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Here is my list of books in 2021. From the first list, I have scratched books we have read and series I am well into like Louise Penny, Martha Grimes, Elizabeth George. Please propose your upcoming reading. I gamely joint-read books I own but enjoy buddy-reading with whomever you wish. :)

Series: Sue Grafton 1, Nevada Barr 1, J.K. Rowling 1 (yes, I am last to indulge), Frances Fyfied 1, "Half Light" novel in her name, 'Frances Hegarty'. David Handler 4, P.D. James 1, Carlos Luiz Zafón "The Angel's Game".

Various: "Pride And Prejudice", "The House Next Door" Anne Siddons, "The Land Of Stories" Chris Colfer, "Midnight In The Garden Of Good & Evil", "All Creatures Great And Small", "Anne Frank, Diary Of A Young Girl", "Wuthering Heights", "Behind The Scenes At The Museum", "A Dry Spell" Susie Moloney (Winnipeg!), "The Winter People" Jennifer McMahon. I'll save the same Phyllis A. Whitney title for later. "The Starless Sea", "The Dreaming" Barbara Wood, "The Wizard Of Oz".

"Artemis Fowl", "Treasure Island", "The 39 Steps", "Black Beauty", "The Time Machine", "The Mysterious Benedict Society", "The Maze Of Bones", "Lady Of Hay", "The Kitchen God's Wife", "Garden Spells", "Ready Player One".

Biographies: Margaret Laurence, Rita MacNeil, wildlife activist Biruté M.F. Galdikas "Reflections Of Eden", Anne Murray, Kirk Douglas "My Stroke Of Luck", John Candy, Melissa Gilbert, Goldie Hawn, Jeanne Cooper, Amy Poehler, Elton John "Me".

I have looked at the first of two boxsets my Godmother mailed me, soon after she, her Siamese cat, and my cousins moved to Prince Edward Island. Her handwriting at the front of the books reads "June 1986". It is odd that I didn't open them until last year, with friends Kerri in New Zealand and then Leanne nearby in Ontario.

I may have thought these would be complicated, scholarly classics because they were famous and well-reputed. I gobbled the fictional, American, Laura Ingalls ones at age 8. With saving them until I was ready a likely part of it; I knew they were beautiful sets to display that I would someday savour. They and my childhood cat, Thumbelina, accompanied me from childhood home to adult homes. After a 33-year delay, I love them and they are more wonderful than I imagined they would be! How uncanny! It is precisely in June 2020 that I started these!

It will be my pleasure to begin this third famous story, finishing my first childhood boxset with you tonight, Kerri and Leanne, and anyone who wishes to favour our journey with their company. I don't believe I would have enjoyed these stories any better at 13 than I do in my youthful, adventurous, eager, appreciative 40s. Your friend, Carolyn.

Well met, Leeanne! That doesn't limit our "Anne Of Avonlea" conversation. Forgive the slowness proceding with it. Another good meaty point occurred to me that I think we will dig into with ease. I probably have a few more thorough answers to all that you and Kerri shared last. I am just finishing Anne Perry's delightful 12th novel, "Belgrave Square" and would be happy to start this tonight.

The best way to do buddy-reading is to indeed write our on-the-spot thoughts actually as we are reading. If you ladies like our method to headline a chapter so we may say what we wish, without spoiling terrain for anyone not there; it worked well for me. When not withholding our reading impressions as they are ongoing, we avoid summaries that might as well be reviews. It is fun to guess at the pages that lie ahead, don't you agree? :)

I propose that if we find ourselves galloping at lightening speed, we try popping in with "along the way" notes at important intervals, at least when we have reached halfway; or mentally noting them to record later. What do you say?

My brother, with so much to catch-up with me in our rare letters, hasn't confirmed he still wants my copies for his Daughter, perhaps presuming nothing changed when I asked if it could wait. However, I believe I have spaced out the wait for myself long enough and am eager to see what the university months and years bring for Prince Edward Island's fun, moral, eloquent heroine!

One thing more: in alerting you that I will make a new book folder, it occurs to me to ensure you know that you are always entitled to create your own reading and personal folders and threads, about whatever you wish. All 25 members certainly may but I hope it goes without saying to our regular contributers. :) With gladness, Carolyn.

I have only seen a little of Christopher Plummer's impeccable body of work over my young years but every theatre or film fan knows him from somewhere. He is first, a Montréal raised theatre veteran from the 1950s in Stratford, Ontario; a world theatre festival renounded for launching the acting greats.

Being ill one night, gave his fellow Montréaler "Henry V" understudy a break in 1956. Ten years later, the iconic "Star Trek" TV show was headed by him: William Shatner. In 1991, Christopher joined the cast's 6th film, "The Undiscovered Country". Unsurprisingly, his role was memorable. Christopher possessed the core skills of projecting his voice without a microphone and gathering audiences in to listen raptly.

He ascended at home to the afterlife today, "the undiscovered country", at age 91. It is thankfully harder to be sad about a finished physical life, when people or animals have attained a ripe age. There is no despair about that. I am naturally, thinking of my dear Spirit with reluctance and difficulty, who was only 16 1/2 3 weeks ago. There are many loved-ones and great ones where he has gone, like my Mom and childhood cats. Humble Christopher himself is a great animal-lover, which instantly earns more of my respect.

A short note from me for now, working through the unexpected grief of our Spirit. 16 1/2 is young enough that he shouldn't be gone for perhaps 10 years and also so long, that we can't envision living without him. Someone so important ot us too. The support of you both means everything to me and helps enormously.

Leeanne, thank you for continuing our pleasant discourse with another fabulous addition of your thoughts and reactions. I am happy to read the third book when you are comfortably able to obtain it. I recall that Kerri owns the first trilogy at least but little seems to close in New Zealand.

It might have been me, who said she wondered if Anne was getting married in the last chapter but perhaps Kerri did as well. I am glad it is neither Anne nor Diana, although marriage in a close community won't detour friendship. However, we are starting to enjoy them as being young, with just enough independence to have their own say and I'll bet we would all like that to continue. I am most excited about the university days of the third novel.

I also have thought to ask Kerri, as a veritable island girl, if she thinks the lack of maritime impressions are only our perceptions, as land-locked ladies. Does it feel like an island to Kerri, who might look for things other than discussions of sailing craft? What else makes an island, an island?

I recall one more note: you referred to Anne's Nova Scotia origin and thought she should have walked the beach there too but it is larger and a lot of it is inland. I am a big fan of that province, Oak Island and so much more about it and it is the sole Maritime province I have visited. Inland, it reminds me of dear Manitoba.

Leeanne, I love the idea to highlight characters. I have expressed frustration that it is harder to discuss books we have all finished as general summaries, instead of engaging in a buddy read by sharing small reflexions as we go along. I am more in tune with your answers than you expected and mine might support you.

I feel similar to Matthew as to Miss Lavendar. I love them both and think they are bright spots and highlights to the novels they are in. However, there are sides to both of them that are cowardly or indicative of lazy ineptitude.

Matthew warmed up and impressed us by taking control of things, like Anne's adoption and clothing style. However (pardon Manitoba frankness), he fucked up being complacent about who his Dad knew, not taking his money out of an instable bank. They were never destitute but they used to be comfortable or well off. He annoyed me in the beginning by obviously going too much of his life without thoughts or opinions besides the routine. His ride from the trian station with Anne drove me nuts: "Gee, I never thought about that". What do you think about?! I loathe the over-opinionated. Kerri has heard things I won't repeat in public about politics and religious crazy relatives. But I loathe people with no colour to the thoughts and feelings they express.

I came to love Matthew's character as much as anyone. He expressed it lovingly and bloomed. However I don't miss him because he is a character. Not my Mom who died in real life, which I have a hard time believing. I accepted that he got written out of the series much earlier than I would have liked and am glad they remember him often.

I can't stand the neighbour's ex-wife. Ginger did not "have to" die for them to reconcile. It happend that way in a freak accident that had me annoyed at the authoress for contriving it. Show children an example of couples meeting halfway. I do love the man, for seeming grouchy but being loveable and wanting friends.... and for being a bird-lover way back in the 1900s!

I am a loveable, friendly person who has made international friends since I was little. I used to live in apartment buildings. I'll bet my neighbours with noisy dogs think I am a grouch. That is what you get for keeping a problem between us, instead of getting to know a great person who has been next to them all these years. It is the result of someone who has excused all the crap she will accept. The rare time they have spoken with me face to face, I am sure I have surprised them.

Miss Lavendar is a wonderful figure for staying as young as she likes and pursuing any passtime she wishes; truly needing to go no farther than home for a life of pleasure. However, a wistfulness reveals that she isn't content being single but she didn't do a damn thing about finding anyone new, or reconciling with her beau before he gave up. By the time you are 30, you learn to seek someone else, or sort out what you want. Is this where you lacked respect for her too, Leeanne?

Wistful "life didn't go my way" shit doesn't hold water on things you can do something about. Besides that, I love her. I wondered if there was a twist with her being Paul's biological Mother, because they are so alike as dreamers. However, it seems that there are many of us. Like Nancy Atherton series fans, I still cherish my main stuffed animals into adulthood.

Charlotta is fine but strikes me as an imitator, regardless of age. We should all have firm desires and hopes of our own; not wish to emulate anyone. I have about the same beliefs and interests as I did when I was tiny.

Yes, Matthew would love Dora but would love Davey too! He better than anyone, knew what it was like to be a boy who needed to spend energy moving and investigating. The personalities and lack of composure people have as adults is not what we were like as kids. Matthew might have run amuck too.

I wondered how many Monarch raising steps were life-saving, versus something Leeanne enjoys; just wishing to clarify. She said the danger was loss of milkweed habitat and ants threatening eggs. It sounded like hatching is as far as it needs to go indoors and metamorphosis is unhindered outside.

I am glad you saw baby lambs, Kerri! I seldom see them in Manitoba. I tend to be sad driving past baby cows, however precious they are because these are animals some people consider food. I haven't considered anyone food since 2006. You can't release a bunch animals, you have to educate.

The easiest, cost-free way of changing the mindset is to ask everyone we know to stop using the word "owner" about our own pets. That makes a huge difference. Kerri, please don't forget to transfer everything you said about "blue chicks" from the "Green Gables" thread or repeat it here.

It was great hearing about the white squirrels, Leeanne! "Exeter", is a place I only know in England. Driving across that country was frustrating because everything closes at 5:00 PM! You either skip attractions or lose a night staying over to see them. I insisted on learning to drive ourselves, with an automatic gear shift thank you very much. Why is the UK in the dark ages? That way little animals or unexpected places could be enjoyed as we saw them and a good thing we only booked lodgings when we knew where we were stopping.

I don't think Ontario has bigger squirrels than our large varieities. We both have a variety, except on black or white here. At our home the small brown sweethearts are standard. I am stunned that New Zealand has no squirrels. I thought they are a common animal that live everywhere across the world. I could open my door and show you one now. Our cats are trained to keep them off the birdfeeders, knowing they won't catch the squirrels. I exclaim: "There's a squirrel!" and any of our beauties will volunteer to charge out the door.

They only hibernate in the coldest of the cold, unlike chipmunks. This is a detail my review tore apart in the second or third Louise Penny novel, "The Cruellest Month". She gets summers right but her idea of real cold and frosty spring is surprisingly off, including when frogsong is loudest. Things that are true from Manitoba to Quebec and about certain temperatures, which cannot be brushed off as regional. Anyway, they are the only two novels that didn't get five stars from this fan.

Here is a summary of replies, in addition to what I already furnished above. I did hope to receive birthday wishes my mail, e-mail, or on my profile but was glad to finally have them here too. I will be working on Christmas cards and packages soon, although ouf family birthdays are ongoing until March. I have honed and learned since Mom started me on cards at age 8, how to time all this internationally.

I guess the prairies were complacent about being low traffic about most things, which did not pay off with the coronavirus. Since just before my birthday (which annoyed last minute card-buyers like my Dad, haha), Manitoba is closed to all but essentials. I am for not essential places closed but not closing departments inside stores that are open. If you are there, you might as well be able to buy what is available. However, I think this was a prevention tactic against "black Friday" shopping crowds, that was days away.

Thrift stores are allowed to reopen (book shopping!) and the Christmas aisles of stores, which is good because Ron wants to replace some of our outdoor Christmas lights.

I am going to put the replies about squirrels under the animal headings. It seems like jumping around but you will thank me later. I shudder to scroll through the "Anne Of Green Gables" thread, where all conversations were clumped. It is worth piecing conversations together, if there is a folder for them. I don't mean friendship-building, homey additions about family and general things.

We ask for continued prayers to retore Spirit's good health, safety, and longevity, He is going through another low eating period, which is frightening to a parent while it lasts and a relief when it is resolved.

It goes without saying that I can't look at any virtual tours or videos. However, there is somewhat faster internet on the horizon. I saw on one episode of "Schitt's Creek", I think the one in which Moira wants nude photos of herself on the internte for posterity, a comment about rural internet. Stevie said at the front desk: "Hold on a second, this is only a step up from dial-up".

Thank you, Leeanne! I believe I await some birthday mail still to come and am giddy like a child about that! Having your greetings a week afterwards, still in November, makes me happy and aren't belated to me. I love stretching the joy, fun, and pampering of me! :)

Yes, Spirit is well and so is Marigold, who revealed kidney issues this year despite her young age. Prayers for them all and we have gratitude that these prayers have been answered.

I look forward to answering all of you guys's wonderful "Anne Of Avonlea" comments soon. My brother has not answered my question that he did not buy my niece the first boxset anywhere else. I presume he is waiting for mine but until I know otherwise, I hope to read the third novel by the second week of December. You have treated us to a lot to say about volume two for now.

I'll elaborate personal bits at e-mail. Thankfully Spirit is better to our relief. Thank you for this quick note and naturally I am happy receive additional birthday wishes. I will tell you by e-mail when my birthday mail arrives. I think there is some to anticipate from a few people, thus I am still celebrating all along November! Mine must be in New Zealand for you by now but please don't spoil the answer here. I have been eager to have your reaction to those particularly poignant contents in e-mail too! :)

This could be under celebrities as well as Canadians. I saw on the news that a hero from the Winnipeg Jets, my home city NHL hocky team, died of stomach cancer in August. Dale Hawerchuck was a star for the Jets when I was a kid and his name is very familiar to me.

I don't know hockey players now but back when I knew a few and even had a poster, a few hockey cards, and autographs; Dale's name was common in households, even of non-sports fanatics like myself. That is how big his name is across the National Hockey League. I am sorry to hear he has ascended to Heaven, only a year younger than my spouse. His son, Eric, gave a wonderful talk on a clip the news has featured this evening.

My newly minted angel Mom will be thrilled to welcome Dale and show him around the fluffy white cloudy place of love and peace. Here is to you, Dale, in my best super loud Winnipeg cheering voice that newscasters talk about all around North American. You can hardly conduct interviews in a wild Winnipeg arena. "Go, Jets, go! Go, #10, go"!!!!!!!!!! There are 10 exclamation points in my cheer.

Yes, it makes sense, Kerri. Good, "Jeopardy" is a popular culture reference around the world since 1984.

This reminds me of a daring "Wheel Of Fortune" eference from the "Family Guy" cartoon. I think they used to air after each other but don't know if the same company filmed them. The puzzle was "Go tuck yourself in". Go figure with Seth McFarlane, you can imagine what the blank "T" looked like. I am not a fan but I enjoy the show from time to time if it isn't too spiritually unhealthy or gross.

It is a baffling irony that my middle brother introduced me to it before he was too politically right-minded. One of my favourite bands is A-ha from Norway. "Take On Me" is noted in history as the most famous video in the world, even today. In one scene where Chris Griffin takes a disembodied hand and disappears in a grocery store, you recognize the video and laugh, when he can't explain where he went. Who could!?

It feels good to have everyone's understanding: thank you! When I said my situation does not match classic misophonia descriptions, I did not imply it is not as bad. Being affected by written words or memories is bad! I wish I only hated chewing sounds or the word "moist", less frequent to encounter and only auditory or visual. Personalized things from daily home are rough. Just want to correct that.

I am loving the conversation about "Anne Of Avonlea" and if Leeanne adds impressions of "Anne Of Green Gables". I have to thank you, Leeanne for building your own insights! I mentioned before, not wanting to propose topics and conversation ceasing after everyone answers. I worried about having to coax everyone to jump in with more ideas or thoughts of their own and Leeanne surprised us with this gift. Kerri's additions are fantastic too: this is great. I hope I have fast internet soon to see New Zealand tours.

I will join in when I have time. We are figuring out what is ailing Spirit and picked-up medicines, which he started yesterday. I am very hopeful and these sound reasonable. In town, Ron bought my birthday gifts and I did family birthday and Christmas shopping. I seldom go to city or town and it was nice to be able to have a shopping expedition. I bought a few groceries and items for the house that are different from what Ron chooses, who normally shops on this way home from the city. I am 47 for 3 more days!

You didn't remind me of her character name but provided her name to look it up at least. ;) I hope you know she is a guest star unlikely to reappear until planet Trill is visited again. But you will enjoy this early episode of the highly anticipated and paying off season 3. You can't appreciate later Star Trek until you have seen the original series films and the "Next Generation" films, if not the TV series but it is wonderful.

If you are keen on proper order or find yourself hooked, we learn about Trills and many other races in the third series, "Deep Space 9". Obviously don't think of watching the other new show, "Picard", unless you invest in the whole "Next Generation" TV series, about his generation piloting the Enterprise. Two crew members come from Jean-Luc Picard's Enterprise to work at Deep Space 9.

Have you heard of Alex Trebek and "Jeopardy" all the way over there? I am glad and you are welcome. Justin's mistakes and unpopular decisions have come and gone but he always has grace and respect towards individuals.

Fare well to Sudbury, Ontario born Alex Trebek, who was also dear to Americans and everyone else who knew the super intelligent game trivia, "Jeopardy". I am sad he didn't get over cancer. I did not know he was 80 and am heartened that he reached this fine, advanced decade. He was kind and led a wonderful life. Our Prime Minister gave official website condolences here. https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2...

An unexpected "Schitt's Creek" actress was on "Star Trek Discovery" last night! These are becoming more and more emotional and spirit-lifting and Ron & I just love them. This time we were on the planet Trill (which you will acquaint in "Deep Space 9"): freckled people who compete for the honour of joining with a Simbiant inside them. This is a parasitic but loving connection with the memories of all the bodies that carried this ancient creature over the centuries.

I was sure I recognized the spiritual leader of the Trill and took a few minutes to get it. Lo and behold, it was the black mechanic and council member from "Schitt's Creek"! Previously, it was the mayor we had seen in numerous other roles. I used to be poor at recognizing actors from other roles when I was young because I only used to be invested in what they were playing in the moment. Now I am good at matching faces and voices.

Thank you both for forgiving the deletions I feel bad about. The point of a group and notes from friends is to see their words, rather than yours. I think I am a compulsive editor and fix typos right after posting. Sometimes a duplicate posts pops up and I pressed the top "delete button" twice, wondering why the earlier post wouldn't go away. I did not know it resulted in deleting your two posts. If I were removing the newest edit, I would have used the bottom "delete button".

Thank goodness you remembered what you said and you make better points than ever! I remembered what you each wrote but of course it needs to come from you. Your retyped opinion here makes your topics even more compelling to converse about! I am glad we agree about animal death being out of place by someone depicted as an animal lover and in kids' books. I hoped to avoid a "what do you expect on a farm" circle.

Just FYI, I hope everyone read that I do not match "misophonia" exactly but must have something like it. It was great to have a cause for something that has been hard since my 20s. I wish sounds I disliked only freaked me out when I heard them but as I said, the memory of past times and seeing printed words I dislike are awful triggers. The typical stuff like breating or eating noises don't bother me. I think I honed in on the definition I saw that aspects of misophonia can be highly personalized. And it sucks that new ones can develop with excessive repetition that seems pointless to me and not have a reasonable need. That is how it started for me.

For example, if my spouse only sneezed quietly or once, it would not have become a recent trigger. But he always does it loudly and a million times non-stop. Now I have to run away if he starts.

I am going to have to give your Mom's idea thought. Does it make sense that if I wrote about Manitoba, I am not the best person to convey it vividly? I don't think so. I think I would point out the joys of living here, how our animals and landscape look, weather, what we do and how we dress in different seasons. I think Maud doesn't sound like an island because she is discussing an inland village, or at least she is focusing on the trees and fields. These characters don't do sailing, have the lifestyle, or language of sailors. Maybe that is it and not mentioning water enough. Only those picturesque lakes near her home. But if you think about it, who lives on an island and only writes of interior lakes?

What disappointed me about the overdone chapter about the guest who couldn't make it and pet hens assissinated; was to make Davy fall into the pies. The narration stated that he had been good. Couldn't they have left him good for this chapter? But even if the pies were wrecked for some other reason (don't get me started on Aunt Josephine's plate), it would have been too contrived.

I have never looked-up Prince Edward Island's red soil and will. They mentioned it a few times in the book. I love how different our provinces can be. You might not know, Leeanne, that it was freaky to see in Ontario and other places, our first black squirrels! Back then, who knew they came in black? Ours are brown and occasionally grey. Sublte changes are fun to compare when we travel, aren't they? Gosh, the things we would see all over New Zealand!

When I was in my early 20s, I visited friends in St. Lucia and noticed a whole new world as soon as I stepped off the plane. It was night but the insect sounds were more numerous and what I suprise, when I beheld my first tropical morning! I don't know about the two of you but I notice simple things: like how Canada is more associated with England than the US, so our fast food restaurants carry packaged vinegar for French fries but they do not.

I discussed bugaboos amply. I will give you breathing room and will add a future post about more things I loved. There was after all, a lot to love! Please don't hesitate to add more that you want to share as well. My review shares my favourite quote.

Yikes, I was editing my comment and your two disappeared! I am sorry about that! I remember what you said but it is better coming from you. I mistook the delete button above my duplicate comment that showed up, instead of clicking "delete" below my comment where I should have. I feel bad that there is no option I know of to get them back, unless you don't mind summarizing them.

Friends know I love to dispense with unpleasant subjects and work up to the most enjoyable ones thereafter. I'll jump in by saying, as I did in the review I have finished, that scooting past a word one dislikes is one thing; having Maud rehash it about forty times in that awful chapter was too much, with no break alternating with "lunch", "repast", "meal", "food", "company", or "visitors".... For the average person who dislikes a word or who tires of repetition, that was annoying as it was.

There is a "neurological glitch", not categorized as an ailment or mental issue, called "misophonia". It approaches but does not match something I have experienced for years. You know how certain sounds are so unpleasant, they hurt the ears, or aggravate you after some duration? A misophonia type trigger is worse and for whatever I have, a written word on a page representing it, or a memory of someone using it, are enough to produce the same pain.

You can ask a class or school to ban nuts. I don't feel able to ask people not to use or write "have got" contractions around me, as much as they pain me! It is on TV all the time: "got" erroneously mimicking what should only be the verb "have". I stopped watching "Dr. Oz" and others with that habit. The D-word in place of "lunch" is my other one. You imagine why I couldn't bear it 40 times in a chapter.

There is no cure. If I yell, it releases the angry distress but I can't do that in public. You should have seem me the time I was in a mall and a guy walked right by me, whistling not with lips but teeth; the worst audible trigger even among textbook sufferers! I freaked out and scared him so much, he yelled too. Haha, at least it stopped. I cannot bear it in writing either which is why I separated the sentence with "lips" first.

What's worse as Leeane said, was not just killing but volunteering pets. I never like any killing and there was more later, including the dear Ginger. But like Leeanne, I know that I thought it was stupid that she passed away from a poorly staged accident, for a couple to reconcile. Real reconciliation would be accepting the husband's family bird, from his brother. I know people from farms and no one would do such a thing. You exempt certain animals or defer the possibility as much as possible. My Mom, a non country girl forever because of this, had a pet cow one year. She was stuck on a farm while her Dad worked out-of-town. You would think they would avoid that cow during her temporary stay. If there is one thing that cheers me up about her being in Heaven, it is that she got to reunite with that dear cow.

The same chapter had Davy wrecking pies, annoying because this was a day the boy was pretty good. Maud wanted a chapter in which nothing went right but it was overdone. I knew something was going to ruin that borrowed plate but the stupidity of how it was arranged didn't gel. She was showing it to her pastor and wife friends on the stairs. She went to check Davy's pie destruction. Do you really think that no matter how busy she was, she would forget that plate or not bring it with her? Even if you let Maud pass on that, there is no way her friends would leave it on the staircase. Maud wanted pies and plate wrecked and didn't do much to make the method believable. My review says that without this chapter, I would have given the book five stars.

Later, the bit about Anne grabbing something instead of freckle cream was a repeat of last year's book and her conclusion was odd. Instead of making sure people in that house check bottles and creams thoroughly; she throws it out, claiming vanity.

Those are the beefs. I'll let those be in case there are any replies or questions. I loved the rest of the book tremendously and will turn to that afterwards. Leeanne, I am happy you saw your birthday greetings at your profile. Without a reply, I didn't know because apparently some people use an app, which doesn't show personal profile comments. It is always a PC and webpage for me.

I had heard that Prince Edward Island had red soil but hadn't thought about it. The book reminded me of it a couple of times. They spoke of the ocean a few times, such as the story of Paul's rock people but not in a way that evoked that the setting was an island. I wonder why the atmosphere didn't translate. Maybe because no one has boating jobs and they are always talking about trees and fields.