Booktalk

[listersgirl]

Terry Pratchett Equal Rites

This was excellent fun. Granny plus wizards! Equal Rites is early on in the series (number 3 I think?), so it's probably the first time that Granny Weatherwax was introduced, and I can totally see why people love her so much. Definitely vintage Pratchett.

Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

This is quite possibly the most popular book that I had never heard of. In other words, I had never heard of this book, and then suddenly everywhere I read people were talking about how it's their favourite book ever. So naturally I had to read it. It didn't become my favourite book ever, but it's definitely comfort reading - something to return to when it's grey and drizzly and life is all wrong.

17-year-old Cassandra lives in a crumbling castle with her family and wants to be a writer. In her journal she records her innermost thoughts and deepest secrets during a time of change, brought on by the arrival of the new American owners of her home. It's a wonderfully romantic and thoughtful book, and I loved that Cassandra was both self-aware and naive of her own feelings and the feelings of people around her.

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[listersgirl]

Yup, it was entirely due to Chicklit that I read I Capture the Castle. I get the best recommendations from there.