Marie H

Noddy was my first Enid Blyton books, but it was the St Clare’s series that I devoured!

Slip Slidin' Away - Paul Simon

The Mingham Air by Elizabeth Fair Goodreads blurb Hester Clifford has come to Mingham to recover from pneumonia, at the invitation of her godmother, Cecily Hutton, an eccentric painter with a predilection for ruins. Hester determines to bring order to the Huttons’ easygoing lives, not to mention those of the villagers—including elderly Mrs. Hyde-Ridley, attempting to enforce her Edwardian standards of behaviour, Mrs. Merlin, the Rector’s wife, equally determined to share the joys of country dance with an unenthusiastic parish, and Thomas Seamark, a classic example of the wealthy, brooding widower. Amidst conflict, manipulation, matchmaking, and general hilarity, Hester clearly has her work cut out for her. I loved this novel, the last of Elizabeth Fair’s 6 novels, and they have all being enjoyable, with a lovely, gentle humour. None of them are earth shattering novels, but very nice, in a similar way as Barbara Pym, Angela Thirkell, D E Stevenson style. But more with a gentle humour, rather than more acid humour, than these other authors have been.

Read 37% of The October Man (Rivers of London #7.5) so far.

I did achieve to finished the second book, it was a successful read-a-thon

Finished one of books today, and it was light, gentle humour, so very enjoyable time this afternoon

Plans to finish 2 books this weekend, and it’s going well with reading 2 hours this afternoon.

Hi Suzanne, and to the BCF Forum

Yup, I’m going to be reading this weekend

Read 34% of Jane Smiley’s The Strays of Paris (a.k.a Perestroika in Paris)

Though I still have many books of the same genre to read, in the Dead Street Press/Furrowed Middlebrow library

70% read Elizabeth Fair’s The Mingham Air. Gentle humour of English 50s love and provincial snobby, and cleverly done. I’m sad that this was Elizabeth Fair’s last novel

They are lovely, very messy with crumbs everywhere!

S2 E1 of Castle.

Eating home made custard creams, and drinking masala chaI tea.

Today we had rain, snow, wind and sunny spells already!

Finished listening to Richard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice (The Thursday Murder Club #2) Lesley Manville’s narration was great, and the book was good, though I think this one is not as good as the first of the series. Though I have pre-ordered the 3rd The Thursday Murder Club Audible already Reading Ben Aaronovitch’s The October Man (Rivers of London #7.5) today.

Prime video Blacklist series 1, Episode 1. Intriguing, certainly.

I prefer Emma and Persuasion, though I enjoyed P & P studied at O level. Emma & Persuasion just seem to have more mature characters, that’s why I loved them more.

Okay here Rather breezy after lunchtime, but nothing damaged.

A very teasing teaser indeed…. I haven’t a clue what will be going on!

Concentrating on Jane Smiley’s The Strays of Paris (also titled as Perestroika in Paris), as I’m reading this from the e-library. This is a lovely book .

I forgot the Read-a-thon this weekend, but I read 2-3 hours each day Friday to Sunday.

Disney+ with 1S of Firefly (up to episode 4) - love this! . Also re-watching the first series of Castle.