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Post by ClaireLV on Jul 11, 2007 11:23:07 GMT -5
Mapp and Lucia are wonderful I read them again and again. I didn't think much of E.F. Benson's ghost stories though.
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Post by Bara on Jul 11, 2007 14:41:07 GMT -5
Oh, I haven't read the ghost stories, Claire. Did you see that someone (can't remember who...  ) has done a pastiche and taken Tilling and 'Mallards' on? Same thing happened with Wind in The Willows - someone else wrote a sequel. Yes Oryx and Crake was wonderful - but weird! Did you see the Mapp and Lucia TV series, Claire? It was (I believe) Geraldine McKeon, Nigel Hawthorne (as the tres gay, Georgino Mio) - and, I believe Imelda Staunton. (She of the new Harry Potter!) |
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Post by johnnysauntie on Jul 11, 2007 22:23:00 GMT -5
Anything by Dick Francis! Thrillers with horsey backdrops. Very entertaining.
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Post by adcooper on Jul 13, 2007 19:20:27 GMT -5
Took my own advice and checked out a Jody Jaffe book I hadn't read yet. On page one, there's a horse named Blue By You. It don't get much lighter than that! LOL!
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Post by sarafina on Jul 14, 2007 22:58:59 GMT -5
Anybody read Peter Mayle books? A Year in Provence, Toujours Provence, Hotel Pastis and the like? Very funny.
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Post by adcooper on Jul 22, 2007 14:32:18 GMT -5
Oui, Claire. The Mayle books are fun!
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) has done a pastiche and taken Tilling and 'Mallards' on? Same thing happened with Wind in The Willows - someone else wrote a sequel.
