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Sunday, April 7, 2013

What's your favourite book?

Do you have a favourite book? You probably have at least ten! I've always found that kind of questions hard to answer. Don't you find it shocking when they are interviewing a famous person on the radio and he or she is asked out of the blue what their favourite book is? The interview might be about politics, the environment, art or whatever field the person is involved with. Then, the deep interviewer wants the audience to get closer to the interviewee and starts asking about their favourite food, book, song, movie, you name it. The best thing is that they are always prepared and give the wittiest answers. I try to put myself in a situation like that (as if anyone would ever want to interview me!), and I'm glad I'm nobody, because I would be so dumbfounded I would not know what to say. How can you choose only one!

Anyway, our friend Tony has found this piece of news on the BBC's webpage and I want to share it with you. Click on the link below to read the article and check out the list.

Teachers' favourite 100 books

Have you read any of those books? I have read 9 of the first 20 and I must admit that it includes 3 of my favourite books ever. As I said before it is very hard for me to choose one, but I'm going to try and give you a short list of the books I've enjoyed the most. I'm actually going to give you two lists. One with classic books and another one with modern literature. The order is totally random.

My classics  

1.- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2.- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
3.- The Collector, John Fowles
4.- The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
5.- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
6.- Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
7.- The Assistant, Bernard Malamaud
8.- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
9.- Dangerous Liaisons, F. Laclos
10.- The Color Purple, Alice Walker


Great Current Books 

1.- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
2.- Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
3.- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
4.- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
5.- The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
6.- Disgrace, JM Coetzee
7.- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
8.- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
9.- Empire Falls, Richard Russo
10.- Saturday, Ian McEwan

Do you have any favourite books you would like to share with us?


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3 comments:

  1. OlgaApril 13, 2013 at 8:02 AM

    My incomplete list

    -Treasure Island, RL Stevenson
    -Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
    -Animal Farm, George Orwell
    -The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
    -Short Stories, Saki
    -The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman, Laurence Sterne
    -Zuckerman Bound, Philip Roth
    -To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee


    I've read all of them in Spanish, but "To Kill a Mockingbird". I think I might reread some in English, the easy ones.
    I'm very interested in Bill Bryson now, his books fit my reading English level and make me laugh.

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  2. UnknownApril 16, 2013 at 11:38 AM

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  3. UnknownApril 17, 2013 at 4:46 AM

    Knock, Knock. May I comming?
    I'm here, downstairs and I'm starting to settle in. Today I can just offer you a tiny book from
    my super tiny list: Oscar Wilde's Short Stories ( The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince and
    more).
    I won't mention my Spanish favourite books, I had several. When I was a teenager I loved
    reading the work of Noah Gordon or Ken Follet.
    Lately my taste in Literature is being kind of chaotic and normally I'm reading two or three
    books at the same time but always a poetry book. Recently I've discovered the poetry of
    Teresa de Cepeda, astonishing!. In spite off my agnosticism when I was able to leave aside
    the idea of God I've found a strong, profound and painful sense of devotion. Extrange
    woman but in any case a phenomenal woman. She might be in hell or heaven getting on
    really well with ' Maggie ' and waiting for ' Angela ' to put the place where they live upside
    down.

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