Litsy

Ok Aussie Secret Santa recipients, where the bloody hell are you? It‘s most definitely Christmas Eve here and I‘ve opened my beautiful #aussiesecretsanta parcel from @Freespirit
Will you look at these gorgeous gifts 👀🎁? Thank you Sally & thank you @CarolynM for organising this year 🙏.
Come on now, it‘s show and tell time…

LeahBergen Ooo, Nancy Mitford! Nice! 👍 1w

Jeg Someday you will have to explain to me how this all works so I can join in! 1w

CarolynM What a lovely lot of gifts you have there! I‘ll post mine now. Thanks for getting us started. Merry Christmas 🎄 🎅🧑‍🎄 1w

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag Lovely! Merry Christmas Serena! Hope it‘s a good one in your new place ☺️ 1w

AmyG Those are the best bookmarks! 1w

Rissreads @Jeg we would love to have you!!!!! Merry Christmas Serena and Joy ♥️💚 (edited) 1w

Freespirit Merry Christmas Serena😘😘 Have a wonderful day❤️ 1w

Jeg @Rissreads Merry Christmas to you. Have a day full of wonder. 1w

Jeg Dear Serena Merry Christmas and May your day be blessed with a pile of books and maybe sometime to just sit and read. X 1w

MrsMalaprop And to you @Jeg 📚. Let‘s do that Freo coffee soon & I‘ll reveal all 😚. 1w

Jeg Sounds like a plan. Xx 1w

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FashionableObserver

American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt | Karen Harper

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While this was a work of historical fiction, American Duchess has endeared Consuelo to me. I want to know more! I think my Fall Quest will be to read as much as I can about her. What a fascinating woman!

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FashionableObserver

American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt | Karen Harper

Because, sometimes, you just need something light and entertaining!

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LapReader

Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford

Tuesday‘s scores at the 📕 swap on the way home from work. I returned the day after with a replacement bag of 📚 for the swap. Had a massive long weekend so needed a 📕 swap blow out! We had been to a friend‘s 50th at a beach further up the coast and many crazy fun times were had. The beach was beautiful. It poured most of one day then the sun came out just in time for the 🥳 night. I danced so hard that night the 🍷 I drank came back out. Opps.

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readingjedi

The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford

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What a delightful treat this is! Writing that has that easy-breezy lightness of touch that makes your eyes just gobble it up, characters that are hilarious, ludicrous, sometimes hideous, events so ridiculous but also poignant, insightful, devastatingly real - just an utter joy to read! The satire is deliciously arch, the mocking merciless but affectionate & it feels so fresh! Such a rich reading experience - the perfect blend of funny & sad.

tpixie Great to hear!! This last year I read a lot of historical fiction featuring Nancy Mitford, and some of her siblings- and I‘ve been wanting to read this book- and more of her writings. What a very interesting family! 10mo

LeeRHarry I enjoy Nancy Mitford‘s books immensely 🥰 10mo

Aimeesue “Sewers!” always makes me laugh. I use it frequently 😂 10mo

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LeahBergen

Great Granny Webster (Revised) | Caroline Blackwood

I‘m loving this book!

It‘s weird and dark but so funny at times … like a gothic Nancy Mitford. 😆

MaureenMc Well, that description is intriguing. 🧐 10mo

Aimeesue I liked this one too. Glad you enjoyed it! 10mo

rubyslippersreads I‘ve been curious about this one. 10mo

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jlhammar Sounds fantastic! 10mo

Tamra It‘s such a great story! I could easily reread it. 10mo

Librarybelle What a description! Stacking! 10mo

Megabooks That cover!! 😍😍😍 10mo

BarbaraBB This sounds fabulous! 10mo

CarolynM I remember reading about Caroline Blackwood in the Tatler years ago. An interesting life. Stacking this one🙂 10mo

erzascarletbookgasm Sounds great! 10mo

Cathythoughts Definitely stacking ❤️ 10mo

batsy "Gothic Nancy Mitford" is all I needed to hear! 10mo

LeahBergen @MaureenMc It‘s weird and good. 😆 10mo

LeahBergen @Aimeesue It seems like “our” kind of book. 😊 10mo

LeahBergen @rubyslippersreads It‘s dark but good! 10mo

LeahBergen @jlhammar @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB @erzascarletbookgasm @batsy I hope you like it, too! 10mo

LeahBergen @Tamra It was so surprisingly good! 10mo

LeahBergen @Megabooks Right? It‘s awesome! 10mo

LeahBergen @CarolynM She seems fascinating! And this is semi-autobiographical, which is shocking. 😆 10mo

LeahBergen @Cathythoughts It‘s short and bizarre. I hope you like it, too! 10mo

Suet624 I‘m clearly going to have to find this one! 10mo

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bibliothecarivs

My History: A Memoir of Growing Up | Antonia Fraser

Recent acquisitions:

📖 My History: A Memory of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
📖 Essex Churches and Chapels: A Select Guide by Members of the Friends of Essex Churches
📖 How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
📖 The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner, translated by Andrew Porter

#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans

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Vansa

The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford

So funny..and so true.
So all my well read Littens, what are your opinions on the surprisingly dark ending she gives to this book?She doesn't end her other Radlett-Montdore books on a note of such sadness, why do you think she chose this ending for this one?

Ruthiella Maybe because Linda was based on her sister Diana and it was a more palatable fictional outcome than in real life Diana‘s marrying the leader and founder of the British Union of Fascists? 1y

Vansa @Ruthiella bit of a composite of all the sisters, the Communism was very Jessica and Nancy herself, though the leaving a family was Diana! Possibly, though.Just seems like a very sudden dark turn, maybe because of her own miscarriages? 1y

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Vansa

The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford