As an aside, I'm re-reading old favourites. Many of my words will pop out of the books I'm getting re-acquainted with.
Just about to re-read 'I know why the caged bird sings. by Maya Angelou'
Just finished: Christmas at Cold Comfort farm by Stella Gibbons. Hadn't read this one before but it jumped off the shelves in Waterstones. I love Cold Comfort Farm, and this is a selection of short stories by the same author with some of them featuring some of the same charactes.
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Now re-read. It is amazing, but hard-going. Lots of use of dialect in speech, and doesn't contain much by way of light relief. Should be required reading though. Despite being written in the thirties in the US, in specific conditions much of it feels as if it is talking to us now in 2012.
The list includes:
More Steinbeck
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Catch 22
I know why the Caged bird sings
1984
Brave New World
