I love to read. I even read junk mail. I will read any book or magazine I get my hands on.
My mother loved the Lord of the Rings series. On January first every year she treated herself by reading it again.
Usually if she liked a book I would read it and enjoy it as well. For instance I loved the Mrs Polifax series. And I introduced her to Silence of the Lambs. She was not impressed. But usually we liked the books together.
I have tried to read Lord of the Rings at least half a dozen times. I cannot get past the first chapter. I have no idea what the problem is. So I have never read this iconic series.
I would be interested to know if there are books others have a problem reading.
I like that Mrs. Polifax series and Lord of the Rings. One book I can not read is by Ferrante, the first one in a series, I don't recall the title, and it is a best seller.
ReplyDeleteMrs Polifax is quite the character. Some books are unreadable for certain people. Odd.
ReplyDeleteI have never attempted or even been interested in reading The Lord of the Rings books, Emma. The types of books I would not even try reading are science fiction, westerns or horror. My favorites are historical fiction.
ReplyDeleteI love biogrpaphies. I guess there is a bit of voyeurism in me. I like to try to understand why people do the things they do.
DeleteGreat blog
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DeleteI have not read the book but I have seen The Lord of the Rings trilogy and I really liked it
ReplyDeleteUntil I was 30 I had read many books.
I didn't have money to buy what I wanted, so I went to public libraries and borrowed
Among authors I like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Victor Hugo, George Orwell, Tom Robbins, Jack Kerouac
and many others as well as some Greeks
Last summer I started a book where the story is based on true events and it goes like this: A Spanish woman and two of her friends after exchanging messages (e-mail) decide in 2000 to travel to the country of the martyrdom of women that the West observes with apathy .. where a family hosts them ..
Not to mention the result of this trip was the book: "The Silent Scream" by Anna Tortachada
A cry for help from a proud people living in a hell on earth..
A silent cry from a myriad of women whose only reason for existence is to give birth to children
The book is well written, unfortunately I could not finish it, I hope this summer
Good morning from GREECE
With Friendly Love and appreciation
The book sounds interesting. I'll have to give it a read.
DeleteDid I hear Silence of the Lambs?? It was made into a great movie which was filmed in Pittsburgh. When I was a student, I lived, studied and graduated in Pittsburgh. I love reading too and have 10-20 online newspaper apps on my phone. They are from many countries written in English to entertain me daily.
ReplyDeleteSilence of the Lambs is one of the only movies I have seen that follows the book exactly.
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