Since asking for feedback about your favourite books, I’ve discovered that you puzzlers have a passion for reading.
Vanezza Kirkaldy loves to spend time in the library and re-reads good books. “One that really brought the tears was The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks” she writes. She also loves Frank Dalby Davison’s Dusty and Man Shy and has just re-read Mists of Avalon and The Pillars of the Earth.
Non-fiction is favoured by Warwick Bint, such as the travel book Beyond the Blue Horizon by Alexander Frater, which he found immensely readable, humorous and enlightening. Also, Fate Is The Hunter by Ernest Gann, Stranger In The House by Julie Summers and books by Bill Bryson.
Sharyn Murdoch-Daly is a collector of Erle Stanley Gardner and John Creasey books. In a recently read John Creasey book, she enjoyed coming across interesting words, such as thraldom and calumny.
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is Felicity Curtis’ favourite book. She gets it off the bookshelf whenever she wants a really good read, whereas Ruth Marsh got hooked on Chamomile Mourning by
Laura Childs from her Tea Shop Mystery series and read the rest of the series. As well as the stories, Ruth liked the recipes in the back of the books.
Horse-lover Hilary Ward rates Black Beauty by Anna Sewell as her favourite and still has the book she was given as a child, while Judy Parry lists Forever to Remain by E V Timms as her choice. As a child she
also loved all the Coles Funny Picture Books and like Felicity, The Wind in the Willows because her father used to read it to her. A Tale of Two Cities made an impression on Maureen Nund. Her other favourite is To Kill a Mockingbird.
You can read more comments on our Lovatts website under my May column. Meanwhile, I can’t wait to get back to my novel To Serve Them All My Days by R F Delderfield, one of my favourite writers.
Happy Puzzling!
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