Comfort Reading
I met up with Joan McFadden today. Joan is a freelance feature writer who presented a series on parenting for us last year. I'm hoping she'll present a new series for us in a few months.
We got to talking about books and I confessed that I rarely read fiction these days and tend to buy biographies and other factual books.
The exception being Love for Lydia by which I bought on e-bay just after Christmas. I got a first edition 1952 copy for under a tenner and I have no idea whether or not that's a bargain. I was more interested in the story, which I first read many years ago.
As I said to Joan, re-reading favourite books is a bit like eating chocolate. It's comfort reading, if you like, because you know what you're going to get before you start.
Except that with Love for Lydia I got a surprise. It ended in a completely different way from what I remembered.
Anyone else got books they would add to the Library of Comfort Reading? I think there might be a programme idea in this.
