An indescript antique shop.Set along an indescript street. Filled with things not borrowed.Filled with things not blue. But filled with shadows and secretsAnd one man who keeps the difference. Step inside Mr. Mortimer’s Antique Store.He has the one item you always dreamt of. Review 3* This is a...
Discovered on Libbeth's profile.The first day of term has a flavour that is all its own; a whiff of lazy days behind the foretaste of the busy future.2.5*
Set in Caxley, a quiet country town, The Caxley Chronicles follow two intertwined families, the Howards and the Norths, through the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century. I've always been going to read Miss Read and this seemed a good place to start. I expected it to be sort of fluffy and g...
And I've finished the penultimate Fairacre book. I find the character of Miss Read to be very compatible, very approachable, and lots of fun to spend time with. Here, she's ready to say goodbye to her little school but not without the usual amount of village upsets. No diminution of sweetness here a...
Yes, another delightful Miss Read book. This one has more of the same, only a little bit extra. Don't start with this, of course, as it's nearly the end of the series. There are some heart wrenching bits here, and as ever, it's worth the time to read.
Lovely, gentle, sweet- I'm running out of clever things to say about the Fairacre series. Fortunately, I'm nearly at the end- but that's not to say they are all the same, or all boring, or anything bad. I love these books precisely for their gentleness, their civility, their quietness.
This was less successful than most of the other books for me because it was a rehash of all the Mrs. Pringle stories told in the earlier books. I would probably have liked it better if I were not doing an intensive start to finish read of the series. But I am.
Arrrgh! Do not read the jacket copy, if you plan to read this book. The book is a bare 120-some pages long, and the jacket spoilers an event that happens on page 90. Maddening. That aside, it was a lovely book- another in the long string of dear tales of Fairacre. Miss Read shepherds her class throu...
One wonders just what was happening in Miss Read's own life as she wrote this, and the immediately preceding Farther Afield. Here's another story of a confirmed spinster (and also a complete loner) having to confront the realities of other sorts of lives. Miss Quinn is obliged to take over the runni...
Mrs. Berry is my new hero. Grimly determined to do the right thing, she surprises even herself with her own bravery in the end. Another charming English village tale from the able pen of Miss Read. Going back to my normal dystopian sci fi after this series is going to be jarring.
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