Reading list #1 2021

1.  The World Starts Anew:The Star and the Shamrock Series by Jean Grainger 
2. Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline  Winspear book # 9 of Maisie Dobbs series 
3. Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear #10 of Maisie Dobbs series 
4. Lady in Waiting by Susan Meissner another great story modern day story about a woman who owns an antique store in Manhattan and her troubled marriage and a 16th century dressmaker and  Lady Jane Grey.
5. The Sister of St Croix by Diney Costeloe WW2 France 
6. The Throwaway Children also by Diney Costeloe sad sad story about children mostly orphans, sent to Australia after WW 2
7. The Exiles  by Christina Baker Kline takes place in mid 1800’s about women sent to Tasmania south of Australia as punishment for crimes committed in Great Britain also an Aboriginal girl being raised by an English family.
8. Welcome to the World Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg I needed something upbeat and funny after the last three books.  Published in 1998, the story takes place in the mid 1970’s but is very relevant to today.
9. Standing in the Rainbow also by Fannie Flagg another goodie, delightful characters
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte published in 1847 a love story, lots of words, writers had a vocabulary and they used it. I don't know if we as a society have digressed or evolved with simpler words and language. There were long descriptions of settings, characters and feelings but I read every word and frequently highlighted for a definition, so oftentimes with contemporary writers I skip over the long descriptions especially if it is a present day story. I read this book many years ago and loved is as much the second time .

I found these wonderful book fabrics last summer so I made a little table topper.  I may cover some notebooks with it also because cloth covered books feel so wonderful.  Happy Reading  --Ann--