What Enid Blyton book are you reading right NOW!

The books! Over seven hundred of them and still counting...
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Currently reading The Mystery of the Strange Messages. A first edition, too! :D
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Nature Lover's book Number 2 - Country Walks with Uncle Merry

I hope to finish it tomorrow.
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Naughty Amelia Jane. I'm reading a chapter a night to my daughter. I think I'm enjoying it just as much as she is. :D
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Right now, I'm reading some of the Secret Seven's I've never read before.
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I'm reading Valley of Adventure. Spiffing stuff!
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Five Go To Mystery Moor. I started from No. 1 a few weeks ago, despite readng all the FF many times I have never actually read them one after another in order. I think I am going to start on Secret Seven after I finish The FF series :)
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In The Fifth at Malory Towers
Abi.

Still trialling other writers, but will eventually go back to reading a bit of Blyton! Just too many books...

Occasionally will pop in! xx
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Just started Sea of Adventure and I'm very amused that the children are complaining about having to go on holiday instead of going back to school!
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I've just finished the first MT book as written by Pamela Cox: "New Term at Malory Towers". Fully intend reading the other five by her but have been temporarily distracted by Hamish Macbeth. I think my mission this year, if I can get away from Hamish, will be to re-read a ton of EB books, I'm sure there are loads available on the Kindle - if I could be sure to not get the "updated for the modern world" versions. Either that or to find a second hand bookshop around here somewhere, or a charity shop, and pick up the versions I read in the 70s.
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Just started "Island of Adventure" the first in the series. It still surprises
me that 2 sets of children have only one parent between them - Philip
and Diana's mother (and she doesn't look after them as she runs a business).
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I'm currently reading a Playways Annual which has a story by Enid Blyton in it - The Pole Star Family. As it's a an annual it obviously contains many other writers in it, and it's interesting to see what other styles were around at the same time Enid was writing.
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I'm currently reading the facsimiles which I bought from the Society Stall at the E.B. Day. I've read Tricked on the Track, and am now on The Wonderful Adventure. :)

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I've just finished Tricked on the Track as well. I enjoyed it a lot. Very good value too; three stories for £3.00. I would have bought a whole collection of those booklets but I ran out of cash.
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Just about to finish Five Go To Billycock Hill, have found it quite souless this time around for some reason :( Will be starting Five Get Into a Fix next.
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I am reading one of the booklets from the Society stall too. "Tales of Romance: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table", incredible to think this stirring prose has not seen the light of day since 1928.
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