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Sister Peters in Amsterdam crushed Nurse in Holland. (ten votes to none)
Blow Hot, Blow Cold decimated Tempestuous April
Fate is Remarkable edged out Damsel in Green
Tulips for Augusta squeaked by Tangled Autumn
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Tabitha in Moonlight blew out The Fifth Day of Christmas
After some consideration, I have decided to introduce a Wild Card round (much later in the game than this!). So, what you can do is harbor your grievances close to your bosom and unleash them for redress at a later date. (Damsel in Green may be such a one.) They may (if garnering enough votes) win their way back into the game.
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So, let's get going with the Second Round picks (links provided when you click on the title if your recall of Bettydom is not encyclopedic):
Wish with the Candles vs. Saturday's Child
Uncertain Summer vs. Victory for Victoria
Winter of Change vs. Cassandra by Chance
Three for a Wedding vs. Stars Through the Mist
Enchanting Samantha vs. The Gemel Ring
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Once again I'm first up.
ReplyDeleteWish With the Candles
Victory for Victoria (it makes me want to go to Guernsey)
Cassandra by Chance
Three for a Wedding
Enchanting Samantha
Ahhh. Big happy sigh -- no close calls in this round. Thank you Betty Keira.
I had two close calls this time...
ReplyDeleteSaturday's Child, Saturday's Child, Saturday's Child (that's good for 3 votes, right?)
Victory for Victoria (this one was a hard pick)
CASSANDRA BY CHANCE!!!! (Sure to make the play-offs)
Stars Through the Mist (snogging amidst the orphans)
Enchanting Samantha (another squeeker...)
Betty Keira,
ReplyDeleteYou are twitting me and I love you for it. Never had a sister to fuss with, always felt as though I was missing something.
Your distress for "Damsel" (damsel in distress)caused me to wonder if that was the only instance of La Neels reaching for Dutch inspiration of the liquid variety. I decided to look over the A.V. Wees distillery site to see if I could find any clues,
our Betty being sometimes a tad repetitive in her themes. Wees is one of the oldest distilleries in the Netherlands (liqueurs and genevers being their specialities) and I discovered just enough similarities to make me suspicious. Check out these liqueur names:
Heaven on Earth, Rose without Thorns (!) Perfect Happiness, and Pineapple and Rose spirits. I am on to you, Mrs.Neels. I just don't know how you missed "Tears of the Bride"....
I shall now make a pot of Earl Grey in my brown betty teapot and ponder my second round picks, I will pretend my couch is a chaise longue.
I forgot nascar SPORTS nascar SPORTS :)
Betty von Susie
Betty Barbara here--
ReplyDeleteResplendent now in her neon pink cast and ready to pick her round 2 winners:
Saturday's Child (love the ending--just love it)
Uncertain Summer (a default pick because I really didn't like Victoria)
Cassandra by Chance, of course!
Stars through the Mist (orphans trump homicidal child)
Gemel Ring (that was a coin flip--I liked neither book!)
Just got through reading Sister Peters and Matilda's Wedding. You aren't making this easy Betty Keira. I don't really care to vote again today. (Michigan had the primary today, just finished the REAL voting) Gotta leave now. Loved Sr. Pete amd Matilda, no time left. Gotta scoot. Fiddle de dee and other chic-let sentiments. I'll think about UJD voting tomorrow. Enjoying this when I get the time to look in. Bless you all, BettyMary
ReplyDeleteBetty Barbara again--
ReplyDeleteJust to compliment Betty Keira on all of the good chick stuff. Especially the lovely pool of Chocolate!
Yes! Kudos to Betty Keira on the whirling chocolate vortex of deliciousness-but I don't think the skinny chick in the photo underneath would ever indulge (unlike me).
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AACCKK!! Some of my favorites are up against each other here!
ReplyDelete*Saturday's Child - because of the stepladder! I *adore* the ending. But... just sayin' that Wish with the Candles is another beloved fav. Dear Emma and her appendix.
*Uncertain Summer - Hugo and Sarah are in it plus Victory for Victoria is just not one of Betty's best, IMO.
*Cassandra by Chance - trudging up that hill with cakes, Benedict's rudeness, Ogre's Relish, the wedding. Love it.
*Stars through the Mist - I think this book has Betty's most romantic lines on p. 201/202. "That's our star...Do you not know that for every star in the heavens there is a man and a woman whose destinies are ruled by it? Perhaps they never meet, perhaps they meet too late or too soon, but just once in a while they meet at exactly the right moment and their destinies and their lives become one." Love it. But... just sayin' that I love Three for a Wedding too. Nothing like a marriage proposal in the midst of the pots and pans in the department store.
*Enchanting Samantha - surgeons doing dishes, a bomb, Rolf and Sappha + baby again, rhubarb jam. Great story.
Betty AnoninTX
Wish with the Candles for all its unconventional touches
ReplyDeleteUncertain Summer, though don't much care for either one
Cassandra of course
Three for a Wedding for the genuinely detestable Maureen
Enchanting Samantha for the marvelous dish-washing hero & his mentor
Dear Founding Bettys,
ReplyDeleteI really haven't figured out how to comment as Betty Adrianne on the blog page, so I'm sending my votes for the current bracket via e-mail:
Saturday's Child
I love the knitting references in Victory, but the winner for me is Uncertain Summer
Cassandra by Chance
Stars Through the Mist
...and squeaking barely ahead other the competition, Enchanting Samantha.
from a faithful Betty,
Wish with the Candles
DeleteUncertain Summer
Cassandra by Chance
(haven't read Three for a Wedding)
Enchanting Samantha
Wish with the Candles
ReplyDelete(Can't forgive Dumbinic for not paying her in SC)
Victory for Victoria
(Serena in US is an idiot)
Cassandra By Chance Ogre's Relish *sigh*
(I wanted to name my dream cottage Elfin Grot-but that is now street slang for a drug house that serves "magic" mushrooms)
Stars in the Mist
(Unrequited Love-my heart aches for the poor girl)
Enchanting Samantha
(Giles was dreamy but Samantha was a hard pill to swallow)
Betty von Susie
"...but Samantha was a hard pill to swallow". And doesn't it seem worse that the title is 'Enchanting Samantha'? I'm with you Betty von Susie.
ReplyDeleteI always read that with "enchanting" as a verb, not a modifier...
DeleteHe tells her several times in the course of the story that she is 'enchanting' - even addresses her as 'enchanting Samantha' once or twice. I've never had any problem with her, incidentally.
DeleteYou all know the derivation, right? "En - chanter": to sing against -- it began it's life as a much more scary word, more akin to 'ensorcelling' than 'adorable.'
Taming of the Shrew-mantha would be more apt.
DeleteBetty von Susie
Showed up in my e-mail this morning: "Say you had a brother-in-law who wanted to read just one Betty Neels book. Which one would you recommend?"
ReplyDeleteYikes! Choose carefully, Bettys!
Sister Peters in Amsterdam (Since it is the beginning of Neelsdom, after all)
DeleteEr...
Or maybe...
Betty Anonymous
Oooo! That's a hard one. It must involve Holland (not Scotland, Portugal, nor Norway), it must have a spunky nurse Araminta, the hero must be an RDD, and it must have a love-to-hate other woman. There aren't that many good choices that I've read that fit ALL those stereotypical criteria. I would say Hasty Marriage, Girl Named Rose, or Final Touch.
DeleteEr, none... oops is that too negative, sorry! Perhaps it should be a book with more interior dialogue by the Professor/Hero, so later years Betty? Or the one where she goes to the Balkans in a Hurricane? Or the one where they go to rescue the nanny from Poland, though that book first half was better than the second.
DeleteBetty AnHK
Saturday's Child (I ♥ it)
ReplyDeleteUncertain Summer (I ♥ it)
Cassandra by Chance (I ♥ it)
Stars Through the Mist (I ♥ it)
Enchanting Samantha (I like it)
Betty Anonymous
Saturday's Child
ReplyDeleteVictory for Victoria
Cassandra by Chance
Stars Through the Mist
Enchanting Samantha
Betty AnHK