'Letters from Pemberley: The First Year' by Jane.

'The Hound of the Baskervilles' Read-Along Index.

A Birthday Blog Party for Sherlock Holmes.

'Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze' by Elizabeth.

I Love Library Books Challenge 2014 Wrap-Up.

'One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories' by B.

This is my sixteenth book read and reviewed for the Classics Club and my seventeenth for the I Love Library Books challenge. This is one of those wicked anonymous letters you read about in novels (p. It makes you want to devote your life to wearing clothes (p. 49).īut aren't the streets entertaining? And the people? And the shops? I never saw such lovely things as there are in the windows. I found a copy of the sequel, Dear Enemy, at the thrift store, so I'm hoping to start that before too terribly long.įirst Line: The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day - a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage, and forgotten with haste.Īnybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit (p.

It would be too big a coincidence.' So I figure that's what she thought. But then I realized that if I was in her position, I would be like, 'No way.

I did see the plot twist of sorts coming, and was a little annoyed at first that Jerusha didn't.

She was sarcastic, yet sweet studious, yet playful. But that orphan, Jerusha 'Judy' Abbott, won the hearts of her benefactor and yours truly with her buoyant worldview and wonder-filled description of life outside the orphanage at last.

An orphan gets sent to college by an anonymous benefactor who pays her way on the condition that she write him regular letters detailing her progress. And, let's be honest: the idea behind it is cutesy. But I wasn't sure at all that I would like it.Īt first, I thought it was cutesy. Lots and lots of bloggers have recommended this to me over the past couple of years, so when I saw it on the shelf in the Junior Fiction section at the library, I decided to try it. Put this at the top of the list of books I started reading with a ho-hum attitude and wound up absolutely loving.

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