Books I've read and some I've enjoyed -
Title | Author | When | Description |
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To hear a nightingale | 10/02 | ||
The copper beech | Maeve Binchy | 10/02 | |
The Scarlet Feather | Maeve Binchy | 10/02 | |
Tara Road | Maeve Binchy | 11/02 | |
Evening class | Maeve Binchy | 10/02 | |
The lilac bus | Maeve Binchy | 10/02 | |
The Princes of Ireland | Edward Rutherfurd | 00/03 | |
Papa's Wife | Thyra FerrÈ Bjorn | 12/03 | Stories of the Swedish Franzon family, Papa is a minister. |
Dear Papa | Thyra FerrÈ Bjorn | 01/03 | Stories of the Swedish Franzon family, Papa is a minister. |
Virginie | Maruice Denuziere | 12/03 | Civil war era. Great story but hard to find. 640 pgs in paperback. Story of the South (Louisiana). Some dry history, but much rich personal info |
Bagatelle | Maruice Denuziere | 01/04 | Pre-Civil War story set in Louisiana. Great! |
Chelsea: The Story of a Signal Dog | Paul Ogden | 01/04 | A fun yet educational story of a deaf person gaining additional independence, teaching and learning from his canine working companion. |
Lake News | Barbara Delinsky | 01/04 | A great story about news media gone right with a bit of romance and NE history... |
Coast Road | Barbara Delinsky | 02/04 | Set mostly in Big Sur. Great reading, could barely put it down. |
Three Wishes | Barbara Delinsky | 02/04 | Good love story set in Vermont. Heart-tugging is a word for it, don't read it if you are overly sentimental. |
The Proud Breed | Celeste De Blasis | 03/04 | A Three-Generational Saga of California. Loved it. Page turner if you like historical fiction. |
Theirs Was The Kingdom | R. F. Delderfield | 03/04 | 2nd Volume of the saga of Adam Swann: his business, his family and country. |
Give Us This Day | R. F. Delderfield | 03/04 | Final volume of the saga of Adam Swann. Great historical fiction with family story intertwined. |
God is an Englishman | R. F. Delderfield | 03/04 | First volume of the saga of Adam Swann. Great historical fiction with family story intertwined. |
Elaine the Fair | Timothy Taylor | 04/04 | "Lusty rewrite of the Robin Hood legend" Couldn't put it down. |
Green Rose of Furley | Helen Corse Barney | 04/04 | Quaker tale of one family during the Civil War. |
Jade - A Novel of China | Patt Barr | 04/04 | Adventurous tale of two orphans in early china. Torn between UK and chinese sympathies. some erotica. |
Forefathers | Nancy Cato | Great story of Australia and it's early inhabitants to current days. | |
The Camerons | Robert Crichton | England, Highlands, Miners. A very touching story of a miner's daughter. Loved it. I want more!!! | |
All Over the Town | R. F. Delderfeld | A great story about a small town after the war and the interpersonal going's on. Loved it. This author is great. | |
Saint Bruno's Abbey | Phillipa Carr | How old was this writer. ok story.... | |
The Midwife | Gay Courter | 12/04 | Interesting story of a Jewish Midwife and pogrom survivor set in Russia and NY |
The War of the Flowers | Tad Williaims | 1/05 | Gripping fantasy with mortals, fairies, sprites and other folk. Excellent! |
Otherland | Tad Williams | 2/05 | Gak. lots of pages, too much detail and jumping around, interesting near the end. |
Under the Tuscan Sun | 2/05 | MMMM..... Wonderful, marvelous, tasty mind pics, and recipes. Thumbs Up! I'd love to move next door! | |
The World from Rough Stones | Malcolm MacDonald | 03/05 | A must read. should be on every High school curriculum. Joyous, smart, full of life learning.Celebration of a smart women with Mathematical skills, romance, history |
The Rich Are With You Always | Malcolm MacDonald | 03/05 | See above. the 2nd in the story. very smart reading. Read between the lines. |
Wild Grows the Heather in Devon | Michael Phillips | 04/05 | I REALLY wanted to like this triliogy. Very Christian. Very... I got all three books and am giving up on book one. (I don't normally do this.) Way too wordy for me. Great for folks wanting to learn more about God as interpreted by Mr. Phillips's characters and some little twit named Amanda. Yawn. |
Mercedes Lackey | |||
Mercedes Lackey | |||
Wallis: The Novel | Anne Edwards | 07/05 | liked it, though it ended rather abruptly. |
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants | Ann Brashares | 07/05 | read it in a day. very fun. have requested the rest of the series from the library! |
The Vineyard | Barbara Delinsky | 07/05 | Very good ! Read it if you know any dysfunctional family members. Set in RI, from Pearl Harbor til today. |
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood | Ann Brashares | 07/05 | Another one day read, but very eloquent. |
Paint The Wind | Cathy Cash Spellman | 07/05 | FAT and Great reading!!! The West, the Apache, Mining, love and occult. LOVED it. |
Dancing at the Rascal Fair | Ivan Doig | 08/05 | Cool story of Early Montana and some Scotsmen that settled in and became sheep owners, with a bit of poetry and romance tucked in. |
Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood | Ann Brashares | 08/05 | Great! As usual |
Keep In Touch: Letters, Notes and More from the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Ann Brashares | 08/05 | good, but a blatant plug for the movie. |
The Rim of the Prarie | Bess Streeter Aldrich | 10/05 | Great! Set in Nebraska, romance and a bit of mystery |
Katherine Wentworth | D. E. Stevenson | 10/05 | mystery and romance in Scotland |
The House On The Cliff | D. E. Stevenson | 12/05 | mystery and romance in Devonshire |
Cane River | Lalita Tademy | 12/05 | epic novel of four generations of Afric-American women based on fact. |
Daughter of Fortune | Isabel Allende | 12/05 | From Chile to California, love and adventure 1843-1849 |