In the Slate article I linked to yesterday, there was a link to guysread.com. It’s an interesting site–snazzy, even. It has a neat search engine. You put in a topic or author or title and it pulls up books to match.
When I posted yesterday, I wasn’t aware that Jen, over at Jen Robinson’s Book Page, had a post and a discussion on this very same article last week. Check it out.
Becky commented on yesterday’s post, that boys like to identify with winners. She said especially boys like to see underdogs win. That reminds me of some books that I loved as a kid. They are poor fare, but back when they were first published (1860′s and 70′s) they were very popular with young boys. And a hundred years later I was eating them up. Sure, they were all pretty much the same story–poor, good boy walks true and is rewarded with riches at the end–but then so were the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy books all the same and I loved those as well.
Anyone able to guess who the author of these rags to riches books were?
For bonus points, what church was he ordained in and why was he booted out?
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can’t wait to find out, but i don’t have a guess!
Are you talking about Tom Jones?
Anyway, thanks for mentioning my post!
Have a great weekend! Jen