tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331943136127375888.post5804503182376635707..comments2020-07-03T13:26:24.411-07:00Comments on Philippa Werry's author blog: Book listsPhilippa Werryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459995279772723450noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331943136127375888.post-28326163313229330452012-05-13T13:47:26.000-07:002012-05-13T13:47:26.000-07:00Hello Pippa - Thank you for dropping by my blog to...Hello Pippa - Thank you for dropping by my blog to say hello and how interesting that we were both discussing the 'classics' or the 'must reads'. I started late in my quest to be 'well read' and so I went straight to Tolstoy, Joyce and Dostoevsky in my early twenties - I can confess though I still haven't read 'Ulysses' although I still own the battered copy purchased on my travels back then - one day, perhaps. I did discover Joyce late in life again at Victoria University in my 50's and loved 'Portrait of an Artist' and 'The Dubliners'. And then, I was part of a Classics Book Group which was great fun as we read books we thought ought to have, but hadn't read - which for me included 'Madame Bovary' and indeed 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.Maggie Rainey-Smithhttp://acurioushalfhour.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331943136127375888.post-83479115606298832662012-05-14T13:19:24.000-07:002012-05-14T13:19:24.000-07:00There's an interesting link on Beattie's b...There's an interesting link on Beattie's blog today to an article in The Guardian about 'The Canon' and a quote from Lionel Shriver saying this "When I have tried to, say, reread a Dostoevsky novel, I've discovered that I don't have the patience any longer – for the long philosophical digressions, for example. I bet I'm not alone in this reduced tolerance for the stylistic traditions of the past."Maggie Rainey-Smithhttp://acurioushalfhour.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331943136127375888.post-40299024318930792542012-05-17T13:26:59.000-07:002012-05-17T13:26:59.000-07:00Yes, that's certainly the case with children&#...Yes, that's certainly the case with children's books as well - I often think back to the authors I used to enjoy reading (like Rosemary Sutcliff) but does any child read them now? Those big blocks of text and detailed descriptions are so different from the layout of today's books for children. Is it that we don't have the patience, or we feel too busy to commit to those long reads?adminhttp://www.philippawerry.co.nznoreply@blogger.com