My 2009 book poll

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Comments

[gatherlilacs]

If you wish...

[helenze]

21! I think that's a record high for me for these polls! You have some of my all-time favourites on your list - The Dud Avocado, The Brontes Went to Woolworths, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, all the Provincial Lady books and Virginia Nicolson's Singled Out.

[gatherlilacs]

Apart from The Dud Avocado, those were all favourites of mine as well :)

[narniadear]

Tell me about Drabble's stuff...did you like it?

[gatherlilacs]

The Red Queen is her 'one-off' novel and I adored the first narrative- I recommend reading that and skipping the modern day counterpart because that doesn't really add anything to the story. I wasn't very convinced by the idea that the protagonist of The Millstone could have a baby and not tell her parents, but as I recently found out that my cousin did something similar, go figure...

[epea_pteroenta]

Am I meant to vote on what I've read, what I liked, what I'd like to read, or what?

[gatherlilacs]

What you've read :)

[epea_pteroenta]

Ah! :) Not read that much, but I have read some!

What is Eva Ibbotson like? I've seen quite a lot of her books in the YA section of my local library and they look quite interesting but I've not round to getting any out yet.

[gatherlilacs]

I love Eva Ibbotson, and I imagine you'd like her too- as long as you don't mind that fact that her heroines are always a bit too good to be true. A Countess Below Stairs (or The Secret Countess) is my favourite of her romances and my favourite of her YA books is The Star of Kazan.

[beautyisme]

Definitely some tempting stuff on here- gives me a few ideas of what to read in 2010!