The Enid Blyton Society

My new year resolutions? Well, my first one is to be “more involved" in the forums, I am rarely online!
Secondly, I have an enormous amount of books I really want to read. In my “to-read" list I have included the ones that were abandoned in a hidden shelf, gathering dust, until I rediscovered them a few days ago. Perhaps it would be interesting to see if any of you have set any reading goals. What is the first book you have started in 2017?

I hope you manage to find more time to spend on the forums, Maria Elena! Your "signature" about Snubby recognising a good person when he sees one is one of my favourite lines from the Barney mysteries.

My first book of 2017 is Hollow City, the second title in Ransom Riggs' "Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children" series. The story is weird and wonderful and unnerving and the pages are liberally sprinkled with curious old photographs which add to the creepy atmosphere.

I tried reading Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, Anita, but I really couldn't get into it. In fact, it is the reason why I am in a reading slump at the moment! Did you enjoy the first book?

Anita Bensoussane wrote:I hope you manage to find more time to spend on the forums, Maria Elena! Your "signature" about Snubby recognising a good person when he sees one is one of my favourite lines from the Barney mysteries.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
Enid Blyton, The Rubadub Mystery (Barney Mysteries, #4)

A very powerful lines from Enid Blyton! There are spiteful people out there. People who love to pick a fight. Hope all of us will recognise them from far away so that we could avoid them when they come near us. Nice and sweet outside with blackened heart inside.

7upromana01 wrote:I tried reading Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, Anita, but I really couldn't get into it. In fact, it is the reason why I am in a reading slump at the moment! Did you enjoy the first book?

I did enjoy it, Abi. The reader is introduced to the main situation very gradually so lots of things seem extremely mystifying at first, but they slowly become clearer and I enjoyed the bizarreness and unexpectedness of it all.

I hope you find something else that holds your interest. You could always try Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children again at some point. Sometimes a book seems better at a second attempt, for some reason!