Member: FancyDay

Many thanks for sending 'A Fine of Two Hundred Francs' to me! It arrived this morning and I am delighted with it.
Best Wishes
Valerie

posted by englishrose60 at 5:12 am (EST) on Apr 27, 2009

Dear Diana,
My lovely book arrived today! Thank you! Thank you!!! For some reason I thought that you said you wouldn't be able to post it until yesterday or today, so I was really suprised and most pleasantly so. I am enjoying my current Virago, The Matriarch, so I'm going to be disciplined and finish it before I begin Frost and move on to Lost Traveler. Thank you for making that possible!
I continue to look for something that I have that you might like. I don't know. You don't have any Patrick White catalogued, and I have a spare copy of The Living and the Dead, but I haven't read it. I have respected and enjoyed the 3 or 4 of his novels that I have read Or Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays? Oh well....maybe some day!
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 2:52 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2009

Diana -- Lantana Lane arrived in my mailbox today -- thanks so much -- I'm looking forward to delving into into it -- the lantanas bordering our driveway are just starting to reflower. -- Jane

posted by janeajones at 8:39 pm (EST) on Apr 20, 2009

Diana,
I can't tell you how excited I am to receive the book! I have ordered Frost in May from amp, look for it eagerly, can't wait to read it (I have a weakness for convent stories), and now to have another is just lovely! I do so sympathize with your yearning for the great outdoors (I guess) and time away from kids. I think that God intended me for a classroom teacher, but for the last 3 years or so I had been a classroom babysitter - not the same thing at all. I think the system is in a whole bunch of trouble. Retirement is better than I had expected - and I had expected a lot! I wake up and bounce out of bed with joy every single day. I can't tell you how long it has been since that was true. At any rate, hang in there. Children are so needy, and often they will accept what they need from young people rather than old ones.
I'm delighted that you are planning to spend time with my old friend Wheelock! I used the first book one year when I taught at a private school. They had ordered it before they hired me, and I thought that it was daunting for high school students - or my high school students anyway. He is very thorough. If I can help you at any time, just leave your questions for me. I'd love to help!
(And I see that you have D.E. Stevenson. I don't own Miss Buncle's Book, but there are times when the world is so demanding that nothing but DES will do.)
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 11:14 pm (EST) on Apr 14, 2009