Bluestockings sounds really good. Can't wait to hear what you think of it!
@mariasmiles68
8 ай бұрын
I wouldn't say superstitions but expectations. I always try to start the year with a book that I think will be a 5 star book.
@kathleencraine7335
8 ай бұрын
I loved Miss Buncle's Book; it's more funny than cozy, but a great read nonetheless. I read The Remains of the Day about a year ago and it was brilliant. I regret waiting so long to read it. It is quiet and has a lot to think about, especially about memory and how it can deceive us. And the film with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson is very close to the book, with great performances by both.
@freshparchment
8 ай бұрын
Yay! I'm so looking forward to both of them.
@isabellemenez5704
8 ай бұрын
Hi, there are many books in there I want to read but, alas, so little time ! I don't do seasonal reads generally, I'm a mood reader (plus, I work in the library and temptations are everywhere !). Happy reading too :)
@freshparchment
8 ай бұрын
I know that temptation far too well. Enjoy!
@amyc1752
8 ай бұрын
I don't have any end-of-year reading superstitions, but one goal of mine is to finish the All Creatures Great and Small series. I have the UK set, so it's 8 books, and I have two left to read. Can't wait to see what you think of Miss Buncle's Book. I have the same edition but haven't read it yet. I've heard it's very funny!
@freshparchment
8 ай бұрын
That sounds like a great goal! I read the first book (only 4 in the US), but I haven't gotten around to the others yet.
@maryh4650
8 ай бұрын
Enjoy Our Man in Havana. No superstitions, just dive in and enjoy all my Christmas present books!
@spinstercatlady
8 ай бұрын
No superstitions, but i do like to throw in some ghost stories or a spooky gothic to my December reading!
@freshparchment
8 ай бұрын
Ooh, that's a fun tradition to bring back.
@amy8458
8 ай бұрын
Hi Heather, I read but unhauled Miss Bunckels Book. DE Stevenson's writing felt stilted and not as cozy as I'd wanted after loving Miss Reed's Thrush Green series. The Remains of the Day and A Snowfall of Silver Sound good. The Pages and Co series is on my TBR. In December I only read Christmas romance. I'll also be trying out a daily Advent devotional.
@freshparchment
8 ай бұрын
That sounds like fun! I rarely read Christmas-themed books. I don't know why.
@gerridauer9092
8 ай бұрын
If that’s the only Stevenson that you’ve read, you might want to give her another chance. The Four Graces was very good and cozy and many of the others. Miss Buncle’s Book was a lot different.
@amy8458
8 ай бұрын
@@gerridauer9092 Thanks so much.
@maryh4650
8 ай бұрын
Bluestockings is very interesting and quite shocking as they are so nasty to THE ladies. The Remains of the day is AMAZING. The author seems so far removed from the subject, but is at the same time so like the subject. Love it. The film is good too.
@UraniumMilk
8 ай бұрын
On the Henry VIII book is his illegitimate son Henry FitzRoy one of the fourth portraits around the bottom? I always thought it was weird that he went through so much to have a son when he already had one all along, he could have just changed the law so Fitzroy would be legitimized.
@freshparchment
8 ай бұрын
No, they look at Lady Jane Grey, not as one of his biological children, but as one of his heirs. I don't know about changing the law so Fitzroy could inherit. Then that would have set a precedent that any other lord or king with illegitimate children could inherit. It would have also meant (to the Tudors) that the Tudor bloodline would have been 'tainted' because it wasn't entirely royal. Then again, nothing with Henry VIII was logical, so...I don't know.
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