Reading list #4

1. Catriona’s  War by Jean Grainger WW2 England and France
2. The Little Spark by Carrie Bloomston lots of ideas for boosting creativity making time and making a dedicated space
3. 1969: The Year Everything Changed by Rob Kirkpatrick About everything in 1969, Nixon, Vietnam, football, baseball, music, movies, theater, Woodstock and a whole lot more. I was 12/13 then I remember some of the events but not in detail except the moon landing and Zip to Zap, North Dakota where college students tried to drink the very small town dry.
4. Rainy Day Kisses by Debbie Macomber romantic fluff
5. Finding Billie Romano by Jean Grainger more in the life of Conor and Ana O’Shea and  Castle Dysert, explains a lot of Irish history and attitudes.
6. The Diary by Eileen  Goudge about two sisters reading their mother’s diary and a love story.
7. The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy WW2 France resistance and fashion.
8. Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J Ryan Stradal for book club enjoyed it as much the second time
9. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley farm family in Iowa for book club
10. The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg great story just for fun.
11. Trials and Tribulations by Jean Grainger a Robinswood novel #3
12. Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb love story told through letters during WWI.
13. The Great Christmas Knit-Off by Alexandra Brown 30 something year old woman and her pity party, fiancé failed to show up for the wedding. Change of scenery, old friends and new friends help her get her life back together.
14. The Paris Secret by Lily Graham Paris WW2 
15. Pompeii: a Novel by Robert Harris about the eruption of Mt. Vesuveus in AD 79. I read this after son and DIL returned from their honeymoon cruise to New Zealand, their ship passed the volcano that erupted the night before it blew.  So glad they are home safe.
16. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
17. Stranger from the Sea by Winston Graham book 8 of the Poldark saga.  There is a 10 year span between book 7 and 8.  Season 4 of the PBS series ended with book 7, season 5 was entirely the creation of series writers.   Book 8 starts roughly where season 5 ended with Ross going to abroad to deliver a message from Parliment to the English General Wellington during Napoleon's revolution. (I really don't know English/French history very well because Ross went to Portugal in book 8)  I read this a couple years go, needless to say I was a bit confused during season 5 when none of the plot was familiar.
18. The Miller's Dance by Winston Graham book 9 life continues in Cornwall as the Poldark children become young adults.

72 books in 2019

Happy New Year!  Happy reading, happy quilting, happy knitting, happy coffee, happy wine.
Happy 2020!  --Ann--