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  <title><![CDATA[Miss Buncle's Book]]></title>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">12</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1982</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Miss Buncle's Book (Ulverscroft Romance)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Emily Stevenson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In an English village in the early 1930s, Miss Buncle finds her small private income dwindling and realizes she must earn some money; after considering various options, such as keeping hens, she writes a novel. Owing to what she claims is a congenital lack of imagination, she writes about her neighb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63587593">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Barbara Buncle has me beaming.<br/><br/>Actually it's Miss Buncle's book that's put the smile on my face. That is, DE Stevenson's 1934 novel, &quot;Miss Buncle's Book,&quot; which tells the story of the unassuming but highly observant Barbara Buncle, who pens a best-selling roman a clef about her co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63259543">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 10 05:46:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a charming light read, perfect for a bank holiday. Barbara Buncle is a naïve woman who is regarded with not very much seriousness by those around her. As she is in need of money she writes a book about the people in the village where she lives. The people – on the whole – hate it, and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52169622">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 16 11:31:44 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Have some hot buttered toast.&quot; This Persephone book (which I found at the library - yay!) is the equivalent of hot buttered toast. Of *smart* hot buttered toast. Miss Buncle writes a book about her English village and everything changes. Her transformation is a delight to witness, as are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37215511">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 08 12:15:49 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[sounds like just my cup of tea, I wrote when I first heard about it. So the Stone Ridge library produced a 1964 copy in two days. Much read, retaped and dog-earred. Perfect ambiance. I read it, howling with irresistible laughter, hoping 'my' neighbors who write were not listening. It's a jewel. And ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42366491">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While recovering from a stomach virus the Tuesday after Christmas, I read <em>Miss Buncle’s Book,</em> by D. E. Stevenson (a cousin of RLS).  It’s set during the 1930s, in an English village, where Barbara Buncle, spinster, is barely eking out a living on the remains of a private income. (The global econ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41455255">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44478167">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 26 21:17:27 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[D. E. Stevenson's crowning achievement, in my opinion, is Miss Buncle's Book. This charming story takes place in a small English village in the 1930s, when Barbara Buncle discovers that her income, like much of the world's financial resources, is disappearing. Desperately she tries to think of a way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44478167">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50687426">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Completely charming and funny, in a way that's intelligent without being difficult and cozy without turning sticky-sweet.  I had an edition from the 80s with a plain cover, from the library, and there was no indication of the original copyright or an author bio, so I read in blissful ignorance (but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50687426">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The storyline of Miss Buncle's Book (1934) is a simple one: Barbara Buncle, who is unmarried and perhaps in her late 30s, lives in a small village and writes a novel about it (under a pseudonym) in order to try and supplement her meagre income.<br/><br/>The book becomes a bestseller and the villag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69309089">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38499515">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Apr 07 13:46:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[While Miss Buncle's Book is a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/books/miss_buncles_book.htm">Persephone reprint</a> the copy I read was a very old library book that I was able to find at my local library. While I love reading the lovely Persephone books I also love reading old books so when I found this copy I went ahead and picked it up. There was still an old lib...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38499515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61147715">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 25 21:48:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my very favorite DE Stevenson books (I am a BIG fan of all her books!).  A story of a single lady in England who writes a book based on the people she knows in her small village, names changed of course.  The book becomes a best seller and when her neighbors read the book, they discover they ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61147715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63185240">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 12 14:52:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love, love, love, love...did I say love? I love Barbara Buncle. I either want to meet her and be friends with her or I want to be just like her when I grow up. I think the reason I like this book so much is because it it much like my favorite book since fifth grade, Harriet the Spy. I am so going ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63185240">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A birthday present from my esteemed aunt (the giver of many gems).  So far so great - and I just love reading Persephone Books.  It is a whole experience.<br/><br/>Thoroughly enjoyable, just a very pleasant read.]]></body>
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    <review id="41685225">
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to find, out of print.  It is so witty and funny.  I really LOVE this book!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a clever story and I enjoyed the predictable but entertaining tale.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just ordered from Persephone, thanks to Susann!]]></body>
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    <review id="55493054">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was such a fun book--I loved it!]]></body>
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