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I agree some stories aren't pleasant or emotion-inspiring. I will read along and see if I differ from readers who graded this low. I enjoyed originality and humour in a few of this book's first tales.

This is fun and unexpectedly creative. They aren't your usual spooky stories but originality is my very favourite trait of all! This is a wonderful gem from 1960 and how special: my copy is from 1960 itself, not a later printing. :-)

A lot of this is familiar territory because it is a 2005 write-up. Unless one was born close to world wars, or in known threatening weather regions, it is rare for we 40 year-olds to recall major dangerous history near our home citiies. Thankfully our neighbourhoods were never near floods, fires, or wind storms. But I recall over half of this book's events in my province and in the news. This is of my generation.

Manitobans often feel our province is not covered enough, even in Canadian compilations. It it makes the book we are skimmed, as if there were hardly anything of note about us, which is balderdash, or else we are lumped with the three prairie provinces. We are proud to have good coverage but not like this. We certainly populate this extreme weather book but it isn't happy history, except of hardiness and survival.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE! Sincerely, Carolyn!

Surprisingly inventive and differing so much from any other similar adventure styles, that you don't anticipate the turns and the reactions. It is short on details, introduction, and build-up because it leaps into the surreal situation. However there is plenty of emotion and connectivity between two sets of families, 140 years apart in history.

I have enjoyed Janet and Richard Bock's personal tour and interview experience all around India. Now they are elucidating the crux of their findings: the texts by "Saint Issa". They seem to make very clear that Issa was the transposition of Jesus's name in India. His life history measures up, adds the 18 missing years, and inspiring twists the usual book did not discuss. This book becomes increasingly enjoyable!

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.