Here’s my annual round-up of highlights from 2018 posts. (All the links go to my Dreamwidth account.) ( Read more... )

The Outsider: Monica Edwards. The Children’s Book Club, 1962

I’ve always associated Edwards with pony/horse-riding books and avoided her accordingly, but this is more about a family of youngsters and their friends entertaining themselves. First published in 1961, it ( Read more... )

Campfire Girls in the Country (or The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot): Stella M. Francis

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Here is a round-up of some things I posted about last year.( Read more... )

The Encircled Heart: Josephine Elder, Girls Gone By, 2012 reprint. (First published 1951)

Two words from the same root came to mind as I started reading this book: absorbed and absorbing. ( Read more... )

Oops, I didn't post at all during December, not to mention tennis or anything that I read. It was rather a busy month for me, so I was glad of what peace I could get to read over Christmas.

( The Mystery of Alton Grange: E. Everett-Green, The East End Murders: Killing Time: Anne Cassidy and United We Spy: Ally Carter )

Olive Roscoe or The New Sister: E. Everett-Green, Nelson

The first two chapters of this book left me going ‘Blimey.’ In those chapters,( Read more... )

I don't know if I'll get around to typing up a full review of 'Molly Hazeldene's Schooldays' by Maud Forsey, which I read over the holidays, but I felt it should be noted that one of the other school girls is named, rather magnificently, Leah Venus Sheepwash.

Looking back, my favourite Girls Own books read in 2014 were The Scholarship Girl at ( Read more... )

( What I thought of a Daisy Dalrymple mystery; a May Wynne historical novel; a Sally Baxter - girl reporter mystery; and a modern Cornish-set romantic suspense novel. )

The Scholarship Girl at Cambridge: Josephine Elder Girls Gone By Publishers 2012

In this sequel to The Scholarship Girl, (I wrote about it in passing here) we ( Read more... )