favourite books

my fave books - a non definitive list as I kept putting off publishing this list in case I had forgotten something - so a work in progress.

classics
love austen. fave now is pride and prejudice - right balance of light and shade. as kid loved mansfield park as i identified with fanny with more self insight now, i am much more like elizabeth...
barchester towers series by trollope - just like church politics today. a real lesson in godliness not being which party you belong to, rather whether you are like jesus - or in this series like the warden.

literary
love AS Byatt. favourite is possession. very literary without being all pretension no plot.

fantasy
lord of the rings - see title of blog. very small person and mammoth task.

sci fi
native tongue series by suzette h elgin. sees women acheive liberation through their own language.

childhood faves -
all lm montgomery - favourite anne of the island and rilla of ingleside - the romance ones!
laura ingalls wilder - my fave was these happy golden years also the romance one...
narnia series
noel streatfield books such as ballet shoes

poetry
wb yeats
robert frost

light read
hornblower - swashbuckling - but with an insecure hero.

christian
bible - fave book in that philippians
prayer by richard foster - see chapter on prayer of tears.
wounded healer -henri nouwen - through our wounds we heal
crucified god - jurgen moltmann - theodicy of the cross.

recent faves
the kite runner - Khaled Hosseini - afghanistan from the inside and outside.
gilead - marilynne robinson - unexpectedly uplifting