tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619064257976283368.post735201487101099355..comments2024-03-08T01:54:50.222-05:00Comments on . . . Even in Australia: Retro Reading: Two Fabulous LinksEven in Australiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04477875616674358434noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619064257976283368.post-7920294680461335372012-01-15T23:21:34.670-05:002012-01-15T23:21:34.670-05:00Interesting. I read Marjorie Morningstar much earl...Interesting. I read Marjorie Morningstar much earlier than 64. Ditto for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Peyton Place was written in the fifties and I never wanted to read it. My third father was one of those Mad Men and we lived in the model for Peyton Place. <br />I think she would have been reading Candy by Terry Southern and Happiness Is a Dry Martini - Johnny Carson <br /> <br />Here are some best sellers from 64: <br />The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carrre <br />Candy - Terry Southern, Mason Hoffenberg <br />Herzog - Saul Bellow <br />Armageddon - Leon Uris <br />The Man - Irving Wallace <br />The Rector of Justin - Louis Auchincloss <br />The Martyred - Richard E. Kim <br />You Only Live Twice - Ian Fleming <br />and from 1965" <br />tion Best Sellers <br />The Source - James A. Michener <br />Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman <br />Herzog - Saul Bellow <br />The Green Berets - Robin Moore <br />Those Who Love - Irving Stone <br />The Man with the Golden Gun - Ian Fleming <br />Hotel - Arthur Haileyy <br /> <br />Nonfiction Best Sellers <br />How to Be a Jewish Mother - Dan Greenburg <br />A Gift of Prophecy - Ruth Montgomery <br />Games People Play - Eric Berne, M.D. <br />Word Aflame - Billy Graham <br />Happiness Is a Dry Martini - Johnny Carson <br />Markings - Dag Hammarskjold <br />My Shadow Ran Fast - Bill Sands <br />Kennedy - Theodore C. Sorenson <br />The Making of the President, 1964 - Theodore H. WhiteThe Pen and Ink Blogspothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01709195512534318571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619064257976283368.post-62998919878447605812012-01-13T21:37:50.720-05:002012-01-13T21:37:50.720-05:00Thanks for sharing these links - I so enjoyed read...Thanks for sharing these links - I so enjoyed reading all the comments on Parrot's post. I especially agree with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. In one of his replies, he mentions how interesting it would be to see a 7th grade reading list from then, and wow - wouldn't it be?Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03805048784056376058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619064257976283368.post-77815515075056159962012-01-13T17:03:31.481-05:002012-01-13T17:03:31.481-05:00These are great ideas, too! I only know Rumer God...These are great ideas, too! I only know Rumer Godden from her books about dolls for a slightly younger audience but you are the second person to mention her teen fiction to me - I'll have to check it out. And I love du Maurier's Rebecca!Even in Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04477875616674358434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619064257976283368.post-13878730896972557402012-01-13T15:12:06.000-05:002012-01-13T15:12:06.000-05:00I enjoyed your links and all the commenter's i...I enjoyed your links and all the commenter's ideas. Two books that came to my mind were 'Catcher in the Rye' which might have piqued her curiosity by 1964 (especially if it were on her parent's bookshelf) and the British author, Rumer Godden's novels. Rumer wrote some of the best teen fiction around in the 50's and 60's and The Greengage Summer (called The Loss of Innocence in the US) was made into a movie in 1961.<br /><br />AND, I wonder if she would've discovered Daphne du Maurier by then? I remember hoovering up her novels as a young teen even though they were written decades earlier. 'Rebecca', 'Jamaica Inn' and Maurier's short stories, 'The Birds' and 'Don't Look Now' still rank as a few of my all time favorites. Hitchcock had made the movies by 1964, too.<br /><br />Thanks for getting me to reminisce! Some older fiction has really stood the test of time.Pippahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12980981759062009668noreply@blogger.com