KathleenMacIver

Yup, clear as mud! I call midday meal lunch, and evening meal dinner... but my mother-in-law calls lunch dinner, and dinner supper... and my kids STILL haven't gotten it figured out! They get soooo confused when she says "we just ate dinner" and it's midafternoon. They're thinking "We did? I thought we just had lunch! How did I miss dinner?"

Hi WillowFae! I'm new here, too!

Yeah! Maybe we can get a little Persuasion fan club going!!! :-)

Okay... this thread is reminding me how hungry I am!!! On a related note... for a long while, I've been curious to know what lunch is called in other parts of the world. Here, it's called either lunch or dinner or supper, depending on where you grew up. What's it called where you all live?

Hi Inver and Willow! No, I haven't read Outlander/Cross-Stitch yet. The length of it has deterred me so far... not because I don't like long books, but because I am AWFUL at not putting down a book until I've finished it! LOL... I homeschool my three kids, and we're still trying to get the new school year into a schedule, so I can't afford to do it. Plus, Dorothy Dunnett's are pretty long, and I'm working on hers right now. You all have read them, right? They're set during the border wars in the 1500's... the hero is Scottish, but they don't portray the English as the bad guys, which I like... just two countries at war, so naturally people take sides. (I finally got my signature, so I don't have to remember to sign these "Katie."

Thanks Angerball and Kylie! Kylie... In my opinion, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion were her best. But they all have lots of fans. Have fun reading!

Am I allowed to revive this very old thread? I saw here that very few had read Persuasion... or read it recently... so I just had to say that I LOVE it. It's one of my favorite books... I love it just as much as Pride and Prejudice, which plenty of people might find hard to believe. I've practically got it memorized, I've read it so many times. The wonderful thing about this book is the experience of reading it. It's not one of those books that you can skim, or that you can skip past the parts you don't like and re-read the parts you do. The full charm and beauty of it is only caught when you read the whole thing through, in a quiet place, where you can savor it, because it's so subtle. You have to catch all the tiny little signs that the love that Anne never quite suceeded in burying is fighting for sunshine again... that the little signs that show that Captain Wentworth is falling in love with her again, even though he doesn't want to. And then, when you get to "the letter"... it's just PERFECT! It's the perfect release to all the hopes and dreams that you've built upon Anne through the whole book. As for the movie... vastly unsuperior, as movies usually are. So much of the richness of this book is in Anne's mind and heart, and she has NO ONE to talk about it with, so that movie viewers might hear, like Elizabeth and Jane do in P&P. It's just not a good book for movie adaptation. Soo.... have any of you read it since this thread was started?

Thanks everyone!

Hi Nici and Judy! Well... I haven't officially started the hunt yet. I finished the book and started a second, but then my writing skills grew enough to see plenty of room for improvement on that first one, so I'm doing a partial re-write. Once I'm happy with it again... and stay happy with it for long enough, then I'll start the agent hunt. Once I succeed at that milestone, I'll let the agent do the publisher hunt. :-) So right now, I'm still in the free land of "have fun writing and researching." :-) And now I'm off to look at your little town. :-)

Thanks for the welcomes, everyone! Glad you enjoyed my website, Janet! I'm trying to make it interesting! Well, Kell, right now my favorite author is Lynn Kurland. She writes Scotish and English time travel (with American characters mixed in) and they're my kind of story! In fact, hers inspired mine, although my stories are ending up with some major differences from hers... which is good. They have lots of romance, a little bit of action here and there... they're PG-rated, too, which is my preference. I recently found Dorothy Dunnett, and I'm working my way through the Lymond Chronicles, slowly. I also love Jane Austin... doesn't matter how many times I read her, I never get timed of P & P and Persuasion! Come to think of it, most of my favorite authors are either older authors, or they write in an older style. I'm an old-fashioned techie, if that's possible! My first book, which I'm doing a re-write on, is about a 20th century American girl, who meets an American guy... who's not as American as she thought! She soon finds out that he grew up in the Highlands, until his father died when he was 9, at which time his Scottish aunt and her American husband adopted him and brought him to the US. He's got secrets, and since it's a time travel book, you can guess what one of them might be, but I won't tell you because if I ever sell this to a publisher, I don't want to ruin the story for everyone! :-) It's fun writing, though, and I'm loving all the things I'm learning as I research! The only problem is, sometimes I spend 3 times as much time researching as I do writing! Hehehe. So yes, Michelle, I like to read historical romance. It's my ultimate favorite, for all the reasons that you can probably guess! Fishandchips, thanks for reminding me about Wales! Where do you live in Wales? (If you don't mind telling me.) I'd love to look it up on Google Earth!

Haha... I guess I fit in here, then! Thanks! I'm about two hours south west of Orlando. Hope you'll all have fun! And nice to meet you, Carm, and lovesreading! -Katie Cool! I'm one of those people who is soooo glad to have been born in the Internet age, because I that's the only way I can afford to go globe-trotting! I love meeting people from other countries and other backgrounds... so many VERY interesting things to learn!

Cool, Happy! (or H&D... or do you prefer your whole name written out?) What part of FL are you going to be visiting?

Hello, everyone! Cinthia Hamer recommended your book group as a great way to meet other readers and writers "across the pond"... so that's why I'm here! I'm Katie, an American who loves Old World historical romances... especially those based in England, Scotland, and Ireland. (America just doesn't have enough history, unless you want to use Indians.) I'm also fascinated with your countries because my grandfather traced my father's ancestry back to when my ancestors came over from Scotland, Ireland, and England in the 1600-1840's. When the writing bug hit me, it compelled me to write stories that include both present-day and historical Scotland... mostly because of the history over there, and because I've always loved mountains and couldn't help falling in love with the Highlands. I do NOT, however, want to be one of those American writers who makes up her own version of what Scotland and the Isles are like! I've read quite a few Scots complaining that they hate books Americans write set in Scotland, because they've got so much messed up... and I don't blame them. Sooo... I'm following as many Scot (especially Highland) blogs as I can find, reading books written by Scots, exploring the Highlands in Google Earth (great program!), studying the history of Scotland and trying to sort out the fact from the fiction... and hoping to make some friends over there as well! So, having written what is probably far too much about me, I'm hoping that some of you will befriend me and let me be a part of your very interesting group!