by Nancy Mitford
My first Nancy Mitford read was Love in a Cold Climate and while I could recognise the talent in the writing, and enjoy the humor, I failed to see anything significant or profound in the story. That means this, my only other Mitford book, languished on the TBR for years. I finally picked it up a c...
bookshelves: radio-4x, winter-20152016, dec-2015-free-for-all, long-weekend, britain-england, lit-richer, amusing, published-1945 Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 28 to December 11, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ft1mDescription: Fanny Logan tells the story of h...
The ClearingThis is the tale of my nasty book-buying addiction. Since 1998 or so, for every five or six books that I bought, I'd read maybe one, leaving something around 80% of my library (over 1000 books) unread. Most of my library is still in boxes: we don't have enough room in our house to displa...
I have read the Mitford sisters biography by Cecilia Hagen several times and I am equally fascinated by their alternative story by the eldest of the sisters, Nancy. Next on my list is "Hons and Rebels" by second to youngest sister Jessica.
Nancy Mitford is as delightfully snarky as her sister Jessica, and this makes reading her novels like getting gossip from an old friend. That being said, I enjoy Mitford's biographies more than her novels. Mitford's novels are lightly fictionalized versions of her own family's biography, and it make...
I think I'm starting to understand English humour. It's the whole "yes-life-is-quite-depressing-have-a-cup-of-tea-and-mock-it-with-me" kind of thing.I think I might actually like it.
I'd only distantly heard of the Mitford clan - just enough to lackadaisically pick up a used copy of a double-packaged [b:The Pursuit of Love|835458|The Pursuit of Love|Nancy Mitford|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1178768641s/835458.jpg|821072] and [b:Love in a Cold Climate|372811|Love in a Cold Clima...
I enjoyed this book immensely. I could easily see myself growing up in the Aconeligh family and being bullied by the other kids.We'd all fit right in with them.My own family loves our pets as deeply as poor Linda and her attempted suicide over her beloved lab.I think Nancy Mitford wrote the most rea...
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I believe this was based on Mitford's actual family, which made it more depressing to me. I felt sad watching the young girls' dreams slip away from them. But the prose is quite clever.
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