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Carolyn: My favourite things are mostly books and flowers, my husband and our cat. Gardens, tea, period dramas, old fashioned clothes, the 19th century, England and France, historical fiction and classic novels by mostly female authors also fit the bill. (I used to blog at A Few of My Favourite Books, now I'm here.)

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Tales from the Reading Room

Best Books of the Year
1 day ago
The Captive Reader

Library Loot: December 18 to 24
2 days ago
You Book Me All Night Long

Mini-Reviews: Bride, Beau, Tomb
4 days ago
Jane Austen's World

December in Jane Austen’s World
4 days ago
Book Snob

A fresh start
1 year ago
books as food

"...the time had come for The Cull"
1 year ago
Books and Chocolate

Back To the Classics Challenge 2022: The Winner!
1 year ago
Cosy Books

The Gentlewomen by Laura Talbot
2 years ago
Vintage Reads

Rebecca
4 years ago
EmilyBooks

A byline picture
6 years ago
Sasha & The Silverfish

Worthy of the nothingness
6 years ago
The Picky Girl

Fridays at Home: My MCM Treasure Hunt
6 years ago
Novel Readings

Novel Readings Has A New Address
7 years ago
things mean a lot

Powell’s (and Oregon)
7 years ago
Gudrun's Tights

A New Home
7 years ago
Iris on Books

Reading, Lately
8 years ago
A Striped Armchair

The Next Chapter
9 years ago
The Literary Stew

Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness by Jennifer Tseng
9 years ago
flowers and stripes

The Face
11 years ago
Autobiography of an Anglophile

The Penguin English Library Project
11 years ago
Nose in a Book

12 years ago
The Woodland Library

Waiting on Wednesday (10)
13 years ago
Maple & a Quill
kiss a cloud

Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Penderwicks at Gardam Street, Jeanne Birdsall
The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
House of Many Ways, Diana Wynne Jones
Madame de Pompadour, Evelyne Lever
Emma, Jane Austen
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939, Katie Roiphe
Gigi, Colette
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
Cheri, Colette
Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
Ink Exchange, Melissa Marr
Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
Fire & Hemlock, Diana Wynne Jones
Miss Buncle Married, D.E. Stevenson
Miss Buncle's Book, D.E. Stevenson
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
The Masque of the Black Tulip, Lauren Willig
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, Lauren Willig
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Evelina, Fanny Burney