tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543676375857581295.post3836164541133534838..comments2024-02-10T11:02:03.896-05:00Comments on Reader in the Wilderness: Riches from the Library for DecemberJudithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06435116453270981662noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543676375857581295.post-24913877221516057782018-12-30T15:06:29.085-05:002018-12-30T15:06:29.085-05:00This plot appeals to me and hey, the protagonist i...This plot appeals to me and hey, the protagonist is older than me, I don't find that so often. I like Anne Perry's Pitt mystery series.Terra https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396481049075747940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543676375857581295.post-79722177046312215912018-12-26T18:22:03.506-05:002018-12-26T18:22:03.506-05:00Hi Constance,
I'm so sorry that I somehow or o...Hi Constance,<br />I'm so sorry that I somehow or other missed responding to your comment. I just found it today, a week later. Darn it.<br />Isn't that interesting? I read Colgan's Christmas novel from last year, which was set in Cornwall. Christmas at the Little Beach Bakery, I believe?<br />So I didn't know that there were two previous novels in the Island of Mure series. I will keep it in mind for the next year, and I will catch up, too!<br />Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you!Judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06435116453270981662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543676375857581295.post-2147995710598797702018-12-19T00:01:44.821-05:002018-12-19T00:01:44.821-05:00I also just read Christmas on the Island - not rea...I also just read Christmas on the Island - not realizing until after I started that it was the third in a series. I couldn't stop once I had begun but luckily my library had the first book and I was able to rush over to get it from a library just a mile away. I am not familiar with Christmas in London but I appreciate the recommendation and have put it on reserve.CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543676375857581295.post-20398450617655784822018-12-04T17:58:07.646-05:002018-12-04T17:58:07.646-05:00Hi Cath,
I always read one Anne Perry Christmas my...Hi Cath,<br />I always read one Anne Perry Christmas mystery in November or December, but I don't necessarily read the one that has been most recently published. <br />My favorite was A New York Christmas, not because of the setting, although Perry rendered it very well, but because of the plot. I do recommend it highly, and I think, based on what I know about your interests, that you would like it very much. <br />Judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06435116453270981662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543676375857581295.post-32255329348091913522018-12-04T17:53:46.459-05:002018-12-04T17:53:46.459-05:00Believe me, Tracy, I borrowed them not to read the...Believe me, Tracy, I borrowed them not to read them in their entirety, but to get a sense of them, to see perhaps which one I might read totally in the new year. Both fascinate.<br />And about Anne Perry: I've only read her Christmas mysteries. The very best one, I think (and GoodReads agrees) is A Christmas in New York or A New York Christmas, set in, the late 1800s, as I recall. I really loved it. Warning: They're cozies.<br />Judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06435116453270981662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543676375857581295.post-46217742662515276052018-12-04T17:50:54.833-05:002018-12-04T17:50:54.833-05:00Hi Katrina,
I've been collecting advent calend...Hi Katrina,<br />I've been collecting advent calendars since age 12, and I think this .jpg is a photo of one I came across last year or the year before. <br />Yes, I am not reading either book in its entirety right now, but both are extremely interesting to leaf through. I would like to read the one by Uwe Johnson. The journal entries are written from a New York City setting, but they hearken back continuously to the 1930s, 40s, and 50s in Germany, and East Germany. <br /><br />And I did have a great time that day. I had just paid a huge fine on an extremely overdue book that I knew was in the house but had not been able to find until that morning, when eureka--I discovered that it had slipped down behind a huge pile of books to land on the distant side of a footstool behind the wastebasket. Who knew? <br />So free and clear of debt once again, I made hay with lots of library loot. Judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06435116453270981662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543676375857581295.post-20167599341796800592018-12-03T19:21:26.066-05:002018-12-03T19:21:26.066-05:00I love the picture at the top of your post, more m...I love the picture at the top of your post, more my kind of thing at this time of the year. The non fiction books sound very heavy indeed. It sounds like you had a great time at the library.Katrinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138715309807238198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543676375857581295.post-39917683803128360272018-12-02T20:01:09.360-05:002018-12-02T20:01:09.360-05:00I have read Anne Perry but not any of her Christma...I have read Anne Perry but not any of her Christmas books. That one sounds interesting. Wow, 2000 pages of non-fiction reading; that is daunting (for me at least). TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543676375857581295.post-9592209369852655882018-12-02T18:07:20.033-05:002018-12-02T18:07:20.033-05:00What a lovely way to get through an unpleasant den...What a lovely way to get through an unpleasant dentist's apt! <br /><br />I've read a few of Anne Perry's Christmas books and enjoyed them all. And I have one on my library pile to read this year - A Christmas Secret. I don't think I've read A Christmas Return though. Cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06371069000185280668noreply@blogger.com