Reading books to match the weather

[booklover]

Greetings everyone!

Sorry to hear about the most appalling weather in the UK at the moment.
In Australia, it's quite the opposite, with the most oppressive heat throughout January and continuing into February.

Anyway, the focus on the weather got me thinking: do you read certain books to suit the weather conditions? For example, you read Five Go Off in a Caravan in the summer.

Here are some great books that I think everyone should curl up with in front of a fire during Britain's current winter chill:

Five Get Into a Fix
Five Go to Smuggler's Top
The Rat-a-Tat Mystery
The Mountain of Adventure
The Enchanted Wood
Chimney Corner Stories

There are no doubt many others.

And if you want to think about warmer times, then how about The River of Adventure, The Ship of Adventure, and Five on Finniston Farm, just to name a few.

[Snubby]

Interesting topic, Booklover!

Yes, I did read certain books in a specific weather. When I was young, I had one tradition I used to follow, i.e. on the hottest day of my summer holiday, I would put my legs into a bucket of water, and sit there reading The Secret Mountain. With Thailand's summer heat and Blyton's writing, I could half 'feel' an African desert around my body! (In fact, my tradition for summer school breaks was to bring out my Blyton collection and reread the whole set. But The Secret Mountain was the special one for the hottest day!)

As for winter, I loved to read The Rat-a-Tat Mystery and Five Get Into a Fix and wonder how snow was like and how fun it would be playing those winter games.

Another book that gives me a feeling of weather is The Ring O' Bells Mystery. We don't have a spring season in Thailand but I always related it to our rainy season that follows the horrid summer. So, any day it's raining outside, I sang Diana's poem: 'Oh Maytime, fold thy fleeting wing, And let it be forever spring!'

For now, there's no season in Singapore, neither do I have anymore school break. However, those days are still clear in my memory!

[Philip Mannering]

For now, there's no season in Singapore...

That surprises me! 'No' season???? Is it cold or is it hot?

[Anita Bensoussane]

The Mystery of the Strange Bundle has become a favourite winter re-read for me over the years. And I can't possibly read it until I've baked some macaroons and got in a supply of peppermint bull's-eyes and drinking chocolate!

I like to read The Sea of Adventure in May. I remember reading it for about the third time as a child and feeling quite excited when Jack said, "Do you know, it's May the fifth already!" because the date really was May 5th.

Anita

[Rob Houghton]

I particularly liked to read 'Secret Seven Fireworks' and 'Good Work Secret Seven' around about November 5th, which is when they're set, and I liked reading 'The Mystery of the Missing Necklace' when it was hot and sunny and 'Rat-a-tat Mystery' when it's snowing. I'm not really a fan of reading a book set in the winter when its the summer, but for some reason i don't mind reading the ones set in Summer in the winter!

Favourite winter stories are Rat-a-tat, The Secret Seven, Five Get into a Fix and Mystery of the Secret Room

[Daisy]

Now isn't this strange! I am the opposite, as I like to read about hot summer days when it's cold and miserable outside, and in a hot summer I will happily relish the snow scenes in "The Rat-a-Tat Mystery" and other winter- based books, just to cool me down!

[Julie2owlsdene]

The surrounding snow covered hills at the moment are reminding me of The Rat A Tat
Mystery.

My preferences are like those of Daisy, I love to read the summer books when its cold and miserable outside as they always cheer me up and seem to bring summer much closer.

Missing Necklace and Invisible Thief is a favourite winter read.

[Lucky Star]

No doubt but that reading a book which is set in the type of weather conditions one is currently experiencing does add a certain layer of empathy with the predicaments of the characters. The Rat-a-Tat Mystery is a great one for the snow and also Five Get into a Fix. In hot weather something like Five go off in a Caravan is good and Smuglers Top is a good one for dreary foggy days.

[Snubby]

For now, there's no season in Singapore...

That surprises me! 'No' season???? Is it cold or is it hot?

Neither! Just rain always