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Showing posts with label Elswyth Thane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elswyth Thane. Show all posts
Saturday, June 6, 2026

Six Degrees of Separation - from The Post-Office Girl to Happy Landings

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 It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best . We all start at the same place as other readers, add six boo...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Frequently Recommend

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Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl . This week’s theme is a freebie, up to eac...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Top Ten Tuesday: Satisfying Book Series

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Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl . This week's theme is Satisfying Book ...
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Monday, August 26, 2024

Two's Company - set during the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg

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Whe Claire Farrell left New York, heading south in her new convertible, it was ostensibly to visit her grandparents in Williamsburg, but rea...
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Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Annam Jewel by Patricia Wentworth #DeanStreetDecember23

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Title : The Annam Jewel Author : Patricia Wentworth Publication : Dean Street Press, paperback, originally published in 1925 Genre : Mystery...
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Saturday, April 15, 2023

England Was an Island Once by Elswyth Thane – for the #1940Club

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Title : England Was an Island Once Author : Elswyth Thane Publication : Harcourt, Brace and Company, hardcover, 1940 Genre : Memoir/History ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

My October 2022 Reads

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I read several entertaining books for the 1929 Club but the novel that most captured my interest last month was Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and...
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Saturday, November 5, 2022

Six Degrees of Separation – from The Naked Chef to The Clothes They Stood Up In

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It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best . We all start at the same place, add six books, and see where ...
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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Cloth of Gold by Elswyth Thane for the #1929Club

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Title : Riders of the Wind (1926) and Cloth of Gold (1929) Author : Elswyth Thane Genre : Fiction Setting : 20th century Description : Alexa...
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Thursday, March 3, 2022

My February 2022 Reads

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Seven of my nineteen February books were rereads, a much higher percentage than usual; indicating some comfort reading, I suppose. Sometimes...
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Saturday, February 19, 2022

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

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Title : Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Author : Erik Larson Narrator : Scott Brick Publication : Random House, audiobook, 201...
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Saturday, February 12, 2022

The Light Heart by Elswyth Thane, one of the Williamsburg Novels

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Title : The Light Heart Author : Elswyth Thane Publication : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, hardcover, 1947 Genre : Historical Fiction Setting : A...
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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds - for the 1936 Club

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Title : Drums Along the Mohawk Author : Walter D. Edmonds (1903-1998) Publication : Little, Brown & Co., hardcover, 1936 Genre : Histori...
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Saturday, March 6, 2021

Six Degrees of Separation - from Phosphorescence to Light a Single Candle

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It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best . We all start at the same place, add six books, and see where ...
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Saturday, September 5, 2020

Six Degrees of Separation - From The Proud Way to Little Women

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It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best . We all start at the same place as other readers, add six boo...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Cult-favorite Tryst by Elswyth Thane (1939)

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Title : Tryst Author : Elswyth Thane Publication : Aeonian Press, hardcover, 1974 (originally published in 1939) Genre : Fiction/Romanc...
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Monday, March 9, 2020

Six Degrees of Separation: From Wolfe Island to The Children of Green Knowe

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Australian author Lucy Treloar’s Wolfe Island , a dystopian novel set in Chesapeake Bay, is this month’s starting point for Six Degrees of ...
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Saturday, February 23, 2019

Patriot Hearts by Barbara Hambly

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Title : Patriot Hearts Author : Barbara Hambly Publication : Bantam Books, trade paper, 2008 Genre : Historical Fiction TBR Chall...
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

The Alice Network (Book Review)

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Title : The Alice Network Author : Kate Quinn Publication : William Morrow paperback , 2017 Genre : Historical Fiction Plot : In a fas...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Winter Woes

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Why one should not make a TBR pile on the floor with one's new Robert Goddard books, ordered specially from England: because when the...
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