Posted by martin on April 23, 1999 at 09:54:57:
In Reply to: World Book Day - who's reading what? posted by Peter Willis on April 21, 1999 at 22:45:46:
Recently finished Colonel Bailey's Mission to Tashkent. As I've already mentioned, a tale of great bravery and ingenuity, but all a bit futile, rather like the charge of the Light Brigade. Very British I suppose.
Reference in it to the real life "Stalkey" - Maj-Gen L.C. Dunsterville - made me re-read Stalky and Co., still entertaining, and the Maj-Gen's "More Yarns", fairly boring for the most part.
Re-reading Missee Lee with the girls.
Putting myself to sleep at night with the Folio History of England, currently in the Early Middle Ages. I made a stab at Gibbon's Decline and Fall a year or so ago, but found I was increasingly deciding to sleep without a read!
I've been half-way through one of the old green Penguins for some months. I've been collecting them for years as a source of social history, but tend to read them in spells.
Happy reading to you all!
Incidently, can anyone suggest where I might best get hold of books by a minor children's writer of the early fifties: Margaret Baker (The Young Magicians, Lions in the Woodshed, Treasure Trove, The Family that Grew and Grew)?