bailedI think Nancy Mitford‘s life and family are fascinating, and I wanted to read this book because it upset her family when it was published, especially the Nazi sympathizer members. She refused to let it be reprinted in her lifetime, partly because of the mediocre sales numbers and reviews, but mainly because she wanted to keep the peace within her family. I bailed. She‘s a good writer but the story and characters just didn‘t keep me interested.
pickTraveling south always makes me nostalgic for this sweet series about a Episcopalian priest in North Carolina. Since we were in the Georgia islands last week I returned to this one which has our preacher filling in on the coast.
My wild Friday night continued
Friday in the couch with a warm blanket and a cat.
pickA good way to relax as we peek into the lives of Jan Karon‘s Mitford people. Lacey and Dooley are finally getting married! They plan to have an old-fashioned country wedding, but a few surprises are on their way.
This is an add-on to one of my favorite series about the village of Mitford, with collected wisdom from one of the main characters Father Tim 🩷
“Middle age is when you‘ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”Ogden Nash
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pickSweet Violet is the last of the litter to find a home - she tries the bakery, plant nursery, and grocery; but at last she finds her home at a pleasant little bookshop. The children love this for a bedtime story each time they visit 🐱📚💙
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pickI don‘t know what the Mitford family found so offensive about this book; they don‘t particularly come out of it looking bad. Diana and Unity are called Nazis and pro-fascists — which they were — but Jessica cannot hide her sympathy and love for Unity. Nancy comes off as a little mean and not very serious. But the truth is they aren‘t in the book much. The memoir covers Decca‘s life from her childhood to when her first husband left for the war.
From what I read in The Six and The Sisters, I fully expected this book to be full of vitriol and hysteria, but so far that‘s not the case.
pickAnother readable but biased book about the Mitford sisters. Again, everything Diana says and does is excused because of her beauty while Jessica is disparaged because she was a Communist. Mocking remarks about the death of Jessica‘s baby are even excused because after all her husband had been known to play some horrible pranks; whereas, we are expected to feel sorry for Diana when she‘s taken to to prison before her healthy baby is weaned.🙄
