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I see that I wrote up when I started to read books in the Aunt Dimity series, but it cooled into overviews the more I read. Having just read ‘Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil’ by Nancy Atherton, I can understand why and why too it has been a long time since I read a book in the series. The genre is cosy mystery with a supernatural twist. Main character Lori Shepherd has left the US to build a new life in England at the turn of the millennium, one in which aunt Dimity plays an important role. This book ( Read more... )

This week, I’ve been following the twists and turns of Novak Djokovic’s visa problems and attempt to play in the Australian Open. I won’t try to record them all or my views on them, ( Read more... )

I meant to reread ‘Susan Pulls The Strings’ but I couldn’t find my copy (it’s probably in the house, but I can’t be bothered to remove all the furniture I’d need to to find it.) Fortunately, the following was on top f my ‘to be read’ pile:

First Term at Ash Grove: Mabel Esther Allan, Blackie 1988

Reading this book, I felt a slight pang that I hadn’t come across it when it was first published, when I was ( Read more... )

Rose in Bloom – A Sequel to “Eight Cousins”: Louisa M. Alcott, Sampson Low

There’s a picture on the front of my copy of an anachronistic girl (dressed for the period in which this book was published, and one period appropriate illustration before the story begins, which is of an event from the last chapter. I disapprove of both.

In between this sequel and ‘Eight Cousins’ (reviewed here), Rose, her uncle and Phebe, ( Read more... )

Here is a round-up of some things I posted about last year. ( Read more... )

Little Women (2017) BBC One
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6853528/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

Episode 2 (27th of December 2017)

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The last of what I read in Belgium:

Rest and Be Thankful by Helen MacInnes ( Read more... )

The Life of Elves by Muriel Barbary (translated by Alison Anderson) ( Read more... )

Over the Sea to School: Mabel Esther Allan Blackie

[This is a Welsh translation of my review of this book. The original will be posted forthwith.]

Nid oeddwn i’n deall bod y teitl yn chwarae ar y gân ‘Over the Sea to Skye’ tan i fi ddarllen y llyfr. ( Read more... )

As I did last year, I thought I'd do a very subjective overview of things I posted about or should have posted about here. My favourite ( Read more... )

Mullion: Mabel Esther Allan. Hutchinson

My copy of this book features a mostly intact dustjacket featuring two girls and two boys in a motorboat with a castle on an island behind them. If I’d looked at it more carefully, or read the blurb – but I just saw Mabel Esther Allan’s name under a title I didn’t own, so why did I need to? - I wouldn’t have come to the story under the misapprehension that ( Read more... )