tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post2225416801693552284..comments2024-03-29T10:02:55.374+00:00Comments on Nigeness: A Great-Uncle Writes...Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-72092943865391108532015-09-21T10:31:50.587+01:002015-09-21T10:31:50.587+01:00Great - I think one of those will definitely make ...Great - I think one of those will definitely make it to the final cut...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-7079735702925976332015-09-20T23:43:28.385+01:002015-09-20T23:43:28.385+01:00Cather's My Antonia and her O! Pioneers are ex...Cather's My Antonia and her O! Pioneers are excellent choices. Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05845849566530252669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-26388337359524542552015-09-20T23:43:13.833+01:002015-09-20T23:43:13.833+01:00Cather's My Antonia and her O! Pioneers are ex...Cather's My Antonia and her O! Pioneers are excellent choices. Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05845849566530252669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-73939895248587398522015-09-20T16:05:14.642+01:002015-09-20T16:05:14.642+01:00Thanks to all - Emily Eden a fascinating suggestio...Thanks to all - Emily Eden a fascinating suggestion, and I've never read her myself. Your daughter's perspective is very interesting, Waldo, and I'm sure she's right - the appeal of another world. I suspect Dickens and Twain appeal more to male taste (generally speaking). To Kill a Mockingbird, Ron, is now so deeply embedded in English schools that it's the one book you can be sure every youngster has read. I've no idea why this is, but there you are... Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-30487905837968393832015-09-19T23:19:14.814+01:002015-09-19T23:19:14.814+01:00Sorry, another American one, but 'To Kill A Mo...Sorry, another American one, but 'To Kill A Mockingbird' should be must-read for everyone.Ron Rollinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16852012772573977515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-8440508172444226112015-09-19T21:52:14.051+01:002015-09-19T21:52:14.051+01:00Much about the behavior of 16-year-old girls is un...Much about the behavior of 16-year-old girls is unpredictable, including reading choices. After a steady diet of Harry Potter for several years, my daughter idly picked up a copy of Crime and Punishment and was entranced for the next week, even forgoing her weekly viewing of America's Next Top Model. Other favorites during the same period included Pride and Prejudice, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and of course the next installment from Hogwarts. Dickens and Twain got the cold shoulder.<br /><br />Seeking to make sense of this, I phoned her today, 12 years later. In her view, many girls that age are feeling acutely the conflicting demands of family, friends, culture and just want to be swept away into another world. The nature of that world can vary from week to week, as can most everything about a 16-year-old girl. Foreignness, in the broadest sense, is probably the best guide. True Grit sounds good to us.Waldonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-43510628338387517682015-09-19T18:44:38.812+01:002015-09-19T18:44:38.812+01:00Virago Press used to have a handy volume with Emil...Virago Press used to have a handy volume with Emily Eden's <i>The Semi-Detached House</i> and <i>The Semi-Attached Couple</i>. I believe I gave my copy to a niece, then aged something between 15 and 18. The same niece, a bit older, surprised me a bit by greatly enjoying <i>Mr. Midshipman Easy</i>Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-1152469101768941542015-09-19T17:37:56.391+01:002015-09-19T17:37:56.391+01:00Ah yes, some good possibilities there - thanks zmk...Ah yes, some good possibilities there - thanks zmkc.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-18518909795506376992015-09-19T14:48:03.883+01:002015-09-19T14:48:03.883+01:00When I was 16, I loved the Blandings books, Point ...When I was 16, I loved the Blandings books, Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley, Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart, Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and all Conan Doyle, including the odder, non-Sherlock oneszmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.com