The Reading Joy & Delight Thread

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by arjaybe

Don't try this at home, kids.-)

For some reason, I'm reminded of this old joke:

Good friends help you bury a body...Great friends bring their own shovel and don't ask any questions...

[Ayleth]

StoryGraph has been delighting me lately! I wasn't able to recover my old GoodReads account (it's been years since I could last be called a constant reader), which motivated me to look into alternatives now that the platform is owned by Amazon.

StoryGraph has been (almost) everything I've been looking for! The recommendations look far more considered, and I adore the various rating metrics and the little reading habit summaries in user profiles. I'd love if it were a little more intuitively social, but you can't win 'em all.

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[Renate]

Originally Posted by Ayleth

StoryGraph has been delighting me lately

Hmm, I may have to look at this. I've never used GoodReads but I do have CSV dumps from my OverDrive history. I can probably massage the data if I knew the format.

[svenlind]

Just read and enjoyed an article from The Guardian where several authors tell about books that were important for ther coming of age.
I especially liked the description of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children. It is available here at MR. I am tempted to read it.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by svenlind

Just read and enjoyed an article from The Guardian where several authors tell about books that were important for ther coming of age.
I especially liked the description of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children. It is available here at MR. I am tempted to read it.

The Railway Children is also a movie and it has a sequel (The Railway Children Return).

[Renate]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The Railway Children is also a movie and it has a sequel (The Railway Children Return).

Was that a cheap day return?

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The Railway Children is also a movie and it has a sequel (The Railway Children Return).

AFAIK "The Railway Children Return" isn't E. Nesbit and is a typical attempt to cash in on something famous.
The 1970 film, The Railway Children, was directed by Lionel Jeffries and stars Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter (who had earlier featured in the BBC's 1968 dramatisation of the novel). maybe one of Jenny Agutter's best performances. Not a bad film, but the book is better if you like reading.*

I enjoyed many all her books immensely. She did write some good series.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Nesbit#Works
Virtually all her works are available as free ebooks as they all ought to be PD (d. 1924).

I've not read The House of Arden and only got (and enjoyed) many of her books as an adult.

EDIT
* I did enjoy The Railway Children Film (shown on TV), so eventually got the DVD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ra...m)#Development

Incidentally I think the three short stories of Ian Fleming's "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" are better than James Bond. Of course the Child Catcher part was added for the film and probably by Roald Dahl, who worked on the screenplay for a while (may have been sacked).