#littenswanttoknow @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I read for the sheer pleasure a beautiful sentence can give you,to expand my horizons and learn about perspectives different from mine,for fun,to relax my mind after a stressful work day by disappearing into the world of the book.
My family are all book readers,so my parents and grandparents inculcated the habit!
Any snatch of time I get!
Not been on Litsy much,how lovely to be tagged on something so thought provoking! @Eggs #WondrousWednesday
1.The illegal demolition of the Babri Mosque in 1992,broadcast live on TV,and the pogroms against Muslims that followed.Polarised the country to this day.
2.Library!No more space in my house for books😰
3.Tagged book!Still my favourite in the Famous Five series!
#Jumpstart2021 @Clwojick @Lizpixie
#Bookthatstartedyourreadingobsession
This book.Oh my god, this book.I probably read it...once a week when I was a kid.This book transported me to Kirrin Island, and the Famous Five's adventuring. This is definitely the book that led me to think that reading was something that was more fun than anything else!
#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz
1. The tagged book, it's still my Favourite Five book!
2. I've read the Narnia books multiple times, and the Chalet Series! Also I read most of Enid Blytons books again last year, for the millionth time!
3. I read the Phantom Tollbooth when I was much older, maybe 12 or 13, and I really wish I had access to that when I was younger! It didn't decrease my enjoyment of it though!
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1. Enid Blyton, throughout my childhood! I've read everything by this super prolific writer, the tagged book is the first I read by her, and among my favourites!
2. I find myself reading mostly romance novels.
3. Alice in Sunderland by the incomparable Brian Talbot
pickI always enjoy re-reading the Famous Five books as they were one of my favourites as a child. Joining the Five in their adventures always puts me in good mood and makes me feel like a child again.
1. All Enid Blytons have long descriptions of food! Apparently to let children living in wartime England with food rations live vicariously through her books.
2.Lemon muffins. And anything my mum makes.
3.Mushrooms.
4.Lisbon,absolutely adore Portuguese desserts specially pastel da nata.
5.Gostana, Bombay
#ManicMonday
Fun quiz @JoScho !!
pick#10questions
1. Bookriot
2.When I was 6,and read my first in Enid Blyton's Famous Five series,the book I've tagged.( all Indian kids who show interest in reading are given Enid Blyton, I think it's a mild colonial hangover. Not that I'm complaining :-)
3. Enid Blyton books, The call.of the wild, Black Beauty, Roots, Les Miserables, We the living
4.A visit from the goon squad
5. Watching tennis
6. Unreal
7. The hobbit
8 and 9. None
10. My parents
panSuch a disappointment. The Five are nasty, arrogant, selfish, mean-spirited, grossly classist little brats here, and both the children and the author seem to revel in their verbal and physical cruelty to the antagonists' child and little dog. Even the Five's canine member here is horrible--a vicious, tormenting furred menace that needs reined in by animal control. Ugh! Terrible!
Ugh! I really hate animal cruelty. A mangy, yelping, flea-ridden dog is an abused and neglected dog, not a proper target for an audience's derision.
Triple ugh! You dropped the ball here, author.
Easing further into the #24in48 readathon with some vintage Famous Five
Easing further into the #24in48 readathon with some vintage Famous Five
Five Run Away Together. Enid Blyton | 
