This week’s geneabloggers prompt is books, these prompts are a great way to make family history personal and record information for your descendants. The full prompt is:
What was your favorite book, or who was your favorite author from your childhood? What do you like to read now? Books or other formats?
I am a real book addict and have been for as long as I can remember! I was a voracious reader as a child and was often told off for reading long after lights out at home. A child of the 1970s the authors and books I loved the most as a child definitely date me to this period:
- Enid Blyton: Famous Five and Secret Seven books
- Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons
- JRR Tolkein: The Hobbit (and later Lord of the Rings)
- CS Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe et al
As an adult I still enjoy some of these (though maybe not Enid Blyton!) but I’ve got a real love of historical fiction with my favourite authors including:
- Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe and others)
- Dorothy Dunnett (Game of Kings series and House of Niccolo)
- Wilbur Smith
- CJ Sansome
- Simon Scarrow
- Conn Iggulden
- Phillipa Gregory
- Elizabeth Chadwick
I also enjoy crime, mystery and fantasy novels such as:
- Colin Dexter’s Morse
- Christopher Paolini (Eragon etc.)
- Terry Pratchett’s Discworld etc.
- Kate Mosse
So it’s quite a varied list of authors and books but definitely within the main genres of history, fantasy and crime or maybe a mix of 2 or more! So what books are you fondest of now or in your childhood?
I have set myself a challenge of reading 100 books this year to get back to one of my first loves. You can see the progress here.
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