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Mandy | Julie Andrews Edwards

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What a sweet story! Yes, I cried during the Winter chapters.😭 I heard that in 1968 Julie & husband Blake Edwards were shooting a movie in Ireland at an old manor house enclosed with thick walls & a cottage decorated entirely with seashells. “The moment I saw it, Julie says, “the seed of a story lodged in my mind.” Thrilled this amazing actress/singer added writing children‘s books to her repertoire.🤩🙌🏻
#ChildrensClassicRead2025
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slategreyskies I was thinking about you earlier this week, but I couldn‘t remember your new screen name to say hi. Glad I stumbled across this post! Sending you a hug! 🫂 🤍 5d

AnnCrystal 📚💝📚💝📚. 5d

TheBookHippie I just love this book. I‘m so glad you enjoyed it. 💚💚💚💚💚 5d

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MemoirsForMe @slategreyskies So happy to reconnect! Been thinking about you too. I‘m very behind on my letters as usual. 😉 Happy Summer! Hope life is treating you well and your latest books are making you smile. Big hugs back to you! 🤗❤️ 5d

MemoirsForMe @AnnCrystal 🤗❤️📚 5d

MemoirsForMe @TheBookHippie Me too! Thanks for adding another great read to my list. 🙌🏻 5d

TheBookHippie @MemoirsForMe They sure are a balm for our weary souls! (edited) 5d

Deblovestoread How did I not know this was written by THE Julie Andrew‘s! 🤯 4d

MemoirsForMe @TheBookHippie You got that right! ❤️❤️❤️ 4d

MemoirsForMe @Deblovestoread THE one and only! She tricked us by using her married name. 😉 4d

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NovelNancyM

Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline

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I re-read this for book club and enjoyed it once again. Both the characters Molly and Vivian are delightful and their lives have similar parallels. Enjoyable for readers of historical fiction.

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Butterfinger

Mandy | Julie Andrews Edwards

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It may be menopause, but Mandy has made emotional. A realistic look of an orphan who experienced bitterness and frustration because she doesn't understand the feelings of desiring something of her own. She thinks it's a cottage she needs, but it's a family.

It just reminds me of the peace and joy of reading my wonderful books as a child. The font, the yellowing pages, the smell, all make me forget I am an adult and I back to simpler times.

Butterfinger @TheBookHippie thank you for this challenge. As a child, I would have preferred Sara Crewe or Mary Lenox to Mandy, but in this time of my life, Mandy is more realistic of children. Wanting more than life offers. Whew, Mary Poppins, I didn't know you could write. #ChildrensClassicRead2025 2w

TheBookHippie @Butterfinger ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ it‘s such a good read. 2w

MemoirsForMe Great review! 🙌🏻 5d

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LeahBergen

Come Back, Lucy | Pamela Sykes

I just remembered to pull this off my shelves, @Centique , after I mentioned it on your time travel post. This is the American edition; does it look like it matches the ‘70s TV show at all? 😄

Centique Oh yes it does! In the show it is all because of the mirror she finds at her cousins house I think? I am going to a secondhand bookshop next week that specialises in children‘s books so I am going to look for this! 1mo

Centique Thanks for showing me your version! I love that art style too 😍 1mo

LeahBergen @Centique I hope you find it! Buddy read? 😄 1mo

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Centique @LeahBergen definitely! Fingers crossed! 1mo

Centique No luck so far sorry Leah. Ill keep looking! 3w

LeahBergen @Centique Oh, darn! 3w

rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen @Centique I think I have both of these books. I‘ll have to check. 2w

LeahBergen @rubyslippersreads And now I want to see them! 😆 2w

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Centique

Come Back, Lucy | Pamela Sykes

It was this tv show in the late 70s that made me love time travel - being able to visit your grandparents as children in the early 1900s! Time travel novels for me can be escapist fantasy or dystopian sci fi - sometimes a delight, sometimes a disaster - and my tastes have moved from fantasy towards dystopia lately #timetraveltop5 @Ruthiella
1 - The Time Travellers Wife
2 - Outlander
3 - Doomsday Book
4 - Black Out/All Clear
5 - Kindred

Centique If you have some time travel faves, feel free to make a list too! @Dragon @LeahBergen @Ruthiella 1mo

Centique And then there are the kids time travel books like

Tom's Midnight Garden

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Luke-XVX I recently re-bought Toms Midnight Garden. I remember reading the school libraries copy a lot 1mo

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AlaMich I also recommend this one by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. It‘s a bit of a chunkster but worth it.

Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

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LeahBergen I have a copy of the tagged book! I must get to it soon! 1mo

julesG @AlaMich the audiobook of D.O.D.O. is good 1mo

AlaMich @julesG I know! I listened and read the print edition. Have you read the sequel?

Master of the Revels: A Return to Neal Stephenson's D.O.D.O.

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julesG @AlaMich Yes. Like you, book+audiobook. 1mo

Centique @Luke-XVX I remember it being so good, I must re-read it! 1mo

Centique @AlaMich @julesG I have that on my TBR but I must move it up! I will look for the audiobook. 1mo

Centique @LeahBergen oh wow! I only found out it was also a book yesterday. I will look for a copy too 😍 1mo

Dragon I also liked

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

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Centique @Dragon ooh that looks really good too! I have such a good TBR of time travel books now 🙌 1mo

Dragon I think you‘re going to enjoy it. I just finished another time travel book that I enjoyed

The Third Rule of Time Travel

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rubyslippersreads Bid Time Return (I prefer it to the movie based on it, Somewhere in Time) and

Time at the Top

Centique @rubyslippersreads that sounds great! I am going to try and find a copy 🤞 2w

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TheSpineView

The Secret of Zoom | Lynne Jonell

#Bibliophile @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 💜 2mo

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melissajayne

Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline

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4.5⭐️ I really liked the book, but I didn‘t really enjoy the Molly sections as much as the Vivian sections simply because I felt that Molly was a little too fiesty for my taste. #2025 #bookreview #historicalfiction #reread #fiction

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