Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Baroness Orczy, Book Reviews, Challenges, Heart of a Child, What's In a Name on Jul 9th, 2008
I’ve had my copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel for a long time. I can’t remember how long and there is no date in the book - all I know is that it cost 3s 6d and I must have been about 11, 12 or 13 when I first read it. Once I started to read it [...]
Posted in Books, Heart of a Child on Apr 9th, 2008
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published in 1911, my copy is a Penguin paperback published in 1958, 254 pages.
For the Heart of a Child Challenge
I read The Secret Garden several times as a child and the story has stayed with me ever since. For years my picture of the ideal garden has [...]
Posted in Books, Heart of a Child on Feb 11th, 2008
When I read about the Heart of a Child Challenge I immediately thought of several books that I still had, Mr Blossom’s Shop being one of them. I remembered reading it as a child and hadn’t given it away because it was a prize from Sunday School for attendance. When I was a child every [...]
Posted in Books, Heart of a Child on Feb 2nd, 2008
I really shouldn’t be entering another challenge, but I just can’t resist this one. It’s being run by Becky at Becky’s Book Reviews - see her post on this challenge here.
The challenge is to read 3 to 6 books between February 1, 2008 and July 14, 2008, choosing from books and authors that you [...]
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