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callmemadam here. I signed in and was told I was commenting as D. Duh.
Anyway, congratulations on your anniversary. Still reading!
Commented Jan 17, 2020 on It's Mary's Library's 14th anniversary at MarysLibrary
It's Mary's Library's 14th anniversary
Mary's Library is 14 years old.
Congratulations! I've enjoyed your blog since I found it.
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Commented Jan 18, 2019 on Maryslibrary is 13 years old! at MarysLibrary
Maryslibrary is 13 years old!
Back in January of 2006 I started my blog at the instigation of some friends back in the DC area who said they wanted to be able to keep up with what I had been reading. So I listed some books I was reading or wanted to read or had read and started off in a small way. Eventually I began writing ...
I'm reading Love is Blind right now! I'm enjoying all the technical details about pianos.
Warning! I had to stop watching the video clip because it contains spoilers for events I haven't read about yet.
callmemadam
Commented Sep 22, 2018 on Thanks, results, and a book of the day at Cornflower Books
Thanks, results, and a book of the day
Thanks to all who offered suggestions as to the identity of Lee's mystery book (see below) - I knew you'd be able to help! ~~~~~ Remember the 2018 Reader Survey? The results are in. Mary apologises for having tak...
I don't recognise this book but I'm pretty sure it's not by O Douglas.
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Commented Sep 19, 2018 on Can you help? at Cornflower Books
Can you help?
An email from Lee yesterday with a request for help in identifying a book: Lee is trying to remember the name of novel she read some years ago, similar in style, she recalls, to the work of D.E. Stevenson - "It was set in Scotland and revolves around a family is straitened circumstan...
callmemadam writes:
I second Mr C's recommendation! It was the first book by Richard Holmes which I read. Also of course his wonderful biography of Coleridge and a curious little book called Dr Johnson and Mr Savage. He's brilliant.
Commented Aug 25, 2018 on Life's work at Cornflower Books
Life's work
To the book festival again, to hear Hilary Spurling and Jenny Uglow discuss the art of biography with reference to their latest books, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time and Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense. "Are the best biographies written by women?" asked chairm...
callmemadam writes:
Thank you for this. I've enjoyed all the Grantchester novels so I have to read the prequel. The 'lose the religion' instruction is interesting as it's one of the things I like about the books and miss in the TV series, enjoyable though that is.
The St Matthew Passion would convert anyone, I think!
Commented Aug 22, 2018 on Keeping the faith at Cornflower Books
Keeping the faith
James Runcie's event at the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday was originally titled "Losing my religion" and billed as "an intimate and frank account of his writing life". It was a first for me at the festival: no chairman, no questions, just the speaker taking the stage, holding his ...
Greywalls looks fab, especially the glasshouse.
Oh, lucky you to have been at Lord's that day!
callmemadam, still mysteriously signed n as D.
Commented Aug 16, 2018 on Gadding about at Cornflower
Gadding about
I've been hither and yon lately, as close to home as East Lothian for a couple of days at Greywalls, then a flying visit to Devon to see family, train to London - and full marks to GWR whose staff on the Exeter to Paddington Friday evening service were the nicest people you could hope to m...
callmemadam here.
I'm reading A Beautiful Game by Mark Nicholas, which is only of interest to cricket lovers. In tandem, the most recent No.1 Ladies Detective Agency book. Perhaps your interest in cattle has been inspired by Mma Ramotswe?
Commented Jun 23, 2018 on Friday reads at Cornflower Books
Friday reads
I'm well on with Writers as Readers, a collection of the introductions to Virago Modern Classics from which I quoted the other day, and finding myself playing a "would I read that?" game as I go, for some of the pieces are much more successful than others at inviting a potential reader (...
callmemadam writes:
I can recommend The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge. My daughter lent it to me, showing that if a children's books is good, all ages can enjoy it. Didn't C S Lewis say that a children's book which could not be enjoyed by adults was not a good book?
Thanks for the tip about A Skinful of Shadows. I'll put it on my list.
Commented Jun 21, 2018 on A Skinful of Shadows at Cornflower Books
A Skinful of Shadows
I was interested to read what CILIP Carnegie Medal-winner Geraldine McCaughrean said recently about the current world of children's and young adult books, specifically publishers' wish to limit vocabulary,* and exclude "unacceptable" content if a book is to be sold into schools - as this a...
Thank you.
Commented Jun 12, 2018 on Skymeadow: Notes from an English Gardener at Cornflower Books
Skymeadow: Notes from an English Gardener
Observational, philosophical, romantic, optimistic, grounded, organic ... some of my notes on Charlie Hart's Skymeadow, a worthy addition to the shelf of gardening memoirs. Charlie's book is not a 'how to', or a straightforward 'what I did', but rather an account of the creation of a garde...
I see I'll have to read this, thanks for the winning description.
callmemadam. When I try to sign in, I get told the connection is not secure. It used to work! Duh.
Commented Jun 12, 2018 on Skymeadow: Notes from an English Gardener at Cornflower Books
Skymeadow: Notes from an English Gardener
Observational, philosophical, romantic, optimistic, grounded, organic ... some of my notes on Charlie Hart's Skymeadow, a worthy addition to the shelf of gardening memoirs. Charlie's book is not a 'how to', or a straightforward 'what I did', but rather an account of the creation of a garde...
Lovely socks and so nice to have you back!
callmemadam, still unable to log in :-(
Commented Jun 9, 2018 on It's raining socks - part 1 at Cornflower
It's raining socks - part 1
Drippity Drop Socks (pattern by Kay Jones), made in Viola sock yarn 'Muscari'.
Not the wrteched D but callmemadam.
I'm so very sorry to hear this news. Thinking of you and your family.
Commented Apr 17, 2018 on Dear friends, at Cornflower Books
Dear friends,
My father passed away very suddenly this morning. You'll understand if I am absent for a while. Karen
So annoying, I can't sign in today but callmemadam here.
I'm so sorry to hear of Mr C's illness and very glad he's on the mend. I missed your posts!
Commented Apr 11, 2018 on Now, where were we? at Cornflower Books
Now, where were we?
I'll spare you all the dramatic details, but my absence over the last few weeks has been down to Mr. C's having double pneumonia requiring hospitalisation. I'm glad to say that he is now much recovered and back at work, and life is returning to normal*. Posts may still be sporadic though...
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