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Elinor’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Elinor’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Elinor Florence
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I can follow my heart, work at my own pace, and answer to nobody.
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Finding Flora
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2025
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Wildwood
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2018
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Bird's Eye View
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2014
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My Favourite Veterans: True Stories of World War Two's Hometown Heroes
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The Bombing of Berlin: Eyewitness Account
The bombing of Berlin was a horrific ordeal for German civilians. My mother-in-law Gerda Drews, who turns 98 years old on December 1, 2025, lived to tell her story.
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| I will never give Larry McMurtry fewer than five stars because he was the master. BUT if you're looking for Western fiction in the vein of Lonesome Dove, this isn't it. This is Blazing Saddles meets Monty Python, a crazy farce in which spoiled Britis ...more | |
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| When it comes to “propulsive fiction” which is the new literary buzzword, this author can’t be beat. She comes up with the most inventive ideas and then creates a cast of characters—in this case, an entire plane load of passengers—and makes the reade ...more | |
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| Although I am giving this book four stars for the excellent way it was crafted, I can’t help feeling that it fell short somehow. I found the main character somewhat unlikeable because of her choices. Her husband was too good to be true and the other ...more | |
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| When it comes to “propulsive fiction” which is the new literary buzzword, this author can’t be beat. She comes up with the most inventive ideas and then creates a cast of characters—in this case, an entire plane load of passengers—and makes the reade ...more | |
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| This novel is loosely based on the author's own parents in wartime, a Norwegian beauty queen turned spy, and a Canadian fighter pilot. Their heartfelt love is compelling, but the book goes a lot farther than that with some truly breathless action — i ...more | |
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| I usually enjoy Minette Walters in a creepy horrified way, but this novel was WAY too long, too complicated, and the ending was confusing and unsatisfying. I genuinely don’t understand why so many people gave it five stars. | |
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| This novel brings to life my favourite theme in literature - a strong woman battling the odds. The British heroine is taken prisoner by the Japanese when World War Two begins, and survives by sheer force of will. Her post-war story, which takes place ...more | |
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| I wanted to like the novel more than I did, because Nick Hornby is an excellent writer and puts his finger on the quirkiness of human nature. That alone is worth three stars. However, the characters were so unrelatable that even Annie, whom we are ex ...more | |
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| I avoided this novel of years, because I knew how it ended due to all the hype and the movie. Finally decided to pick up the used paperback from a Little Free Library and give it a go. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it, mostly due to the writi ...more | |
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| I chose this 1974 book because of the words "old farm" rather than "naturalist." I love old houses, old farms and rural life, so it was a natural choice. I ended by getting more than I expected. Edwin Way Teale was a well-known and well-respected nat ...more | |
“I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.”
― Bird's Eye View
― Bird's Eye View
“I set one cup of milk into a pan of water and heated it to boiling. Bridget stirred the dry ingredients together five times, as the recipe directed: one cup flour, one cup sugar, three teaspoons baking powder and a pinch of salt. She sifted so merrily that a cloud of white flour circled her curly dark head like a halo. Into the dry ingredients I poured the hot milk, then folded in two stiff egg whites before pouring the batter into a pan and popping it into a moderate oven. When it had risen satisfactorily and a broom straw inserted into the centre came out clean,”
― Wildwood
― Wildwood
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“Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“The fashion has been in literary fiction for the depressing ending, and for more or less passive characters who have terrible things happen to them . . . So why not have a happy ending? Is there a law?”
― News of the World
― News of the World
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Peggy wrote: "Elinor,Really looking forward to your new novel coming out in 2018! Happy reading,
Peggy Zsutty"
Thanks so much, Peggy!
Elinor,Really looking forward to your new novel coming out in 2018! Happy reading,
Peggy Zsutty
