By Slanted Light

Oooh... now I *finally* have a working computer keyboard instead of a duff one I can actually face typing again! This got me thinking too.... I've definitely read all the Agatha Christie's- inc her non-detective ones, and I have 70-odd in all I think, actually, my favourite is probably one written under the name of Mary Westmacott called Absent in the Spring, which- if you've not read it- is almost a psychological thriller in a quiet way... I've read just about everything that Malcolm Saville wrote, and Lorna Hill, Pamela Brown, etc.. Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School books, and quite a lot (but definitely not all) Enid Blyton's- I called her *Endi* Blyton as a kid though *g*.
I've saved many 100's of 'classic' kids books that I really loved, for my horde, but tbh, they've not really bothered with much of it. Harry Potter and Jacqueline Wilson are more their bag. (Although I've read all those too!...X-) ) I loved the Moomin books too- although some were a bit scary as well- especially 'Comet...' Gave me nightmares, that one did! Oh, and the Brumby books by Elyne Mitchell, and Mary O'Hara's Flicka series. God, this is turning into a reminiscence post rather....sorry! Tend to find an author that I like, and read everything they've written (in fandom too) so there are mystery/ crime/ thriller writers like Robert Goddard who write an awful lot, and I try to keep up with them *g*. I've read all The Saint and James Bond books- of which there are many, in the case of Charteris- of wildly varying quality! (;-) ) Ellis Peters and Peter Tremayne are decent and prolific too and that Victorian archaeologist series... er......Elizabeth Peters? and... I've taken over this entire thread like a loon! How did I ever manage to do anything but read as a kid? Yet all my memories are of being outside.. and as a teen it was Mary Stewart, Jane Duncan, Edmund White, and all my dad's bleak Russian novels...
And now? For years After Kids, my brain was too fried to manage much but thrillers and the better class of light fiction -heh, but now I occasionally have a spare braincell to rub against the other one, of course, heading the list is Pros FF and can I just mention that you, BSL, are one of my all-time fave Pros writers? or is that just too, *too* creepy and grovelly? ;-) I've read and loved ALL yours too... and, yes- I should have put this whole damn post under a cut--------------------------