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no probs Rose tis such a good thread x

Awwww thanks Mel :))

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For Rose :~}

It was a warm, golden-cloudy, lovable afternoon. In the big living-room at Ingleside Susan Baker sat down with a certain grim satisfaction hovering about her like an aura; it was four o'clock and Susan, who had been working incessantly since six that morning, felt that she had fairly earned an hour of repose and gossip. Susan just then was perfectly happy; everything had gone almost uncannily well in the kitchen that day. Dr. Jekyll had not been Mr. Hyde and so had not grated on her nerves; from where she sat she could see the pride of her heart- the bed of peonies of her own planting and culture, blooming as no other peony plot in Glen St. Mary ever did or could bloom, with peonies crimson, peonies silvery pink, peonies white as drifts of winter snow.


Susan had on a new black silk blouse, quite as elaborate as anything Mrs. Marshall Elliott ever wore, and a white starched apron, trimmed with complicated crocheted lace fully five inches wide, not to mention insertion to match. Therefore Susan had all the comfortable consciousness of a well-dressed woman as she opened her copy of the Daily Enterprise and prepared to read the Glen "Notes" which, as Miss Cornelia had just informed her, filled half a column of it and mentioned almost everybody at Ingleside. There was a big, black headline on the front page of the Enterprise, stating that some Archduke Ferdinand or other had been assassinated at a place bearing the weird name of Sarajevo, but Susan tarried not over uninteresting, immaterial stuff like that; she was in quest of something really vital. Oh, here it was- "Jottings from Glen St. Mary." Susan settled down keenly, reading each one over aloud to extract all possible gratification from it.


Mrs. Blythe and her visitor, Miss Cornelia--alias Mrs. Marshall Elliott --were chatting together near the open door that led to the veranda, through which a cool, delicious breeze was blowing, bringing whiffs of phantom perfume from the garden, and charming gay echoes from the vine-hung corner where Rilla and Miss Oliver and Walter were laughing and talking. Wherever Rilla Blythe was, there was laughter.

ian rankin
read them all, not in the right order but hey ho, also doors open , different but for some of the characters sigue into rebus
igor (i think he will come back but not as a cop as mentor for sibboan )

Just read the last in the Rebus series by Ian Rankin. Excellent!

I've just started a biography on The Pogues, just finished Graham Norton's autobiography, before that was "'tis" by Frank McCourt...

Can you see a pattern forming??!

I'm a non-fiction type of girl and love a good autobiography.

yes Rose "the house of dreams" only little Jem was born there how wonderful ~ an Gilbert was so perfect and handsome too ~ My kids had the complete story on video almost as good Mark loved them! m must get on dvd!

Shemp

Hubbie's Relatives were Atkins His Dad worked in Hemsworth Colliery
my hubby also worked in Hemsworth as school leaver but soon got out.
On his mothers side they were called Rollin and also worked in the mines in the area but he is not sure which ones

Hemsworth Colliery was once owned by Earl Fitzwilliam

Hubby said he lived on Pit Row in Fitzwilliam as a young boy then moved to Kinsley which is the next village down. His sister was married to a Beaumont. The Beaumonts were huge land owners around the area also at one stage and had connections with Nostel Priory in Wragby which is just up the road from Fitzwilliam.

Regards
Jackie

Sorry Rose didn't mean to take over your thread

I read the first 'Ann' books when I was young Mel but found Ann as a 'grown up' much later, How lovely for your friend to visit PE Island...I would like to have lived in Ann and Gilberts House of Dreams lol... my copies are also ragged, they were old when I got them but have been well read since also :)

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Rilla is a wonderful character Rose so spirited! I love LM Mongomery ~ I made a mistake earlier "The Rainbow Valley" is in fact book 7 and "Rilla of Ingleside" is book 8. I could not get book 8 for love nor money in England I tried the net ~ I got book 7 on there, but not book 8 ~ fortunatly for me some friends were going to Canada the only problem I would have to wait 6 weeks till their return. My friend very kindly got book 8 on her second day and I recieved a phone call to say the purchase was secure, by day 4 I received a 2nd phone call saying she loved the book so much she had gone and bought the whole set for herself and {Im so jealous} they were going to stay on a further 2 weeks to visit PE Island ~ so now I had to wait 8 weeks but she started with book one "Anne of Green Gables" and by the time she returned had bought and read all of the "road to Avonlea|" series as well n bought me copies! Me and my children have read those books til they are ragged and still find something new in them!

Hi Mel I have most of the LM Montgomery books :)))

and 'Rilla of Ingleside', the one you are about to read is very poignant...I can't read it without crying ,lol when you get to the bit where I do you will know . It is very much a personal journey through WW1 from the perspective of the Canadian women and girls ( and Dog Monday!) waiting at home.

Rose xx

Im reading "the Rainbow Valley" {book 5 in a set of 6} by LM Montgomery its about a little boy Walter who is a very senstitive child he wishes to write poetry and lives with his head in the clouds in a time when boys are expected to labour and work hard in life. The rainbow valley is an iidylic place where he, his siblings and friends go to dream and pretend its a beautiful place, type of place most of us adults have forgotten exists. Walter one day hears pipes playing within his being these pipes get stronger and stronger ~ Walter knows these pipes will seal his destiny ~ as Walter gets older ~ he doesn't know it yet {tis in book 6} he is called to war and to fight and to die book 6 is very sad I will be ready to start it by monday. If anyone gets the chance these books {they are childrens books btw} are well worth the read LM Mongomery has a classic way with her characters and can bring them to life in a very extraordinary way.

These are the books I have read just recently,and all good.

MOTHER OF PEARL..................MAUREEN LEE
THE GAME...........MANDASUE HELLER
SHAFTED.........MANDASUE HELLER
CAUSE FOR ALARM........ERICA SPINDLER
DEATH MESSAGE.........MARK BILLINGHAM
HOLD TIGHT..........HARLAN COBAN
NO-ONE LISTENED.....ISOBEL AND ALEX KERR
THE POINT OF RESCUE......SOPHIE HANNAH
THE SUNFLOWER GARDEN......TORY HAYDEN
THE BONE GARDEN.....TESS GERRITSEN
TELL NO-ONE........HARLAN COBAN

and the one I'm reading at the moment is
COLD IN HAND.........JOHN HARVEY

I've just finished reading Nicci French's "What to do when someone dies". I've read most of their books and this one is just as good. I'm also reading some old Ruth Rendell books that I've missed. She's a great favourite of mine. I also like the Barbara Erskine books.

Sue

Shadows of the Workhouse, by Jennifer Worth. Will make you laugh and cry!

HI Shemp

Thanks for the Black Diamonds recommendation
My husband was born in the village of Fitzwilliam and will be really interested in that one. His family also worked the coal mines in that area.

I'll check if our Library has it

Regards
Jackie

JUST READING A BOOK BY MIKE RIPLEY CALLED , SURVIVING A STROKE



THEN I WILL BE READING HOW TO STOP SMOKING BT ALLEN CARR

Hi Rose

I only read in Bed, a book will last me a month lol.
Love turn of the Century books late 1800s early 1900s not keen on the modern stuff. Catherine Cookson is one of my favourite Authors I think I have been through all of hers. Her books reminds me so much of where I used to live as a child. Working Class area's

My hubby though is a great reader and reads 6 or 7 books a month.
His recommendations are

By Bryce Courtney he enjoys all his books
The Power of one
April's fools day
Jessica
Potato factory
Brother Fish
Sylvia
The Persimmon Tree
Fishing for Stars
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Barack Obama
Dreams from my Father

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Parkinson's Biography

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Just a few he would highly recommend
Depends really on what you like I suppose

Have a Nice Day
Regards
Jackie

Hi George

that book sounds intresting about Marylebone, my dad and his family came from round there.

To Suzian.

I haven't read any of Mark Billingham, before. I wil look him up.


Another of my author's.......slightly different from those whom I have mentioned, is Lee Child... Well worth a read.

Gail