Entry tags:
- adult books,
- american setting: canada,
- arthur ransome,
- authors: b,
- authors: m,
- authors: r,
- authors: w,
- bessie marchant,
- channel island setting: guernsey,
- discussion: gender,
- discussion: swallows and amazons,
- genre: family story,
- genre: girl detective(s),
- genre: historical,
- genre: mystery,
- genre: orphan adopted,
- genre: romance,
- genre: treading the boards,
- historical setting: victorian,
- may wynne,
- overview: books,
- pamela brown,
- review: book,
- review: brown,
- review: marchant,
- review: ransome,
- review: wynne,
- series: swallows and amazons
OVERVIEW: Christmas reading
Over the holidays, I made the most of the opportunity to just sit down and read books from cover to cover. I started off with The Big Six by Arthur Ransome, which I really don't think I'd read before. ( Read more... )
I worked my way through The Woman in White - I believe I called every character a ninny at some junction.
I should have said the same thing about Family Playbill by Pamela Brown, ( Read more... )
I loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, which was recommended by
callmemadam among others.
And then I read a Bessie Marchant, A Girl of the Northland, ( Read more... )
The latter was an interesting precursor to reading A Cousin from Canada by May Wynne, ( Read more... )
I worked my way through The Woman in White - I believe I called every character a ninny at some junction.
I should have said the same thing about Family Playbill by Pamela Brown, ( Read more... )
I loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, which was recommended by
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And then I read a Bessie Marchant, A Girl of the Northland, ( Read more... )
The latter was an interesting precursor to reading A Cousin from Canada by May Wynne, ( Read more... )