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FashionableObserver
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Pickpick

While this was a work of historical fiction, American Duchess has endeared Consuelo to me. I want to know more! I think my Fall Quest will be to read as much as I can about her. What a fascinating woman!

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FashionableObserver
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Because, sometimes, you just need something light and entertaining!

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LapReader
Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford
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Tuesday‘s scores at the 📕 swap on the way home from work. I returned the day after with a replacement bag of 📚 for the swap. Had a massive long weekend so needed a 📕 swap blow out! We had been to a friend‘s 50th at a beach further up the coast and many crazy fun times were had. The beach was beautiful. It poured most of one day then the sun came out just in time for the 🥳 night. I danced so hard that night the 🍷 I drank came back out. Opps.

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readingjedi
The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford
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What a delightful treat this is! Writing that has that easy-breezy lightness of touch that makes your eyes just gobble it up, characters that are hilarious, ludicrous, sometimes hideous, events so ridiculous but also poignant, insightful, devastatingly real - just an utter joy to read! The satire is deliciously arch, the mocking merciless but affectionate & it feels so fresh! Such a rich reading experience - the perfect blend of funny & sad.

tpixie Great to hear!! This last year I read a lot of historical fiction featuring Nancy Mitford, and some of her siblings- and I‘ve been wanting to read this book- and more of her writings. What a very interesting family! 10mo
LeeRHarry I enjoy Nancy Mitford‘s books immensely 🥰 10mo
Aimeesue “Sewers!” always makes me laugh. I use it frequently 😂 10mo
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LeahBergen
Great Granny Webster (Revised) | Caroline Blackwood
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I‘m loving this book!

It‘s weird and dark but so funny at times … like a gothic Nancy Mitford. 😆

MaureenMc Well, that description is intriguing. 🧐 10mo
Aimeesue I liked this one too. Glad you enjoyed it! 10mo
rubyslippersreads I‘ve been curious about this one. 10mo
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jlhammar Sounds fantastic! 10mo
Tamra It‘s such a great story! I could easily reread it. 10mo
Librarybelle What a description! Stacking! 10mo
Megabooks That cover!! 😍😍😍 10mo
BarbaraBB This sounds fabulous! 10mo
CarolynM I remember reading about Caroline Blackwood in the Tatler years ago. An interesting life. Stacking this one🙂 10mo
erzascarletbookgasm Sounds great! 10mo
Cathythoughts Definitely stacking ❤️ 10mo
batsy "Gothic Nancy Mitford" is all I needed to hear! 10mo
LeahBergen @MaureenMc It‘s weird and good. 😆 10mo
LeahBergen @Aimeesue It seems like “our” kind of book. 😊 10mo
LeahBergen @rubyslippersreads It‘s dark but good! 10mo
LeahBergen @Tamra It was so surprisingly good! 10mo
LeahBergen @Megabooks Right? It‘s awesome! 10mo
LeahBergen @CarolynM She seems fascinating! And this is semi-autobiographical, which is shocking. 😆 10mo
LeahBergen @Cathythoughts It‘s short and bizarre. I hope you like it, too! 10mo
Suet624 I‘m clearly going to have to find this one! 9mo
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bibliothecarivs
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Recent acquisitions:

📖 My History: A Memory of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
📖 Essex Churches and Chapels: A Select Guide by Members of the Friends of Essex Churches
📖 How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
📖 The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner, translated by Andrew Porter

#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans

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Vansa
The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford
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So funny..and so true.
So all my well read Littens, what are your opinions on the surprisingly dark ending she gives to this book?She doesn't end her other Radlett-Montdore books on a note of such sadness, why do you think she chose this ending for this one?

Ruthiella Maybe because Linda was based on her sister Diana and it was a more palatable fictional outcome than in real life Diana‘s marrying the leader and founder of the British Union of Fascists? 1y
Vansa @Ruthiella bit of a composite of all the sisters, the Communism was very Jessica and Nancy herself, though the leaving a family was Diana! Possibly, though.Just seems like a very sudden dark turn, maybe because of her own miscarriages? 1y
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Vansa
The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford
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Nancy Mitford is so insightful

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Booksnchill
The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford
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Part of my long running Nancy Mitford project. The was quite good on audio as well. Just prior to WW2 up until the end of the war and follows the sisters and daughters of Landed gentry- the Hons and the Counter-Hons. I am glad I read Jessica Mitford‘s Hons and Rebels first. 4 stars.

CarolynM An old favourite of mine❤️ Are you going on to Love in a Cold Climate? (edited) 2y
MaureenMc I love this book! It‘s my favorite of hers that I‘ve read so far. 2y
Booksnchill That is next up! 2y
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