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    What's Up in January?

    in General Chat

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    chesilbeach - to stop coughing, put some vicks vap-o-rub on the bottoms of your feet.........seriously.

     

    I'll third or fourth this suggestion. It sounds batty but really seems to work. I would put socks on as well ....stops the Vicks going all over the sheets and keeps it on your feet longer.

    Poppy's English Counties Challenge

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    Thanks for the good wishes everyone :hug: It's not a list I'm going to tackle with any great haste, just one I'd like to work through. I may read an alternative book from some of the counties as some are quite difficult to find.

    Good luck with the county challenge Poppy :hug:You've made a big dent in it already :)

    Are you planning any re-reads? or are you concentrating on fresh reads first? I will be joining you anyway in trying to cross some more of the list.

     

    There's definitely some there I'd like to revisit Poppyshake, quite a few I've read several times aleady, but I'll try to read ones I haven't read first. :blush2:

     

    Good luck with the challenge!

     

    Are you including books previously read in your list, or are these all books you've read as part of the challenge?  If the latter, that's impressive going!

     

    I'd love to impress you by saying I've read all these since the challenge started Willoyd, but alas my nose would probably grow longer or my pants catch on fire or some other dire comeuppance would befall me for telling tall stories. :giggle2: These are just the ones I've read over the course of my reading life.

    Poppy's English Counties Challenge

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by poppy

    (Books read highlighted in green)

     

    1. Bedfordshire - My Uncle Silas by H. E. Bates

    2. Berkshire - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

    3. Bristol - The Misses Mallett by E. H. Young

    4. Buckinghamshire - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

    5. Cambridgeshire - The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers

    6. Cheshire - Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

    7. City of London - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

    8. Cornwall - Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier

    9. Cumbria - Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome [alt. The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg]

    10. Derbyshire - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

    11. Devon - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie or The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

    12. Dorset - Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

    13. County Durham - Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

    14. East Riding of Yorkshire - South Riding by Winifred Holtby

    15. East Sussex - Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne

    16. Essex - The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James

    17. Gloucestershire - Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee

    18. Greater London* - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    19. Greater Manchester - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

    20. Hampshire - Watership Down by Richard Adams

    21. Herefordshire - On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

    22. Hertfordshire - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    23. Isle of Wight - England, England by Julian Barnes [alt. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (this book is only briefly set on the Isle of Wight but that particular section is famously associated with it)]

    24. Kent - The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates

    25. Lancashire - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

    26. Leicestershire - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend

    27. Lincolnshire - The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

    28. Merseyside - An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge

    29. Norfolk - The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley

    30. North Yorkshire - Dracula by Bram Stoker [alt. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot]

    31. Northamptonshire - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

    32. Northumberland - The Stars Look Down by A. J. Cronin

    33. Nottinghamshire - Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

    34. Oxfordshire - The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

    35. Rutland - Set In Stone by Robert Goddard

    36. Shropshire - Summer Lightning by P. G. Wodehouse

    37. Somerset - Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore

    38. South Yorkshire - A Kestral For A Knave by Barry Hines

    39. Staffordshire - The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

    40. Suffolk - The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

    41. Surrey - Emma by Jane Austen or The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

    42. Tyne and Wear - Another World by Pat Barker

    43. Warwickshire - Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

    44. West Midlands - Middlemarch by George Eliot

    45. West Sussex - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

    46. West Yorkshire - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

    47. Wiltshire - Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

    48. Worcestershire - The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

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