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I don't imagine giving this more than three stars because it is not edited to excude a loving atmosphere. I appreciate the nuggets of Canadian history and royal ties to Canadian history. Especially enlightening, having me wonder how many royal enthusiasts know about this, is the love of Queen Victoria's Father's life. He loved a woman he couldn't marry and they lived half their lives right in Halifax, Nova Scotia!

The news items are poorly chosen and tastelessly narrated. I don't know what Barbara Smith, whom I have enjoyed many times before, was thinking because she looked forward to this Canadian romance history project for a long time. My guess is she strove for humour and that got garbled into salaciousness. As I stated before, I am continuing this for the history portraits within. I wish this were properly about love.

I looked forward to this but don't rush to add it. It is poorly done. I am disappointed that Barbara Smith's obvious approach to the subject of love is gossipy. Her compilation of information is clunky; with negative, tacky, common knowledge news items. Anyone, a non-writer, could have done a fair job. No authenticity was attempted, like interviewing family. I will merely draw historical information from this.

I have been absorbing this book about tracking down huge, missing pieces of history. Upon compilation in 365 AD of the most staple religious book, to which centuries of our civilizations defer; most of Jesus's life and others were excluded. Of interest to spiritual people like me, tired of rigid religious types who criticize alternative faith and mindlessly throw quotations around. The contents are very soothing.

Ah, now I have read far enough along that I am becoming a fan. Good, because I have gathered a plethora of Elizabeth George's novels, including in hardcover! I hope people know that when I mean book, I mean the investment and space commitment of an actual BOOK. It will be a fun quest to find the next one I need. :)

The season for covering our plants against frost overnight, has us busy and watching the daily temperatures. If it is going to be warm a lot longer, our squashes and flowers will benefit from more time and it is worth protecting them from below 0 Celsius nights.

I do want to go to retire early and read more than one chapter. I stayed up until 4:00AM but have a long-distance book-shopping trip to enjoy today! Bye!

Wow, I knew I would enjoy any literature from the incomparable Maeve Binchy but this is excellent! Two short stories are so good, rich, and profound for their brevity that I am in disbelief at how she achieved them! To think, "Victoria Line" is only her second published book. I have "Central Line" too in a duology release and couldn't recall that it was the first. "Victoria Line" is put first, maybe for a reason.

I fell asleep before I read far, getting a late start. I will read more tonight.

I treasure the fabulous Maeve Binchy and sometimes wait a year or two, before reading the next of her oeuvres in my queue. I own everything she has written and savour them because each is an experience that is permanently memorable. I shall miss her when my collection eventually is finished. She is the first general fiction authoress that I adored.

After getting rid of a sigh: "Damn cozy mysteries, for often being boring fluff!", I am undaunted for 4 reasons. I love Rhys's Irish-New Yorker historical series, so I know this authoress can write. Not all cozy mysteries blow chunks. I seldom agree with reviewers. The loudest complaints called this a poor imitation of the Hamish Macbeth series... an MC Beaton series I loathe. Not being like Hamish is a relief!

This is very educational! I am not merely learning about Jesus's messages safely kept in India, under the name "Issa". A natural landscape and historical context is given with them, so we learn about glorious places geographically and culturally. We also are guided through spiritual concepts; heightened spirituality and consciousness that Jesus learned in the east, during ages 13 and 32 not covered in the gospel.

You would think I could stay awake long enough and finish a larger quantity of pages. It so happens the last "Harry Potter" film was airing on the satellite dish and my spouse & I decided to enjoy it together. It is a wet day and I have done the garden-picking I need to. Perhaps I will continue earlier than bedtime.

I finished Eric Wright's eighth novel and enjoyed 72 pages of Louise Penny's fifth, before falling asleep. I would read a lot today, if I didn't have gardening to attend to, in our bright, warm sun. My plants need me too and air and sun do me good. It is dark at 8:00 PM now, so I will return to this story soon enough.

I did that falling asleep thing again. This time, I pushed past the two pages I kept repeating, put it away, and got the lights off. I am sure I will finish Eric's novel today! I must say again, that I am enjoying it far better than other reviewers did. It is not boring for me at all, for the detective to hang out on a Toronto film set and meet a great old actor, who took a liking to his artistic son. I like it!