What Would Nicola Read?
Sep. 22nd, 2006 10:29 pmHas anyone ever read a book because Nicola (or Lawrie or Ginty) did first? For me it was Ramage and Brat Farrar.
It also happened the other way around in my case; I was thrilled to find that Nicola in Autumn Term was reading The Flight of the Heron, as the only other person I'd found who'd done so was my mother.
It also happened the other way around in my case; I was thrilled to find that Nicola in Autumn Term was reading The Flight of the Heron, as the only other person I'd found who'd done so was my mother.
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Date: 2006-09-23 12:33 pm (UTC)But I loved Lord Peter long before I loved Nicola! And I don't share her taste for Hornblower, either.
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Date: 2006-09-23 02:10 pm (UTC)I tried Henry Esmond purely because of Nicola and found it tedious beyond belief. Well, I say purely Nicola but it was actually Crommie's comment about Dickens-haters invariably enjoying Thackeray. Not this one!
I'd read Peter Wimsey independently but I was equally thrilled when I first saw Balliol.
I'd forgotten about Brat Farrar. Is it any good?
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Date: 2006-09-23 10:05 pm (UTC)Brat Farrar is excellent, one of those rare books which I read and immediately went back to the start and read again.
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Date: 2006-09-23 03:46 pm (UTC)