1. Mr Darcy's Christmas - Barbara Silkstone 6/28/16 Cute, but no biggie. Lizzie & her sisters find a 7-year-old girl & her dog on London's streets in a sleet storm. She's a runaway because her drunken mother doesn't want the dog. Darcy organizes a Father Christmas party for the 8 children after taking all the Bennet girls & Georgiana to Harrod's to ( Read more... )

nlbarber, may the Birthday Tixie have really good filk for you.

I'm just back from my 50th high school reunion, didn't dare use the internet en route or back for fear of malware - not at the school, no _time_ there. So, here you are, 6 days late.

Dreams of My Father - Barack Hussein Obama 5/29/16 Very good. Should have read it years ago.
Going to read The Audacity of Hope.

False Profits - Patricia Smiley 5/27/ ( Read more... )

Am now caught up to current output for several still-writing authors and  finished the works of several others! TBR list getting shorter. However, next month I have to work on needlepoint for a family wedding and will only have my kindle, which has many Amazon freebies of dubious quality on it. I'll keep the numbers honest, but expect more than one ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, desert_vixen, and thanks to stoutfellow for the heads up.

to mmegaera, and thanks to stoutfellow for the reminder.

Meg, may your new travels be safe, and fun, and sources for another book.

Please go to the last entry and read up. I"m afraid if I try to rearrange I'll lose the whole thing.

Treasure in Oxford - David Williams 3/31/16 Mark Treasure #12 Mark is in Oxford for a meeting of an architecture trust. Two of the trustees are art experts, another collects. Three examples of what -might- be Constable's work show up, with iffy ( Read more... )

The Other David - Carolyn Coker 2/29/16, published 1984. Andrea Perkins, a restorer of paintings at the Galleria dell' Accademia in Florence, is given a very old dirty painting by an elderly priest, who said it had been in his family for a very long time, he was the only one left, and it belonged with the other one. She didn't understand him very ( Read more... )

I'm having the weirdest day - between being at church this AM for a meeting, then assorted ads for the SuperBowl (which I have no intention of watching even if a former Bear is the coach. which /might/ make me change my mind)( I know the advertising is more entertaining than usual, but I really don't want to see guys getting concussions, having had ( Read more... )

Ladle to the Grave - Connie Archer 1/31/16 Soup Lover's Mystery #4 A local women's group celebrates Beltane Eve with May wine, the herbs for which Lucky's grandfather Jack supplied, picking woodruff in the woods. Agnes Warner drinks the whole bowlful and dies within minutes. Her husband Leonard blames Jack, who gets flashbacks to his WWII shipwreck ( Read more... )