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Would you please consider sharing this list "Great Books For a Lifetime's Reading" by Miss Rosenfeld?? I would love to see it and share it with my book club!
Thanks for your heartwarming post.
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I had an English teacher in year 6 who gave us a similar list. If memory serves it was 6 or 7 pages, printed front and back on a mimeograph machine (OK, now I'm showing my age!). In a 9-week timeframe, we were required to pick 8 books and read one a week. It included books by Tolstoy, the Brontes, etc. I would give anything to have that list again! So, may I echo A_Hallab's request? Would you be willing to share Miss Rosenfeld's list with us all?
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For those of us not familiar with the Australian education system, can you tell us typically how old a student is in year 6? If it is eleven years old I would say your list is a sure-fire way to quench any desire in a student to enjoy reading.
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Goodness, Fadiman does not include any books of the Bible in his list, the Pentatuch, Psalms, Isaiah, Song of Solomon, the Gospels, both Corinthians, Galatians, Romans, Phillipians, Ephesians, et al.
But to keep on topic, the only books I know to have been stolen are college textbooks, in my husband's case a calculus text that was used for more than a year's worth of classes.
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I love this post. I, too, would like to see MaryVirginia Rosenfeld's list. That is, if you don't mind sharing.
Thanks!
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would dearly love to be able to compare ms. rosenfeld's list with fadiman's, if you don't mind going to the trouble! has anyone ever gotten a hold of helene hanff's list of indispensable reads? been trying to get a hold of that one for years...thanks!
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Hello, newcomers, and welcome! I am pleased but not surprised to see that a thread on books garners so much attention. Leo, this site hints that the list you're looking for may be contained within 84, Charing Cross Road. (That is, the books she inquires about.) In a paragraph about that book, this person says, "...Hanff provides a perfect "wish list" of authors..." : web page This site has some interesting personal facts about Ms. Hanff and how this book came into being. BBCOh--Ensorcellor, congratulations on having your post included in the AWAD mail (issue 232)! 
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Ironic! I saw 84 Charring Cross Road as a movie and read Kwaidan as a book! Loved them both. And love this line as well:
"but alas, I was quickly unsuccessful..."
Clever people!
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Hello Retta! Pleased to meet a fellow Kwaidan reader. (I read it too as a book.) Now if I come 84 Charring Cross Road movie I will go see that.
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I didn't see the movie (didn't even know there'd been one), but the book has to be better.
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