by Robert Barnard
Another Felony & Mayhem selection. A small boy who is evacuated from London during WWII is never reclaimed by his parents. Interesting but forgettable.
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what we've read, what we're reading, and what we might read next
in the stack: books I'm planning to read
- Beauty Will Save the World by Gregory Wolfe
- Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
- Campion by Evelyn Waugh
- One Second After by William Forstchen
- I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse by Michael Franzese
- The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
- Led by Faith by Imaculee Ilibagiza
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- 100 Years of Solitude by GGM
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
- Lonely Hearts by John Harvey
- The Story of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
- Bang the Drum Slowly
- Provincial Lady books by E. M. Delafield
- Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
- The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni
- Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives and Daughters; North and South; Mary Barton
- H. Rider Haggard: She; Kind Solomon's Mines
- Dickens: Dombey and Son
- A Stolen Season by Steve Hamilton
- The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
- Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
- Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
- An Easy Way to Become a Saint by Fr. Paul Sullivan
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- sequels to Mutiny on the Bounty by Nordhoff & Hall
some favorites
- Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin series
- PG Wodehouse: many many titles
- Jane Austen's 6 novels
- Ring Lardner: You Know Me Al
- Josephine Tey: The Franchise Affair; Brat Farrar
- The Provincial Lady in America by E. M. Delafield
- George Smiley books by John le Carre
- A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Colin Dexter: Inspector Morse mysteries
- Agatha Christie (esp. Miss Marple)
- Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone; The Woman in White
- Ngaio Marsh mysteries
- Bruce Marshall: The World, The Flesh, and Father Smith
- Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight
- James Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small series
- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Charles Dickens
casually suggested
- Joseph Heller: Catch 22
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- Elizabeth Peters Egyptian series
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- Ramage series
- Horatio Hornblower series
- Elizabeth Ironside (mystery)
- Deborah Crombie (mystery)
- Iain Pears' "Art History Mysteries"
good books for kids
Index of authors & genres
- anthology
- austen
- barnard
- barry
- baseball
- book swap
- bowen
- bruce marshall
- c graham
- carlon
- Catholic
- christie
- classics
- connolly
- craig
- crawford
- crime
- crispin
- crombie
- delafield
- detective
- dexter
- dickens
- dombey and son
- edwin o'connor
- favorites
- felony and mayhem
- fitness
- flannery o'connor
- forbes
- franzese
- george eliot
- godden
- greene
- hair
- hardy
- harvey
- hemon
- herriot
- highsmith
- history
- hope
- humor
- hunter
- ironside
- juvenile
- karen
- killilea
- klavan
- knight
- kohn
- lardner
- le carre
- leon
- lewis
- malamud
- mark harris
- marsh
- massey
- meyer
- moody
- mystery
- neufeld and mata
- noakes
- nordhoff and hall
- ollestad
- parenting
- patrick o'brian
- pd james
- pears
- percy
- phillips
- plus
- politics
- pope
- rankin
- running
- sanderson
- sayers
- schecter
- schuler
- sci-fi
- sea books
- siegle and hartzell
- sienkiewicz
- spiritual
- stark
- steve hamilton
- steyn
- strunk and white
- tey
- thriller
- twain
- undset
- vine
- walsh
- walter miller
- walters
- waugh
- westlake
- wilkie collins
- winspear
- winton
- wodehouse
- writing
- yardley
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3 comments:
Hi Jill,
I just began Out of the Blackout, and did a google blog search to see if anyone else had read it. Your entry came up. I wonder if I will feel the same way. Right now, only a few pages in, I am riveted. I'll be back to visit some more. I have an old 'My Bookhouse - In the Nursery' which is a treasure.
Maybe I was too harsh. It was pretty good. But so often I'm left cold by characters. I should find more Barnards. He can write.
Thanks for the comment :)
Yes, they are treasures. I have three: Through Fairy Halls, Up One Pair of Stairs, and The Latchkey. I'd love to have all six. My sisters and I had them as children, though I think the covers were black. The green ones are lovely. :)
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