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Shell McConville
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My furrowed-middlebrow-etc shelf
I have read 10 novels from Dean Street Press and I know I will carry on collecting them. (The 'etc' covers other similar novels.)
In a world of screaming, over-emotional, over-stated, uninformative headlines (in both the traditional and the alternative media) and when very small incidents are over-dramatized and regarded as news (making Everests out of the smallest molehills), the world of these n Read more of this blog post »
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Faith and Fortune: A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice
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Two Classic Romances in One Volume: Arabella / The Corinthian is a total of 513 pages not 233 as shown here. Arabella (280 pages) (4.5 stars) Arabella reminded me of Frederica although, given the dates of publishing, it should be said the other way rou ...more |
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The Toll-Gate The cover of my old paperback copy published in 1967 by Pan (when I hadn't quite reached my teenage years) reminds me of the reason I avoided Georgette Heyer (GH) novels for over half a century - it shows a couple clasped in an embrace. ...more |
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| Another late review. In The Nonesuch, Georgette Heyer introduces us to a proud independent woman, Ancilla Trent, and the determined Sir Waldo Hawkridge. Several misunderstandings (the final one hilarious) keep them from what every reader knows will b ...more | |
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Cotillion As I'm late writing this review, I'm not able to remember all the details. This was my twelfth Georgette Heyer novel in 3 months. There comes a time when using the word favourite becomes nonsensical - if every book is a favourite then none i ...more |
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The Toll-Gate The cover of my old paperback copy published in 1967 by Pan (when I hadn't quite reached my teenage years) reminds me of the reason I avoided Georgette Heyer (GH) novels for over half a century - it shows a couple clasped in an embrace. ...more |
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| Another late review. In The Nonesuch, Georgette Heyer introduces us to a proud independent woman, Ancilla Trent, and the determined Sir Waldo Hawkridge. Several misunderstandings (the final one hilarious) keep them from what every reader knows will b ...more | |
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
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