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- adult books,
- american setting: usa,
- authors: a,
- authors: r,
- book-shopping,
- celtic setting: cornwall,
- discussion of girls' education,
- genre: mystery,
- genre: non-fiction (history),
- genre: romance,
- genre: supernatural,
- jane robinson,
- links: authors,
- nancy atherton,
- non-fiction log,
- review: atherton,
- review: books,
- review: j. robinson,
- reviews: plural,
- series: aunt dimity
OVERVIEW: Some summer reads
Greetings! I've been away, yes on a beach, and here are a couple of the books that I read that I think you'd enjoy too.
Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective: Nancy Atherton. Penguin 2009.
This is an omnibus edition of the first two novels in the 'Aunt Dimity' series, which I think I came across in an Amazon 'if you like this book, why not this' way?. Well, I now have another series to collect. The blurb describes them as 'cosy' mysteries, and they very much are, with a slight paranormal element, romance and growing. self confidence for their heroines. They also fit in with a very American type of Anglophilia.
Aunt Dimity's Death ( Read more... )
The website for the series Aunt Dimity's world should give you some idea of the flavour of the books.
I also read Bluestockings: Jane Robinson Penguin 2010.
It was an impulse buy - I had underpacked and so visited the airport's WHSmiths in a flustered mood, but was high-minded enough to buy this. I'm glad I did, it was quite a few of the things that the similarly themed Willingly to School wasn't. ( Read more... )
Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective: Nancy Atherton. Penguin 2009.
This is an omnibus edition of the first two novels in the 'Aunt Dimity' series, which I think I came across in an Amazon 'if you like this book, why not this' way?. Well, I now have another series to collect. The blurb describes them as 'cosy' mysteries, and they very much are, with a slight paranormal element, romance and growing. self confidence for their heroines. They also fit in with a very American type of Anglophilia.
Aunt Dimity's Death ( Read more... )
The website for the series Aunt Dimity's world should give you some idea of the flavour of the books.
I also read Bluestockings: Jane Robinson Penguin 2010.
It was an impulse buy - I had underpacked and so visited the airport's WHSmiths in a flustered mood, but was high-minded enough to buy this. I'm glad I did, it was quite a few of the things that the similarly themed Willingly to School wasn't. ( Read more... )