tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post4488369572547506732..comments2023-11-01T02:35:48.057+00:00Comments on Geranium Cat's Bookshelf: August round upGeraniumCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03010199887691558717noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-72910828774609914572008-09-12T16:29:00.000+01:002008-09-12T16:29:00.000+01:00What a list! I would love to reread The Secret Ga...What a list! I would love to reread The Secret Garden one day.Tarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07208766776468157501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-84031419300378690622008-09-12T01:20:00.000+01:002008-09-12T01:20:00.000+01:00You know how much I like L'Engle, for all the reas...You know how much I like L'Engle, for all the reason you describe so well. A Circle of Quiet is one of my favourites of her non-fiction.<BR/><BR/>I also loved Katy Carr when I was young, I even thought it would be romantic to be an invalid for a while. Although I don't <I>quite</I> feel that way anymore, I still enjoy Katy and Clover.Melwykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04885378201188978664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-18523489410050188192008-09-09T11:48:00.000+01:002008-09-09T11:48:00.000+01:00Susan, thanks for blogging about Louise Penny, I w...Susan, thanks for blogging about Louise Penny, I wouldn't have known about her otherwise (and I haven't forgotten I owe you an email!)<BR/><BR/>TT, I wondered if you'd read Stoneheart - did you post about it? I have to add the sequel to the wish list, but I've already added 5 other books to it this morning, and now those Clover Carr books are just begging to join it.Jodie Robsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442935205880334932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-6564690761289973962008-09-09T09:13:00.000+01:002008-09-09T09:13:00.000+01:00I'm so glad you enjoyed 'The Dig'. I thought it w...I'm so glad you enjoyed 'The Dig'. I thought it was a wonderful novel and one that deserved far more attention than it seems to have received. I also loved 'Stoneheart' and your comments have made me want to go back and re-read that. Just as I could do with another dose of Katy Carr. I wonder if my local library has got all the later ones about Clover? I shall have to pop round this morning and see. Or I would if the rain wasn't bouncing off the pavements again. And as for those mosquitos! I'm not going to tell you where I was bitten but suffice it to say it was lower down than the shoulders and looks as if I've been behaving no better than I ought!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-56077769220518522602008-09-09T04:18:00.000+01:002008-09-09T04:18:00.000+01:00I loved What Katy Did! and I'm glad you liked Sti...I loved What Katy Did! and I'm glad you liked Still Life enough to look for the second book in the series, which I am also looking for now too. I really enjoyed the first book. I love your shelves, by the way, all those lovely books!!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09095246748581382752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-77254148476857908002008-09-07T16:14:00.000+01:002008-09-07T16:14:00.000+01:00Nan. I'd really enjoy that walk, and I've even mad...Nan. I'd really enjoy that walk, and I've even made gingerbread.<BR/>The only disappointment with The Secret Garden was that it seems to have grown shorter over the years - I didn't want it to end.<BR/>After all the L'Engle I've been reading Rose McCaulay's The Towers of Trebizond, which I rather think she might have enjoyed. I'm still thinking over their different approaches to religion.Jodie Robsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442935205880334932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-622928688831369132008-09-07T14:17:00.000+01:002008-09-07T14:17:00.000+01:00Oh, I'm sorry you needed cheering. I wish I w...Oh, I'm sorry you needed cheering. I wish I were closer. We could put on wellies and take a walk in that English rain and mud. :<)<BR/>I really did love The Secret Garden. I fear that it is one of those books that people don't read because they think they know the story; like Pollyanna or Heidi, but yet is so fresh, with such good writing that the reader is thrilled. Not only was L'Engle a Christian, but a really devout Episcopalian. I'm so interested in her as a person because she really seemed to live her beliefs. And my goodness, she was prolific! So many books.Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15547916206007733970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-91618803600226284322008-09-07T11:49:00.000+01:002008-09-07T11:49:00.000+01:00Thank you all for your comments! Katy Carr and Mar...Thank you all for your comments! Katy Carr and Mary Lennox are so easy to identify with as a child, I think, because they aren't perfect, and I was an old-fashioned child even by the standard of the '50s (now there's a surprise - me, old-fashioned, bookish? who would have thought?).<BR/><BR/>Ngaio Marsh - yes, I like the earlier books best, and enjoy the period theatre detail: theatres were pretty much the same when I was a child and spent a lot of time in them so there is a sense of familiarity which I enjoy. Allingham, however, manages to be at once frivolous and dark, and I find her much more satisfying.<BR/><BR/>Booksplease, I think Stoneheart is worth reading, and you can find most of the locations with a bit of Googling - I certainly tracked down some pictures. Maybe I'll post some links, it might be fun.Jodie Robsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442935205880334932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-79778715586529261252008-09-07T07:36:00.000+01:002008-09-07T07:36:00.000+01:00I've been meaning to re-read What Katy Did all sum...I've been meaning to re-read What Katy Did all summer (when was that??), maybe this autumn or winter!<BR/><BR/>Stoneheart intersts me, even though I don't know London very well - very little actually.<BR/><BR/>I decided to start with Friday's Child for the Heyer Challenge, but admit that I have also read the first few pages of the Heyer novel as well.BooksPleasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08721650104596705715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-1497388927179988352008-09-06T17:53:00.000+01:002008-09-06T17:53:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-21857462939836659832008-09-05T20:13:00.000+01:002008-09-05T20:13:00.000+01:00This is quite a nice list for the month of August....This is quite a nice list for the month of August. The only book on here that I've read is the Secret Garden, which I adored.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00795619401977840939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-15762852175697884222008-09-05T17:47:00.000+01:002008-09-05T17:47:00.000+01:00You're the second person today to mention What Kat...You're the second person today to mention What Katy Did. I loved it as a child and still do.<BR/>How did you get on with Ngaio Marsh? I don't like her as much as I do Margery Allingham. Her murders are too complicated and so often seem unnecessary. I do enjoy the period flavour in earlier books like Vintage Murder. Overture to Death is rather a favourite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com