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My Lettered Mind… The Great Book Of Lists Chapter 1.4

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At a young age, deciphering the lettering in the pages of a book became No. 1 on the list of my favourite things and if it is possible to say, I would say that I gobbled up literature with such veracity, that one would think it was an Olympic contest.

The adventure that I have with books has led to a rhyme or two words.

Out of my forays in reading, I got to learn that I am an incurable romantic realist *if such a term exists* and I always look for the happy endings or at least something heartwarming.

I read several horrors after a fad and found it absolutely not to my taste.

Yes, I admit, the amount of Mills & Boons, Harlequin Romances, Barbara Cartlands, Penny Jordan’s, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Amanda Quick and the rest of the crew that I read, must have contributed some coins from my piggy bank to the authors pockets and it’s amazing how much content the brain can take in and still keep soaking up more each day.

Ah! These brings back the days of mobile library and the ice-cream van to my mind. The two always seemed to come around the school premises almost at the same time and now that I think about it, that ice-cream man must have been responsible for my love for sweets. Just imagine bringing my two favourite things together 😉

I digress. Back to some of the books that caught my mind, held my thoughts and stoked my imagination enough to steal into the toilet for a quick page of reading when I was meant to be watching the beans on the fire and yes, a page turned to several and the beans got burnt.

For this weeks The books that transport me, chapter 1.4 of TGBOL, these ones come easily to my mind:

  1. Lorna Doone  – Richard Doddridge Blackmore
  2. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
  4. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  5. The Basket Of Flowers – Christope Von Schmid
  6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  8. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  9. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
  10. The Count of Monte Cristo  – Alexandre Dumas
  11. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  12. Gone with the wind – Margaret Mitchell
  13. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
  14. Sands Of Time – Sidney Sheldon
  15. The Secret Garden – Frances Burnett
  16. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  17. The Merchant Of Venice – William Shakespeare
  18. Comics of : Archie, Betty & Veronica, Jughead, ASTERIX, TinTin
  19. Fairy tales by The Brothers Grimms
  20. Enid Blyton books

Numbers 18, 19 and 20, I pretend to buy for my children and still sneak in a good read and a chortle. Please, you are free to think whatever, I am still a child at heart 😉

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

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A wordsmith with a vivid imagination, an eager mind and a burning desire to carve out tales. As I journey with my muse to that land of all possibilities and self discovery, I hope my personal evolution will serve as a beacon of inspiration for anyone who chooses to stop by.

46 thoughts on “My Lettered Mind… The Great Book Of Lists Chapter 1.4”

      1. I used to enjoy reading Asterix and TinTin a lot. Of the other books, I’ve read seven of them, as far as I can remember. Sometimes it was when I was at school so I didn’t have a great deal of choice, but I enjoyed them all the same, so perhaps they still count.

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  8. I LOVE your list, and I definitely think I might purchase a few next time I am in the bookstore! I love the term “romantic realist” because I feel like I am very similar to that as well! 🙂

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  10. I am always exciting to read what books stir other people. I have read 8 off your list and quite a few of those are books which stayed on my heart and mine. There are some on your list that are on my personal To Read Classics in the future. P.S. I still read Enid Blyton books and Archie comics as well :P.

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  11. New Books give me a thrill too, I suppose it’s the anticipation of escape into another world.

    Ah! Enid Blyton books marked the beginning of my love for books.

    Lol @ “pretend to buy for my children” XD

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  12. From your poetry one can say that you are Ms Romantica herself but your list of books confirms that. I read some of your favourites in school (because I had to – Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Things Fall Apart) and some others when my Mum was still buying novels for me – The Famous Five series. I also remember reading some of my brother’s Asteriks and Obelix comics.

    As soon as I could buy my own novels, I moved on to James Hadley Chase, Robert Ludlum, Jeffery Archer and all those conspiracy novels. I also loved Mills & Boons, Silhouette Romance and Harlequin Romance; they were more common then when it came to swapping books with others in secondary school and were easy reads.

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