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[Beth]

Okay, I think I'll search out Nine Coaches Waiting & This Rough Magic next - they seem to be "favorites" quite often out of my unscientific poll ;)

[Hannah]

Hi Beth! You're in for a treat with Dame Stewart's books. My personal favorite of her romantic suspense novels is Wildfire at Midnight, but my all-time favorite MS book is her "cottage" book Thornyhold, which I see you've got.

Enjoy!

[Diane Lynn]

Welcome Beth. I second all of Tadiana's picks and throw in Wildfire at Midnight as well. You are in for lots of fun reading. :)

[Dorcas]

I love Wildfire by Midnight. its one of my all time favorite gothics PERIOD!

[Beth]

Ooo, thanks ladies! I'll add Wildfire at Midnight to the "seek-first" list ;) I probably won't be able to find all three at the same time, so that works!

[Judith]

Beth, Amazon has them all, and used they are very cheap. Also try Abe books. Good luck.

[Diane Lynn]

Beth wrote: "Ooo, thanks ladies! I'll add Wildfire at Midnight to the "seek-first" list ;) I probably won't be able to find all three at the same time, so that works!"

Your local library just might have all of her books, if you are lucky!

[Tweety]

Hello Beth!

I can't wait to see what you think of some of my favorites, particularly Wildfire At Midnight, Madam Will You Talk and This Rough Magic as well as Nine Coaches Waiting. :D

[Beth]

Silly me for not thinking to check the library database - they have nearly all of her books! :)

I think I will try to track down used copies, however, because if my mom hasn't read these yet, I want to share them with her. I often pass books along to her because she doesn't get new ones as often as me.

[Beth]

Tweety wrote: "Hello Beth!

I can't wait to see what you think of some of my favorites, particularly Wildfire At Midnight, Madam Will You Talk and This Rough Magic as well as Nine Coaches Waiting. :D"

I had checked out a few of your reviews yesterday & added them straight-away!

[Jaima]

Hi, I'm new to the group. Won't be able to join in for the Rose Cottage read, but I look forward to talking about Ms. Stewart's books and hopefully reading some others together. I've read four so far, and the one I liked best was Nine Coaches Waiting. I've added wildfire by moonlight and This Rough Magic to my to read list. Thanks for the recommendations!

[[deleted user]]

Hi Jaima! Glad to have you in the group. Watch the buddy-reads thread for future reads:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽, Moderator]

Many of you may already know of Jaima from the posts on the Count of Monte Cristo buddy read that she's been doing with Hana and me. I've been bugging her to join this group so I'm delighted that she's here. :)

[Diane Lynn]

Welcome, Jaima! This is a fun group, glad to have you join in. :)

[Jaima]

Thanks for the warm welcome :)

[Tweety]

Beth wrote: "Tweety wrote: "Hello Beth!

I can't wait to see what you think of some of my favorites, particularly Wildfire At Midnight, Madam Will You Talk and This Rough Magic as well as Nine Coaches Waiting...."

I saw that, I hope you like the books! ;)

[Misfit, Moderator]

Welcome Jaima.

[Fiona]

Hi, I,m Fiona, I've been reading Mary Stewart since my teens. My favourites are the Merlin series (including "The Wicked Day", which not many people seem to like) and "Wildfire at Midnight". I'm currently reading "My Brother Michael", then when I've read "This rough Magic" I will have read all Mary Stewart's books. I tend to read them as a palate cleanser between heavier books, as I find them very light, but I like the way she evokes place. Every time I go to Skye I think of Gianetta Drury!

[Hana]

Hi Fiona! Welcome! I'm a fan of Mary Stewart's Arthurian/Merlin series as well and I just started re-reading them. I loved The Crystal Cave and I'm looking forward to re-reading the rest of the series sometime this year.

Enjoy This Rough Magic; it's one of my favorites!

I agree 100% about her ability to evoke a particular place--wonderful.

You've been to Skye? Wow! Lucky you :)

[Judith]

Welcome Beth, Jaima, Fiona, and Hana too, since I've not said hello to you. This is a fun group...with super nice people in it. I love TRM, mainly because I love the Gales, father and son.

Wow, Skye is a place I'd love to visit! lucky you, Fiona.

[Misfit, Moderator]

Hi Fiona, welcome.

[Tweety]

Hello Fiona, and welcome!

[Diane Lynn]

Hi Fiona, welcome to the group. :)

[Abbie]

Hello. I just joined the group. I'm 21 years old and have been a fan of Mary Stewart ever since I read The Moonspinners when I was fourteen. I read it after seeing the Disney adaptation of the book with Haley Mills. Since then, I've been an avid fan of Lady Stewart's and I've devoured as many of her books as I could get my hands on. My favorites are The Moonspinners (of course), Wildfire at Midnight, and This Rough Magic, each of which I've read twice. Currently, I'm reading Nine Coaches Waiting and am almost finished with it. It's so good! I may have to add it to my favorites list!

[Jaima]

Hi Abbi!
We share favorites, except for Moonspinners which I've never read. I'll definitely have to now!

[Misfit, Moderator]

Hi Abbie, welcome aboard. Nine Coaches Waiting is awesome. Love the mountain mists.

[Diane Lynn]

Welcome to the group, Abbie. :)

[Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽, Moderator]

Welcome, Abbie! Moonspinners was my first Mary Stewart book too, when I was about 15. I don't think I fully appreciated it then. :) Nine Coaches Waiting is my favorite.

[Tweety]

Hello Abby! Wildfire at Midnight is my favorite and I love This Rough Magic too. :)

[Judith]

Welcome Abby. this a great group! So much fun to share MS's books.

[Judith]

forgot to say my favorite of her books is This Rough Magic.

[Katy]

How have I not ever discovered this group before? I love Mary Stewart.

Kathy here, from Idaho. Love to read many different genres -- enjoy also sewing/quilting, riding my bike, and being outside.

I discovered Mary Stewart years ago with her Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy

[Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽, Moderator]

Kathy! Good to see you here.

[Diane Lynn]

Welcome, Kathy!

[Misfit, Moderator]

Hi Kathy, welcome.

[Tweety]

Welcome Kathy. :)

[Judith]

Hi Kathy, glad you could join us.

[Hannah]

Hi Abbie and Kathy! Glad you found us :)

[[deleted user]]

Welcome to the group, Abbie & Kathy! Nine Coaches Waiting is one of my favorites. The group read the first of the Merlin trilogy for a group read. I plan to read the rest of the series one of these days.

[Dorcas]

Hi Abby! Hi Kathy! Welcome to the group. I haven't read all that many MS yet (about 4, I guess) . So far my favorite has been Wildfire at Midnight. But I'm anxious to read NCW, and MWYT.

[Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽, Moderator]

I'd like to do a September mini-group read of a Mary Stewart book. I just posted some suggestions on our More Buddy Reads? thread.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Abby and Kathy, this group has already done group reads of all of Mary's romantic suspense novels, but there are enough newer members of this group who didn't join all of these group reads, plus those who want to re-read her books, that we've started doing some of these books again for those who are interested.

[Karlyne]

Kathy wrote: "How have I not ever discovered this group before? I love Mary Stewart.

Kathy here, from Idaho. Love to read many different genres -- enjoy also sewing/quilting, riding my bike, and being outside...."

Hi, Kathy from Idaho- I'm Karlyne from Idaho, and it's good to see you here!

[Judith]

Hi Kathy, welcome to this fun group.

[Katy]

Karlyne wrote: "Kathy wrote: "How have I not ever discovered this group before? I love Mary Stewart.

Kathy here, from Idaho. Love to read many different genres -- enjoy also sewing/quilting, riding my bike, and ..."

Cool -- Middleton is home for me.

[Jaima]

Welcome Kathy!

[Karlyne]

Kathy wrote: "Karlyne wrote: "Kathy wrote: "How have I not ever discovered this group before? I love Mary Stewart.

Kathy here, from Idaho. Love to read many different genres -- enjoy also sewing/quilting, ridi..."

I'm actually out in Homedale! But we're building a place in Council to eventually retire in. Why, we're practically neighbors!

[Katy]

Cool
We have a farm in Homedale

[Karlyne]

Kathy wrote: "Cool
We have a farm in Homedale"

Alfalfa? Corn? Sugar beets? Cows? (oh, we smell those dairy cows!) Pigs? (ditto)

[Katy]

So true. Happy Summer!

[Karlyne]

Yep, and the rain has been lovely for us plain gardeners. Hope it's been good for the farm!