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Posted: May 09 2007 at 1:16pm | IP Logged Quote Dawn
Has anyone read these books? They sound lovely.

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Posted: May 09 2007 at 1:35pm | IP Logged Quote Louise
They are wonderful! My oldest dd Sara use to read and reread them all the time. I'm sure she still does. Very English and homey.


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Posted: May 09 2007 at 1:39pm | IP Logged Quote chicken lady
Dawn I love Miss Read! All of them! They are easy lay back and escape novels. Written for a younger reader, but as an adult needing escape, I love these books.
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Posted: May 10 2007 at 2:30am | IP Logged Quote Alison

I still read/re-read them when I need some relaxing mother culture. They are beautifully written, incorporate nature comments and are pretty good sumaries on human nature! Most of her books were written for adults but there are severalchildren's titles also "Hob and the Horse-bat""Hobby Horse Cottage" and "Animal Boy" being ones we've collected.
One of my favourites is "fresh from the country":But as Margaret knew, there were things of the mind which could offer a more powerful refreshment of the spirit. As the years passed, she had found the distillation of men's experience, the essence of their emotions and beliefs in prose or poetry, a source of inner strength and comfort.......to recognise absolute goodness and absolute truth translated in terms of fine music, painting, or poetry was to feel that answering, powerful, thrilling rightness which one knew one shared with mankind the world over.
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Posted: May 10 2007 at 9:09am | IP Logged Quote Cay Gibson
They are worth collecting, Dawn.
I picked up two of them at a library book sale and really treasure them. I've been told they have a Midford flair but, since I haven't read Midford, I really cna't say for sure.

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Posted: May 10 2007 at 7:24pm | IP Logged Quote Dawn
Thank you for the thoughts, everyone! Bill told me to order the first book for Mother's Day!

I also ordered the latest Katherine Valentine book - The County Fair. I sure hope she writes more!

I've never read Mitford either, Cay. I can't imagine it being as wonderful as Dorsetville.

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Posted: May 11 2007 at 7:30am | IP Logged Quote Karen T
I'll have to look for the Miss Read series; I'm always looking for new series to try.
Dawn, have you read the rest of the Dorsetville series yet? I loved the first three but they sort of petered out IMO on the last two. I don't think she plans to write any more in that series, but I wonder if she'll write more of The Haunted Rectory series. That was pretty good and is still very similar to the Dorsetville setting and characters (with a little more supernatural thrown in).
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