30 Days Book Challenge – Day 21 – My Favorite Author(s)
Enid Blyton
Because she made my childhood beautiful. I could go on and on about the books I read. But sadly, I don’t remember half of them.
I enjoyed. Yes, a lot.
A LOT.
So much that, I had begun to write a book about 5 Brownies named Hy, My, By, Fy, Dy.
Um… dont know what happened to them 😛
J. K. Rowling
How can ‘My favorite author’ not comprise her. It is as though, Enid Blyton realized that I was too grown up for her books and handed me over to JKR. That must be it. Though, I don’t believe that anyone would be too old for books. I still read teenage books. 🙂
I heard about Harry Potter when the 1st movie was released. My dad asked me,
“Do you want to watch Harry Potter?”
“No.”, I never watched English movies then. They never interested me.
“It is good I hear.”
“It’s alright. I really don’t want to.”
Kids my age, many of them had watched it. I thought it must be a story about a Pot maker wala Potter. Why would I want to watch stories about pot making!?
Later, I saw my classmates reading the book. They were discussing animatedly about it. I observed them for a couple of days and the words ‘Magic’, ‘School’, ‘Witch’, ‘Wizard’ etc kept popping up. Finally, I picked up the book from the library, to never stop. 😀
It has been 12 years since I got the letter to Hogwarts. I remain loyal. 😀
Enid blyton was fav during childhood. And about jk rowlings i would say she was rejected by so many publishers before harry potter . but the way she took that rejected and believed in her writing so much that now millions of copies of her book is sold ..
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Oh yes. That was impressive. Her book was published after a publisher’s grandchild read it and asked for more of it. 🙂
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* rejection. Ignore typos here
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hmmm, I guess enid blyton and hardy boys were starter kits for everybody. I started harry potter very late as well but loved some of it…
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Yaay another reader of Harry Potter. 😛 I feel all who have read HP are like family (except for the haters. They are as good as muggles) 😀
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anything magical always awes me… and one gets lost in the world of the make believe….
I dont know your reading tastes, but if you are interested in spiritual / tantric stuff, read the 3 books on Aghora…. It is inspiring…
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I need to come up with such a list too 🙂
Btw, the same thing happened to me – the first time I heard, I thought he was a porter (especially when hearing about a train going to a school :D)
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Then why don’t you also join the 30 day challenge? 😉
Hahaha so I take it that it is either normal to assume things about a title or that we both belong to some weird club 😛
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The problem about challenges is that I am never sure about them 😀
It should be about the weirdness, I would say 😛
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I wasn’t either. I began a challenge earlier and stopped halfway. This is the first one that took me this far. Chumma start & see. You can as well stop if you cant. 😉
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I can take a one day challenge – in that case, I shall be more confident 😀
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Enid Blyton made our childhoods beautiful. Fairies, little stories, the green gardens and the fruit laden trees – your post brought some wonderful memories back. Thank you!! 🙂
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Oh yes. Opening her books were really like entering another world. My pleasure Parul. 🙂 And thanks for leaving your comment. 🙂
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