Now that we've reviewed all the books in the canon, Betty Keira and I both have a little more time for discretionary reading - and other things.
- Beyond the Foothills
- The Tender Leaves
- A Mountain for Luenda
- Goblin Hill
- Return to Dragonshill
- Heir to Windrush Hill
- The Bay of the Nightingales
- The Lake of the Kingfisher
- The House on Gregor's Brae
- A Touch of Magic
What are you reading?
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| And now all I had to do is keep it clean... |
Besides reading, I've been redecorating the office that I share with Dr. van der Stevejinck. We took a boatload of crap stuff out, and I'm carefully editing what comes back in. Dr. van der Stevejinck has a proper desk in the opposite corner, mine (as you can probably tell) is a reclaimed closet space. I've managed to pare down what's around my space, but I did include embroidery supplies (now that I don't have as much time with The Great Betty, I'll have a chance to do a little needlework...like the Araminta that I am), and my painting supplies (Ha! I bet I fooled you into thinking that I'm artistic).
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| Stay tuned for my amateurish attempts at embroidery. |
Betty Barbara here--
ReplyDeleteI just read Lucilla Andrews My Friend the professor. You will recall that Lucilla's books were mentioned as possibles for Life After Betty.
I am still mulling over the book in my mind and hope to get my thoughts organized soon. I'll send the Founding Bettys an e-mail when I do.
Right now I have no spare time--I'm headed back to the hospital for more surgery next week. So I have to get the house organized so Mijnheer van der Tarheelin and son can survive for the 3 days I'll be in hospital. Hey, I have a very nice stack of carry-out menus that should serve them quite well-3 different pizza places within a 5 -10 minute drive. What more could they ask for?
Good luck on your surgery! I'm pretty sure your family won't starve to death in 3 days (I once left my six kids for 2 1/2 weeks, plus my husband was out of town on business for the first several days...my kids survived pretty much on frozen pizza and cold cereal - the youngest was around seven years old - the oldest two were high school graduates of 18 and 19).
ReplyDeleteI still haven't read any Lucilla Andrews...hmm...I just checked my local library system and they don't have ANY of her books. I've been sort of keeping an eye out at Goodwill - no luck there. I guess I'll have to plan a visit to my local creepy used book store.
Betty Debbie--
ReplyDeleteThank you for your good wishes. This is just another step in Betty Barbara's drive to become Titanium Woman. I already have two metal knees; now I'm getting my first metal hip. It should be fairly routine...
Lucilla Andrews is very hard to come by. I bought this book off Amazon Marketplace for not very much, as my library system didn't have any of her stuff. But it is a 1967 printing of a 1960 paperback and it sure is showing its age!
I'm still reading my way through The Canon (my comments on Magic in Vienna will be going up in a few minutes). Otherwise, I reread a Mira Stables -- I highly recommend her for Regency romances with no mention of Brighton -- and blogged about it here.
ReplyDeleteQuilting and working on my book -- that's my life apart from required gardening and/or housework. Next week I'm driving to Boston to visit my cousin, which takes the gardening & quilting out of the equation, although I'll still need to get my daily allotment of words done.
By the way, in case Betty Miranda wanders by, she just completed a manuscript, so we're all excited about getting to read more by her. (Her characters visit Brighton, but in a very high-class sort of way.)