To celebrate World Book Day, which is today, 3 March 2011, here is a delightful book that shares the delights of books!
“It’s A Book” by Lane Smith
So what book do you like most to read and then re-read?
My favorite book?
My next?
Or is it Jane Eyre?
Or Pride and Prejudice?
Or Middlemarch?
Or A Prayer for Owen Meany?
Or the Complete Works of Shakespeare?
Your turn! What’s your favorite book? – you are entitled to one Jane Austen and then choose one other …. if you can so limit yourself!
Jane Austen in Vermont 
I’m currently reading persuasion, so I’m happy to see it’s the first book you picked :)
anyway, my favorite book….wow! how can I answer that?
I can narrow down my list to at least 5 books…
obviously, pride and prejudice. the book thief by markus zusak, time traveler’s wife by audrey niffenegger, the girls by lori lansens and my sister’s keeper by jodi picoult.
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A Lovely list you have made! – the Book Thief was brilliant and remains on best seller lists 2 years later. Hope you are enjoying Persuasion and will add it to your favorites list… let me know!
Deb
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Definitely Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice. I loved Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons and I will pick up just about any biography or books about fashion, cooking, or those set in Belle Epoch France. Interestingly, nonfiction rarely interests me.
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Thanks for your thoughts Vic! – I love biography as well, prefer it now over most contemporary fiction – why is that do you suppose?
Deb
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Persuasion and Jane Eyre. I read so little contemporary fiction that I wouldn’t know a contemporary novel to select, though I do read a lot of non fiction and I loved Outliers.
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I agree about contemporary fiction! – I am flunking my regular book group, as I sit quietly in the corner and mutter “can we read another classic?” and am politely shunned! – but I do love some contemporary writings, when I periodically escape my 19th century mode…
Thanks for stopping by – Persuasion and Jane Eyre are perfect choices!
Deb
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This is puzzling, I thought UNESCO had signaled April 23 as the World Day Book, as far as I understand March 3 is only Book Day in UK and Ireland.
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Oops I meant World Book Day
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Yes, you are correct – I was following the UK World Book Day, because it seems, since this is a Jane Austen blog, to be where I spend most of my time, imagined or otherwise!
Sorry I confused you! – will do a repeat on the proper day!
Thanks for stopping by,
Deb
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Pride and Prejudice for certain.
And as for the rest I just can’t limit myself !!
To Kill a Mockingbird (I’m an Alabama girl for the most part so this book is a given and I think it is one the most perfect books ever written.)
The Sound and the Fury (Another southerner, I know, but the man is an artist with the English language.)
Jane Eyre – another perfect jewel of a book
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (no explanation necessary)
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Hello Louisa, – I agree about To Kill a Mockingbird, so thank you for bringing it up – a perfect book indeed! [and a perfect movie as well!]
Thank you for stopping by,
Best,
deb
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I am late, but cannot resist:
Persuasion and Fahrenheit 451
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