Excellent books! Thanks for voting.

Thank you Laurie. I am surprised that there are no Jean Plaidy on the list yet.

I did check Plaidy's books and was a little surprised about that too. I'll check and see if she wrote any under Victoria Holt.

You are right I think she did but I have most of her Jean Plaidy ones and there are a lot! Maybe not many people have added books yet and the number will increase. It is fun to see the lists grow!

Oh yes, that's what I enjoy about lists too. Such a good way to find good books I might never have heard about too - especially older books. I do appreciate when people add books to my lists.

I hope your English summer weather is pleasant.

Yes we have dad a nice spell of weather over the lase two weeks, no rain! But I doubt it will last for long there is a saying here 'three days of sun and then a thunder storm'. The temperature has been up to 25 degrees of the storm will follow soon. What is the weather like where you are?

Lucky you Jo :D

Right now the weather here is in the high 90's with lots of humidity from the recent thunderstorms we had. It's hard to keep the house cool when it's this hot.

I see that thunderstorms are predicted next week and I can't wait for them to get here!

Our summer weather is much hotter than it was back when I was growing up. It wasn't until the 1980's that the weather became so much hotter than it once was.

I hope your humidity isn't too bad where you live. I'm acclimatized to the heat but it's the humidity that's a real killer. It feels like I'm walking through molasses when I go outside.

Feel so sorry for my outdoor cats, they are positively paralyzed and hiding in the shade. So hot they've lost their appetite too. Oh well, a good way to save money on cat food I guess :D

Wow! That is hot, we start to complain when it hits the high seventies here. We don't very often suffer with humidity just a bit before a storm but nothing like you get. My daughter is going to Singapore at the end of the month and she tells me you can cut the atmosphere with a knife there, last time she went it was so bad. I think England is such a lucky country really we have a very temperate climate and we still talk about nothing but the weather, too hot, too cold, too wet, not enough rain, in fact in comparison to most of the world our weather is almost perfect most of the time!

English weather does sound heavenly. I love rain so that wouldn't bother me either.

I don't know how people in Singapore can stand the humidity. Makes me wonder how they managed before the invention of air conditioners.

I describe the humidity here as like walking through molasses. It's hard to describe though, it's something you'd have to experience to understand.

I just went out to feed the birds and was bending over to pet my cats as they followed me to the feeder. I wasn't outside very long but now I feel so weak and sick and my head is swimming.
I had a lot of things to do today but I'll have to put it off till tomorrow now.

I'm always delighted when it rains here. The sky is clouding up so maybe we'll get a little soon.

Hope your daughter enjoys Singapore in the summertime. Makes me think of something I saw for sale in a catalog recently. It's a hand held little a/c and fan to hold to your face when you go outside lol.
Maybe I should order one of them.

Oh I think you should Laurie! I could never manage in such heat, I was thinking about it after I wrote to you yesterday. I had been digging in the front garden for about 3 hours on Sunday, I would never dig at all if I lived where you do. Then there are every day jobs like ironing, scrubbing floors, changing beds, mowing lawns, it must be unbearable. x