I guess I wasn't completely accurate when I told you, dear reader, that I don't read books you would find shelved in Fiction/Literature in the bookstores. Because I do own about 40 linear inches of Angela Thirkell. I discovered* Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire novels when I was visiting my mother in Paris. She had been encouraging …
Continue reading 365 Books: Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell
My mother discovered this book and kept it on her bedside table, along with West with the Night (which I have not read), Out of Africa (which I have not read), and The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (which I will write about some time). This stack of books tells you almost everything you …
Continue reading 365 Books: Any Four Women Could Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen
I'm reading what, for crying out loud... My grandmother, who gave me a lot of my favorite books when I was growing up, was a reader. Their house in Davy had a lot of coffee table books, places that my grandparents had traveled, but if you wanted to read, you had to dig into my …
Continue reading 365 Books: Miss Armstead Wears Black Gloves by Marian Devon
Yesterday my husband and I made the mistake of watching the movie, The Giver. Within 5 minutes, our expectations for the movie were significantly lowered but I insisted on finishing it: I haven't read The Giver but I had read something else that I thought she had written, when I was a little girl (but …
Continue reading 365 Books: Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Perhaps you saw the BBC/PBS series, The Durrells in Corfu, which is sort of based on the stories in this book. It disappointed me. But it would have been impossible, I think, to capture what makes this book special in a TV series - it would need to have long stretches of wildlife photography, straight …
Continue reading 365 Books: My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
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