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This is a really creative, engaging story! It may be that nothing major takes place but it always feels action-packed! Additionally, I am getting a lot out of absorbing a novel in French, something I have not done for decades probably. Not too many, I am not old. :) It may be I was a child in school the last time I took in a complete novel in French, perhaps when Mom put away these few "romans" (novels) for me.

I like it already! I don't know if any more than the cover will be familiar because it is from long ago in my childhood and is not in my first language. I don't think I retained anything in French as profoundly or enduringly as in English. However this is a highly creative mystery atmosphere and a good brush-up of the language.

I have finished the first half, Michael J. Roads' book called "Talking With Nature". Because this contains his second too and I like breaks between authors and genres, I will leave this title here until I take up "Journey Into Nature". To accurately count my 2017 reading, I will review a single copy of "Talking With Nature'. Finishing the sequel, "Journey Into Nature", will close this copy of mine later this year.

I have finished the first half, Michael J. Roads' book called "Talking With Nature". Because this contains his second too and I like breaks between authors and genres, I will leave this title here until I take up "Journey Into Nature". To accurately count my 2017 reading, I will review a single copy of "Talking With Nature'. Finishing the sequel, "Journey Into Nature", will close this copy of mine later this year.

The copy I have is an omnibus. Michael J. Roads' two novels about discoverning this subject are printed in the same tome. Whenever I have a combined printing of titles that comprise their own books, I like my reading quota to count all those separate, individual books. Thus when I'm finished the first half, I will use this version to record it. When I eventually tackle the second, I will close out my whole copy.

I love the knowledge this book bestows and a refersher of awareness I have faith in, even if I don't usually hear conversation. I perceive a tree's love and sentience, like the Cottonwood of my childhood home. Books like these encourage me to concentrate on removing the fog barrier and of course, not caring what others think. Michael needs to curb the verbose writing style. This is the time to be straightforward.

I am reading slowly not for lack of absorbing the wonderful confirmation that my trees, plants, and the consciousness of my landscape hears me. It is partly due to catching up book review-writing and my blog, then falling asleep by the time I retire to bed. The happiest reason is that Manitoba is in its blessed garden season! 3/4 of our gardens are sown and all our flower baskets! Herb garden and flowerbeds next!

Animals certainly are sentient, answering us in both directions, if only we learn to pick up the telepathy. However I have always loved and spoken to trees and plants, in hopes they know me and my love and hear me, even if I didn't hear them. Well, I tried speaking with a tree, encouraged by an animal communicator and it worked. I have that tree's replies on paper. I love a book focused on speaking with plants.

People who dissect symbolism are not impressive. I love people who let stories sweep them away. I notice there is no loyalty in Marian's circle. Peter might be faithful but I dislike him. There is no respect between them. Duncan is depressed, unfeeling to everyone. He and Marian view relatives distantly. Ainsley and the landlady are selfish. Clara ia a friend but alien as a parent. Her toddler is disgusting!

Am I enjoying this? It is a case in which I don't know yet and want to see where it leads. I did not fall in love with it but am open to liking it. We do place our sympathy with Marian, wrinkle our nose at Ainsley, the roomate who scoops extra funds for alcohol Marian scarcely drinks and who sends clothes to a laundromat she is too lazy to visit. We hate Peter. No fiancé of mine would tell an old hunting story.

I don't know Margaret Atwood's books. I gathered many for years and am glad to try them, as a Canadian. However "The Edible Woman" is compared to a Chinese book called "The Vegetarian". I am concerned they cast cruelty-free eaters as a mental illness but I hope to find this novel has nothing to do with calling us crazy. Vegetarians would not tolerate a hunter. Marian's aversions are very absurd, arbitrary items.

I am coasting through this 1929 novel #7 at a good clip! Did you know the first ghostwriter is Canadian, Leslie McFarlane? Are you additionally aware these stories were revised in the 1960s in response to complaint letters about political incorrectness? They are what my generation knows. A few of my Hardy Boys copies are the old stories and I'm surprised I like them better! There is a flow the cropped ones lack.

A lovely memory written by a Grandfatherly person for his Grandchildren, about when he was ages 11 & 12 in Wisconsin and raised a baby raccoon. It matters so much that he had an animal-loving, kind Dad and sisters. One was away studying, the other married. They adored Sterling and helped raise him, after their Mom died at 47 in 1914. Their brother survived world war I in France. We meet the North family in 1918.

A lovely Canadian animal book with gorgeous illustrations. I only hope the artist shows Gem's face more than mere silhouettes of her. A happy story of educational discovery and friendship. Christiane D'Aoust does not seem to have more since 2010 but should. She has the kind of animal affection and caring intention stories need. It is even more special that she puts her own dear cat and family environs into them.

This is a very uplifting, pleasant story that permeates with warmth and positive feelings all through. A boost of this kind of decent energy is what people need much more of, even though I enjoy thrillers occasionally. It is a rare gift to have an adventure and learning experience in which nothing terrible or negative arises. You smile with a warmed heart. It is remarkably educational too and I know animals well!

This is a very uplifting, pleasant story that permeates with warmth and positive feelings all through. A boost of this kind of decent energy is what people need much more of, even though I enjoy thrillers occasionally. It is a rare gift to have an adventure and learning experience in which nothing terrible or negative arises. You smile with a warmed heart. It is remarkably educational too and I know animals well!

This is a pleasure! A translation of Christiane D'Aoust's adventures featuring her, her husband Steve, and their cat Gem-Bem in their rural home of Québec. Our home with our cat children is the woods too! It was not easy to determine if this was a dual release. The first page yields a French-phrased address, which needed no switching. There is no need to invent strife. I love entirely happy, friendship reading!

I have abandoned no awful book but nearly did! I could praise the intricacy and originality of this plot. This duo obviously created a long-standing mystery magazine in their fictional name. I could certainly cut cringy things about the times a break. 1929 isn't the problem, except killing a rabbit! A test for one case! The writing sucks most of all. A "gentle" blowtorch in a throat? I loathe their writing!!!

I am halfway through. Police handling, including of women, is horrendous. Taking into consideration 1929, I am certain New York / American police officers of that time had a code of conduct too. I doubt they were allowed to be physically rough with anyone they were merely interrogating, even if antsy about safety with potential perps. Certainly not people merely hesitating to answer quesitons, nor their houseman!

We have finally left the location of the first scene! Gosh, was that boring. Unfortunately I have fallen asleep quickly, been busy, or only gone through a few pages per night. I will make a big dent tonight and finish as fast as I can. I make a quota for myself of 150 books per year. I must hit 75 books by the end of June for it to be feasible. After this novel, I can catch-up, by solely choosing genres I love!

The principal characters, at 82 pages, still have not left the theatre from which a story was supposed to be spurned! They are still talking about the mystery instead of going to their homes or out into New York, to give us a novel! This is shockingly boring. The writers seemed to think we would be impressed with police roughness and a barrage of useless descriptions! I don't care if Robert Queen wiped his mouth!

Even knowing Ellery Queens would be the most typical of the typical American "crime-based mystery", I hoped there would be some magical genius that would draw me in. Maybe I will love it. Maybe other novels are better and less indulgent writing-wise. My goodness, we hear enough about hands in pockets and police barking orders. At 62 pages we have not even left the theatre! I am not excited to reprise this novel.

I don't know how much I will like this novel or duo. I see it is as I expected in one way. as textbook as it can get, in the tone of detective fiction. This is the form of "mystery" I like least of all. Not truly MYSTERIOUS. A businesslike police case. However as a lover of mysteries, even if this is the least creative type for me, I want to sample pioneers of this branch. I am sure to appreciate some aspects.

What do you know: I have made it well past the half of this novel. The bare details and structures feel like a carbon copy with "The Black Dudley Murders" by Margery Allingham!