In the Guardian, Jane Brocket selects her “top 10 food scenes in children’s literature,” including scenes from Anne of Green Gables and Little Women, from two Enid Blyton books (Famous Five picnics and jammy buns in In the Fifth at Malory Towers), Maria’s tea party in The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge, and robber [...]
If you’re starting from scratch and don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it, you might really appreciate this list of 110 books that constitute the ‘perfect library’: “From classics and sci-fi to poetry, biographies and books that changed the world … we present the ultimate reading list.” Originally in the Telegraph. [...]
The Columbia Spectator started a series on Thursday that will feature one book that “captures the essence” of each of the 50 United States. The first state is Alabama, and the book is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Check back each Thursday for a new state, new book.
Lots more lists of fiction set [...]
at The New York Times‘ Sunday Book Review Reading Room. First up: War and Peace. (via RA Online)
Mary at 52 Books has posted a list (author, title) of about 20 classic fiction and non-fiction dog stories, from Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson to Lad, a Dog by Albert Payson Terhune.
A few that aren’t on the list:
The Shaman Bulldog: A Love Story (1996) by Renaldo Fisher. One of my favourites, a book [...]
If Jane’s your girl, check out Bette-Lee Fox’s article in Library Journal this week. She suggests three re-writes (two of Pride & Prejudice, one of Emma), a sequel and series of sequels to P&P, two epistolary collections connected with P&P, two novels about Jane Austen herself, a mystery series featuring Jane the detective, five [...]