Comments on: Monday http://kayray.org/2023/02/27/monday-48/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 06:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 By: Hugh Baldwin http://kayray.org/2023/02/27/monday-48/#comment-637899 Thu, 02 Mar 2023 06:08:00 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=7429#comment-637899 You have a very warm and ‘comfortable’ reading voice, and the additional asides and small stumbles enhance rather than detract from this, so it is a great pleasure to listen to and has re-introduced me to some books that I haven’t read for a long time. I have now also listened to your reading of the Dylan Thomas book, and I am currently listening to ‘Half Magic’. I was very surprised to see that you included the ‘Apple Stone’, as very few people I know have even heard of this book, or its author. Where I used to work we had a special collection of these ‘old’ children’s books, and I used to borrow them (including the Apple Stone) for my eldest daughter :)

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2023/02/27/monday-48/#comment-637856 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:03:28 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=7429#comment-637856 In reply to Hugh Baldwin.

I’m a compulsive book-sharer too, and I forgot to say how thrilled I am that you enjoyed The Apple Stone. It’s one of the best books ever written, imho. It’s glorious.

]]> By: Hugh Baldwin http://kayray.org/2023/02/27/monday-48/#comment-637747 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 06:18:55 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=7429#comment-637747 Also the children’s books by Alan Garner, such as ‘The Weirdstone of Brisingamen’ the ‘Moon of Gomrath’ and ‘Elidor’, or John Masefield’s ‘The Midnight Folk’ and ‘Box of Delights’. These are all on the Internet Archive, and there are radio drama adaptations there or on Youtube for some of these, if you prefer to just listen at the moment. I am sorry, I am a librarian – a compulsive book sharer! :)

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2023/02/27/monday-48/#comment-637705 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:17:03 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=7429#comment-637705 In reply to Hugh Baldwin.

Thanks for the suggestions, Hugh! I’ll look into those books. I’ve not read any of them yet!

]]> By: Hugh Baldwin http://kayray.org/2023/02/27/monday-48/#comment-637696 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:07:04 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=7429#comment-637696 Hi, I very much enjoyed your readings of the ‘Dark is Rising’ series and the ‘Apple Stone’ (so much better than audiobooks). If you have not already come across them, then I think you would probably like the books by Lucy Boston (The Children of Green Knowe series) and those by Philippa Pierce (Tom’s Midnight Garden, and Minnow on the Say, amongst others). You can find them on the Internet Archive. Hugh

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