish I Could Read Again For The First Time. I don’t often read books more than once but here are a few exceptions:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – a Christmas tradition in my house
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier – and then watch the film version starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë – and then watch the film version starring Orson Welles and Jane Fontaine (again)
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Montserrat – and then watch the film version starring the wonderful Jack Hawkins
Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves – a reminder, if ever it were needed, of the horror of war
And a few that will come as no surprise to regular followers of my blog who know of my admiration for the works of John Buchan. Incidentally this Thursday, the 26th August, is the anniversary of his birth in 1875.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Mr Standfast
The Island of Sheep
The Power-House
Sick Heart River
Do you read books more than once?
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