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Here’s my annual round-up of highlights from 2018 posts. ( Read more... )

Last year's post.

Captain Anne: Dorita Fairlie Bruce Sprong Books (Halycon Library)

It’s been a while since I posted, because, sadly for me, it’s been a while since I read any books. I’m going to be making up for that over the next few days, I hope and intend.

As I’ve probably said before, I came across the Springdale books by Dorita Fairlie Bruce before her Dimsie series, ( Read more... )

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/163287.html

Dimsie Carries On: Dorita Fairlie Bruce Oxford University Press

This is my post about buying the Dimises I've been reading and reviewing of late. (Tes, it can easily take over six months between the purchase of a book and the reading of it in my world.) Closer scrutiny has shown that I've got reprints, so there must have been other dust jackets originally. Even closer scrutiny (ie the dust jacket breaking up somewhat) has revealed that it's two sided, the other side was a dust jacket for another book entirely (Adventure for Two by Elsie J. Oxenham). I don't think I've come across that before!

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Dimsie Goes to School: Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Oxford Univerity Press. Reprinted, 1949.

This is the first of three Dimsie books that I have to read...

And so, we begin at the beginning. I read my first Dimsie book after reading a couple of Springdale books, and my impression of the Jane Willard Foundation school was that it was always raining in comprison, and that they were always doing drills (which sounded beastly) and what kind of a name is the 'Jane Willard Foundation', wondered I. Ouf, typing it out, that opinion comes on a bit stronger than I expected. But rereading and reading more Dimsie books toned it down, and I'm glad to have the opportunity to get a fuller picture of Dimsie and 'Jane's.'. Another thing is that I was used to Dimsie as a Senior, so having her be in the Hilary Garth role is strange.

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edited for typos on 12.1.10

Today's haul = nine books. Most of them were courtesy of a second-hand bookshop where, to my delight (truly, I was grinning like a fool for a good bit after that), I got three Dimsie books. There were more DFBs, but I already owned them. These are the first Dimsies that I own with a dust jacket, which was nice satisfaction for my curiosity, although they're all the same drawing and less colourful than the Springdale dust jacket that I own. Speaking of, I am most excited about getting Dimsie Carries On because it links both series, although the copy was priced down because it was in a worse condition.

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REVIEW: Captain Anne

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REVIEW: Dimsie Goes To School

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