The list!

This week I started my list, the list of what I am going to read for my reading challenge. I am quite good with titles of books, but give me a list of authors and I draw a blank.

Well did I ever have a DUH! moment!!

Take a look at this photo, what do you notice??

That this scene was set in a bookstore? That it is full of children???

Yes it is in fact a children's book store. After going on a google mission, I discovered that the majority of the books and authors mentioned in this film are/have written children's books! Well Duh LeeAnn!

Yay! This challenge just got so much easier lol.

 Not only are they mostly children's books, but they are books that I have in fact read, as a child. I am so super excited to be re living these memories. I can't wait to get started.

The list

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Anne of Greengables - L.M. Montgomery

Betsy's wedding - Maud Hart  Lovelace

Ballet shoes - Noel Streatfield

Boy & Going Solo - Roald Dahl

Charlotte's web - E.B. White

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Madeline books - Ludwig Bemelmans

Other authors mentioned were,

Beatrix Potter and Dr Seuss - I will read these books with K I think. We have a few in the house.

A few that I was unsure of were - Kay Thompson,  George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Jefferson and Shel Silverstein. Does anyone know of these people? Do you have any suggestions? Even google didn't bring up anything I could see.

I am so excited to be starting with Charlotte's web. I remember reading this in Primary 4 (equivilant of 3rd grade) I remember crying at the end and trying to pretend I wasn't crying because of the book LOL. I still cry at everything.

I think I will need to take Kathleen's advice and read them all with a box of tissues!

On a side note, I have lost my camera!! Has anyone seen it?? I am open to suggestions! I need it tomorrow as I am going on a girls day out! Drinks, giggles, food  and then to the cinema to see Sex in the city!!

Woo hoo can't wait! 

A challenge!

Last week I was cruising around blogland, as I like to do, and I came across a button on Mrs Spoonful's very sweet blog. It was a button I could just not resist clicking on!

( Here is the link because I am not clever enough to work out the button , sorry )

I may have mentioned it once or twice, but I LOVE this film. I love the characters, I love the sweetness, I love the New York setting.

Sigh.

So anyway, once I had clicked on this cute button, it took me to a site where there was a challenge running. Now this challenge actually began back on Jan 1st, but I emailed the sweet lady who is in charge and I am allowed to join in! Yay!

The challenge is basically to read as many of the books, featured/mentioned throughout the film, as you can throughout the year.

I am super excited to get started! I love to read, although I am not exactly into the classics. I am a Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Cecelia Ahern kind of gal.

I am determined to read Pride and Prejudice during this challenge but I don't think I will start with something quite so, um  challenging.

And  until I ask the ever so nice Librarian if I can return to the library to borrow books, after I was struck off for having books out for too long, (oops) and promise to return them on time, I will need to use what I have. And what do I have on hand?? Well it just so happens I have a son who adores Roald Dahl books and has the whole collection.
Back in my childhood I read every children's book written by this fine man , but it will be fun to take a trip down memory lane and enjoy the magic that he can create with his amazing words. I will start with Boy, as I think that is the one that Kathleen is reading as the Story Lady in the film.

Here is a little bit of one of my favourite feel good films, it even has a little bit of Christmas in it!

It's like it was made for me!