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Started by: seabhac Sent: 15/02/2001 12:48 6 Replies
OK, this question has just been raised on another list, and I thought it was a good one, so I'll put it up here as well...
Which one book would everyone take to their Desert Island? It doesn't have to be a pagan- or craft- oriented.
I haven't decided on mine yet...
Seabhac

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From: Akasha Sent: 15/02/2001 13:52 1 of 6
id take a copy of the sunday times and build a house from it, like a wasps nest where you chew it up an then make like a big papier mache hut. i think this could prove very useful for preventing sunstroke

lots of love and aftersun

kash

From: scott Sent: 15/02/2001 19:51 2 of 6
"Be a Goddess!" by Francesca De Grandis. It has soooo!!!!! changed my life!

Scott.

From: Saffron Sent: 15/02/2001 20:09 3 of 6
Mine would be Laurie Lee's 'As I Stepped Out One Midsummer Morning'

Its a wonderful autobiographical story set in the 1930's of how Laurie Lee left home in the West Country one morning, a young man in his late teens and walked to London. He stayed there for a year and saved enough for a passage to Vigo in Northern Spain. He then walked across Spain to Madrid and then down to the Southern Coast of Spain, and on to Gibralta.

It is a story that had me spellbound and conjured up wonderful images of rural Spain, images that still exist if you get off the beaten track in Spain.

It is a journey that has inspired me, and when I can afford to take more than the standard 2 weeks off work I will go to Vigo and follow his journey (by car I hasten to add! Im not into walking a thousand miles). I have a large map of Spain on one wall with his route marked out, and on cold dark winter days it is wonderful to conjure up the images so firmly implanted in my head by his wonderful story.

From: Star Sent: 16/02/2001 13:56 4 of 6
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. I love it, I always take it with me whenever I leave Britain (I have worked in various places abroad). It reminds me what it means to be quintessentially British, I love to laugh at our idiosyncrasies, and why I love this place, home.

From: Mel Sent: 16/02/2001 15:48 5 of 6
i think mine would have to be either 'thornyhold' by mary stewart, which is about a woman who inherits her cousins reputation as a healer, or, 'chocolat' by joanne harris, which i found was a very funny book about the church verses chocolate.

From: Akasha Sent: 16/02/2001 16:10 6 of 6
ok, ive been watching "shipwrecked" on telly and recon i can make my hut out of palm leaves, so i think i will take "sophie's world" with me.
i cant remember who it is by but basically its about philosophy and is much fun for messing with your mind. and also learning about ancient philosophers ideas, some of which were fairly flakey, some are ok, but they are presented in a way that is easy to follow when you have sunburn and cant think straight. unfortunatly the end is a bit shit, but i know that now so its ok.

"last night i dreamt i wa a butterfly and now im not sure if i am [a human] who dreamt of being a butterfly or a butterfly who is dreaming of being [a human]"

profound huh?

yours muddlingly
kash