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  1. I'm a bit of a cookbook junkie. I love beautiful cookbooks with easy, yet elegant recipes. I loved Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine and the coordinated cookbooks. Nigella Lawson and Ina Garden take up a lot of room on my shelves (yes, plural). My go-to cookbook is America's Test Kitchen 1000 Best Recipes. They're good recipes, and I like the explanations as to how they came together. I've learned much from that cookbook. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
  2. I may have finally made friends with Tapatalk. Maybe. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
  3. When I read Wolf Hall, I posited that it was purposeful on Mantel's part. Now I don't remember why. Let me find my review. Ah, yes, here it is: http://ladydusk.blogspot.com/2013/12/book-review-wolf-hall-by-hilary-mantel.html Cromwell's antecedents were obscure too. I should read Bring up the Bodies. Hmmmm. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
  4. I'm a big fan of Nigella Lawson's book How to Eat. Part memoir, part cookbook, part menu making instruction, I found it a fascinating read a number of years ago - 10 maybe. I still make baked chicken her way. I love her writing style, though. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
  5. I finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night. This is my first time through the Potter universe, so that's pretty exciting. I liked it a lot, although I haven't processed my review yet and writing about it helps me to do that. I started the newest kindle-available Joan Smith It Takes a Lady ... I'm not very far into it, but it seems to be one of the better ones than recently. Did I mention that I think I've read all of the Joan Smith titles available for Kindle in the last two years? Ahem.
  6. Aw, I'm still actively homeschooling but left the WTM fold for AmblesideOnline/Charlotte Mason and have needed support more directly from those groups. I was sad to lose track of this group but I so rarely venture to the Hive anymore that it's hard to keep up with ... I actively blog (ladydusk.blogspot.com) and am active on other social media. I'm reading Harry Potter for the first time, finished Goblet of Fire last night and that's about as spooky as I can hack, does that count as my spooky read? I've read all of the kindle-available Joan Smith titles. I'm still stumping for Susan Howatch - in fact shared on my blog's facebook page yesterday that The Rich are Different was on sale (might still be ... ) I'll try to swing in more regularly. Part of the problem is I'm on mobile most of the time and I hate Tapatalk :/ But I'm working a few hours a week for Pam Barnhill so am on my laptop more, so that will make it more viable. Thanks for remembering me <3
  7. Hi Friend. Some favorites. :) Hope you are well <3 I liked Victoria Holt before I liked Susan Howatch ... In fact, as I recall, I found Howatch by looking a couple of shelves below Holt and wondering what she was about with titles like Cashelmara and Penmarric.
  8. It was OK. The plot wasn't very complicated. The characters were not all that witty. I don't know that the characters behaved within Regency mores; they needed another chaperone and someone who knew London at the least. The resolution scene was clever but a little confusing with using flowers to have a conversation and the other puzzling it out. But it was a nice story and free. So thanks!
  9. I found a Joan Smith like author, Anne Barbour. She has 14 kindle titles at the reasonable price of $.99. I've read 2, A Talent for Trouble and A Pressing Engagemeny. I enjoyed both.
  10. I enjoyed it too based on Kareni's rec, but didn't read the sequels because of Amazon's plot summaries. They looked awful.
  11. L'Engle is one of my favorite authors. I liked the Austins better than the Murrays. Her adult books are great (A Severed Wasp is one of my favorites) A Ring of Endless Light has long been my favorite YA novel, I don't know how many times I've read it. She is amazing at linking the humanities and the sciences (including math) and faith (she was a devout Christian who often comes across as a universalist). I don't always agree but she always makes me think. I, personally, think her Crosswick Journals are some of the best memoirs out there. I havent made it very far in the Ivy Tree. I read all of Rhonda Woodward's regencies on kindle. They were really good, even though all of the heroes start as rakes. Start with The Wagered Heart. Kisses only.
  12. Kareni, Rated PG? ETA I saw your response to Angel :)
  13. Have this on kindle but have yet to plunge ...
  14. I read Elena Greene's Three Disgraces series. It was pretty well done, I liked the characters and the plots were interesting (if occasionally stretched too long). R rated. I'm going back to The Ivy Tree.
  15. I read a bunch of Kristin Vayden (OK, but a little more explicit than I like) and Elizabeth Bailey (Georgian Era and pretty good. Believable plots but some characters are not as loveable as others.) I went and dug out my copy of The Ivy Tree last night. I'm only 50 pages in, but it is much more challenging reading than the other and I love how Stewart gives so many clues to the truth of story but keeps the reader off balance so you are never really sure. Even as early as I am, and knowing the resolution, I question what is true and what isn't. Masterfully done.
  16. I read two Anna Elliott regencies: Susanna and the Spy (free for kindle) and London Calling (not free for kindle) they were decent, clean, but the heroine was kinda foolish.
  17. I found Cashelmara incredibly disturbing. Penmarric excellent.
  18. I finished Georgette Heyer's Charity Girl and it was sweet.
  19. I actually have it right now and am having a hard time getting past the first few pages. I'll work at it some more ...
  20. I've not read either of those ...
  21. I'm going to have to find my copy of The Ivy Tree ... I don't recall struggling with it. Fantastical, unrealistic plots are so much a part of Gothic romances. It has been a long, long time since I read it, though. I also like Wildfire at Midnight and Madame Will You Talk ... There are a whole lot of Gothic romances I haven't read on the bibliography on her Wiki (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Stewart_(novelist) ) page. I also didn't know she was Lady Stewart. Cool.
  22. I finished The Weaver Takes a Wife that Karen recommended and it was as sweet and charming as she said. I also finished Heyer's The Reluctant Widow which Amy had asked about weeks ago. It was fun and exciting, although not as romantic and had a pretty unbelievable plot line as many Heyer books. I read a Joan Smith with a similar plot device, Delsie. Also, today is the day on my blog where I host a link in for words that have been meaningful in your previous week's reading (http://ladydusk.blogspot.com/2014/10/wednesdays-with-words-such-twisted.html), any of you are welcome (encouraged) to share.
  23. I finished St Cyr #9 last night. Very good. Thanks to mum and Amy for introducing me. #10 comes out in March ... Next to try The Weaver Takes a Wife.
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