tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post6614155988140518218..comments2024-03-25T09:03:39.020-07:00Comments on The Uncrushable Jersey Dress: Hilltop Tryst - 1989Betty Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16446092401692468002noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-38084429894983329772024-01-16T16:13:56.837-08:002024-01-16T16:13:56.837-08:00I just read Chain of Destiny so this hits just rig...I just read Chain of Destiny so this hits just right! Too funny!Betty Leenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-54017427244771681732023-02-19T08:03:54.425-08:002023-02-19T08:03:54.425-08:00“No, on second thoughts you had better open the le...“No, on second thoughts you had better open the letters. There are bound to be answers to my advertisement.” (For a companion for Great-Aunt Sybil) But from the little pile of letters Beatrice opened there were only three, and they didn’t sound at all hopeful. The first one made it a condition that she should bring her cat with her….. <br /><br />Om my goodness! Could it be that the chain of destiny almost linked Suzannah Lightfoot and her heroic cat Horace to Great Aunt Sybil, and thus to Beatrice and Oliver? Betty Meridith would really like to know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-83626817165220818692011-04-17T21:03:27.071-07:002011-04-17T21:03:27.071-07:00I liked the book too. It had some different fun el...I liked the book too. It had some different fun elements, and I liked the parents and familial relationships (except Great Aunt Sybil!) The cover is right and Oliver is really is nice.Ah well, I'm a bit scattered.opramumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04576604368249554678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-19360065221300496512011-04-17T19:40:17.472-07:002011-04-17T19:40:17.472-07:00Ahoy, Betty Cyndi!
I actually liked this book bet...Ahoy, Betty Cyndi!<br /><br />I actually liked this book better upon reading it again. That Beatrice fell for Colin and missed Oliver was implied pretty heavily when her 15-year-old sister observes that she is darn naïve about men (having spent more time with animals) and that just when she began to show an interest in Oliver (previously assuming he was married), she sees him after long bouts of staying up saving her father and realizes he was quite a bit older than she thought. Add to it that a practicing cardiologist in his or her element is indeed quite formidable regardless of casual hillside meetings.<br /><br />I like that she has nice parents. Her mother is concerned that Beatrice used Oliver in claiming an engagement until she found out that it was Oliver’s idea. Ahhhh…..<br /><br />It contains some lovely examples of how Mrs. Neels was just better than others:<br /><br />“Aunt Polly skewered his eyes with her own shrewd ones.”<br /><br />[His London housekeeper Rosie]: “The faintest glimmer of a smile did its best.”<br /><br />[After chasing down a burglar in her dressing gown]: “‘He could have turned nasty, miss,’ he [policeman] told her. She forebore from telling him that Great-Aunt Sybil could turn nasty too, especially if she had come downstairs and found her cabinets rifled. On the whole, she thought, she preferred the burglar.” SNORT <br /><br />p.s. Did anyone notice that They actually got the cover right?Betty JoDeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00552570070311742671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-24054279377437597722011-04-17T10:16:39.128-07:002011-04-17T10:16:39.128-07:00We miss you, you know.We miss you, you know.Keirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12334172370385784966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-62382584404680536422011-04-17T08:50:48.259-07:002011-04-17T08:50:48.259-07:00OK, I have to say, I disagree guys. I LIKE this b...OK, I have to say, I disagree guys. I LIKE this book. I LOVE the running down the street in the dressing gown scene, and Oliver at breakfast with the family (fits right in like he was made for it). He's patient and gentle, and there's not a harsh word between them. He slays all her dragons... she gives him credit somewhere toward the end when she says, "You're always there." Aunt Polly is a treat too... I love that she offers them a cat. :-)I thought the dialogue was, on the whole, above average. <br />One more week of lent!Cyndihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02736698086203251238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-46647926281595147292011-04-14T20:28:15.023-07:002011-04-14T20:28:15.023-07:00My impression was that The Great Betty was working...My impression was that The Great Betty was working through the flip side of the RDD's worries about being too old. Here, she gave her heroine what the heroine thought she wanted: a Younger Hero. Hah! Be careful what you wish for!<br /><br />It's all nonsense, of course -- anyone with a few synapses firing can see how heroic an RDD/REW is the moment he strides up that hill with a missing Jack Russell under one arm. It's just that if Beatrice has her dawning (literally: sunrise!) realization at the same time that Oliver had it, there's no conflict and it's a mighty short, if smarter, book.<br /><br />But I find this book way less troublesome than the ones where the "faux-mance" gets further along, e.g., <i><b>Uncertain Summer, Cruise to a Wedding, Midsummer Night's Magic, Not Once But Twice, Midsummer Star, The Daughter of the Manor</b></i>, and my really least favorite, <i><b>Off With the Old Love</b></i>.<br /><br />(That's my database coming through for me -- I have notes on all the books I've reread in the last year. Of course, there are still about 50 books to go. I gotta hurry up!)Magdalenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11551590278859598110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-12693367927305687222011-04-14T11:14:03.091-07:002011-04-14T11:14:03.091-07:00Yeah, Colin didn't make much sense to me eithe...Yeah, Colin didn't make much sense to me either. It's not like Beatrice was an heiress...and he didn't really even like her that much. Surely there were easier pickings to be had. Perhaps a wealthy greengrocer's daughter?Betty Debbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16446092401692468002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-28252268963388150012011-04-14T09:30:00.757-07:002011-04-14T09:30:00.757-07:00Betty Barbara here--
Well, I certainly understood ...Betty Barbara here--<br />Well, I certainly understood Beatrice falling for Colin. Young, handsome, dashing, etc. You are so right-he was the bit of excitement she was looking for and Oliver did not project 'excitement'. <br />And I understand her reluctance to tell her father that Colin is stalking her, but she should have broadcast it to the rest of her family and the village. Why didn't she make a big scene when he grabbed her?<br />And, of course, the bigger question, why didn't Colin cut his loses and seek greener pastures? <br />(Oh silly Betty Barbara--because we wouldn't have had a book now, would we?).<br />I loved, loved Ethel-but she was about all I loved about this book.<br />Madeira Cake seems like a fair grade.Barb in Marylandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374278685536530837noreply@blogger.com