Top Ten Terrific Tales {no. 5}

via rilla of ingleside. l.m. montgomery. possibly the best of montgomery’s books. bittersweet. powerful.  the blue castle. l.m. montgomery. sweet romance of an overlooked young woman.  emma. jane austen. the meddling rich girl who finds love where she doesn’t expect it.  the hiding place. corrie ten boom. one of the loveliest books, with the saddestContinue reading “Top Ten Terrific Tales {no. 5}”

Top Ten Terrific Tales {no. 4}

  Anne of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery later work. too many ellipses. cute story. has to be read. Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud Montgomery funny. romantic. sad. number seven in her series. Mansfield Park Jane Austen one of her best-plotted. one of the most romantic. one of the most horrible endings. Northanger Abbey Jane Austen simplestContinue reading “Top Ten Terrific Tales {no. 4}”

Top Ten Terrific Tales {no. 3}

sigh I agree….. Anne’s House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The fifth in the Anne series.  Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. You know what’s awful? I hardly even remember reading this book. I recall reading the other Austen works pretty well, but not this one so much. I finished it in early SeptemberContinue reading “Top Ten Terrific Tales {no. 3}”

Top Ten Terrific Tales {no. 2}

Sorry, I know it’s awful . . . I couldn’t resist 🙂 Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery. I don’t like this one as much as her other Anne novels, mainly because as time passed her writing style deteriorated–at least for me. She used too many ellipses and wasn’t as funny. But I stillContinue reading “Top Ten Terrific Tales {no. 2}”

Top Ten Terrific Tales {no. 1}

Introducing {another} new series. Forgive me if all the new series around here are bothering you. I have to have something to do in between book reviews, and I’m still struggling to tread water in The Pickwick Papers. Seriously, you get five-sevenths through a book and all the sudden you want to quit. Really, Mr.Continue reading “Top Ten Terrific Tales {no. 1}”