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The Birthday Boys - Beryl Bainbridge

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carolyn_ky
14 years ago
The Foreign Field, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Why not? She keeps writing them.
dido1
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14 years ago
The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
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All this talk is nice, but the reality is that a lot of folks move into a previously owned home and most likely don't have the funds at that point in time to redesign from builder/previous homeowner standard to quality design. I can dream up tons of great design's for my own home and have, but I don't have one of the following to make it happen, money, time, or money $$$$. I talking about a complete design, sure i have money to go buy a few plants and stick them around the yard, but doing it all, regrading the lot, pouring new patios and walkways, adding stairs to the deck, putting in another concrete patio for the firepit etc. etc. That's what annoys me the most.....I'm stuck with what i got and what someone before me looked good.
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Decison to disengage roses from soil
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Several years ago good friends gave away all of their HTs to the city gardens. They kept one Abe Darby, One Mme. Plant it here and their Minis. The minis are in raised beds with automatic watering and an easy fertilizing attachment. The soil after so many years is so rich it takes minimal care. They have had fun trying out wierd stuff, pineapple lillies (he has a small greenhouse,) a whole bed of Monarda, huge sunflowers, what ever tickles their fancy. They have stopped giving an annual tour of their gardens. For myself, when RRD struck last year, and having seen other gardens go down in ruin, I decided that I would branch out my interest keeping in mind that I am no spring chicken anymore. I bought a whole bunch of weird no care OP lilies, Chinese Tree Peonies (shaded blooms lasts a week if you are lucky and water me and I will die - I promise,) and other easy care stuff. I have been given permission this year from the Troll (DW) to buy some more roses if I want, as we had a late frost. I am going to replace French Lace even though it is a major pain to keep alive in our zone, a damask Dr. Henry Najat likes that I forgot the name of--- Belle something or other, and perhaps an other Alba. I am going to pass on MIP even though she won several awards at shows. Perhaps I won't. Something to kick around over the long winter. Getting old is not for sissies. What ever you decide please don't plant the EVIL Mr. GRASS! It has to be mowed, fertilized, watered, and it hides snakes. Foghorn Leghorn National Anti Grass Leaque
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OK I Surrender
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This long cold thread of winter certainly covers a lot of snowstorm news and complaints. At least it's white insulation for my perennials. Claire, I always read your reports about Cape conditions since my seaside RI place is similar and we rarely get there over the winter; so I can get an idea of what the snow and wind is doing there. pbgardener, Marin is so lovely that we're going out there for a week in April -- looking forward to seeing the wildflowers along the Marin Headlands trails. But meanwhile, let me tell you all of the Big Ironic Trip I took last week -- just returning to MA today. I drove down to Charleston SC to enjoy t shirt weather, biking, and the camellias in bloom. Got one good day, then rain then snow rushed in, followed by extreme cold and scary driving. So I'm giving up, heading back to the world of mukluks, snowblowers and Ice Melt sprinklers. Maybe next year (sigh). But I did get to visit the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield NC! Off-topic for gardening, but her name is right. Carol
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The Importance of a Good Title
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Liz's post on the May thread reminded me that I had the hardest time with remembering Levy's Small Island for a book club. I normally have an excellent memory - though not that of my younger days - and I simply could not remember either the title of the book or the author when I went to the book store. I must have checked the email 6 times before I finally wrote myself a note to take with me to the booksellers. Not a good title perhaps, but I loved the book. My introduction to James Lee Burke was In the Electric Mist with a Confederate General at the library. How could I pass up such a title? I'm embarrassed to admit, but my first Elizabeth Peter's novel, picked up purely for the title, was Naked at Lunch. I agree that Zelazny had some excellent titles - the Short story A Rose for Ecclesiastes is a favorite. How about Stone's titles? The Agony and the Ecstasy is good. For Whom the Bell Tolls Freeman Dyson's Disturbing the Universe M.F.K. Fisher's book about cooking during WWII food rationing, How to Cook a Wolf Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Berendt A good title is much more likely to pull me in than good cover art.
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veer
14 years ago
Under an English Heaven - Robert Radcliffe

(the last three titles are taken from a well-known English poem by Rupert Brooke: see below)

Here is a link that might be useful: The Soldier
phyllis__mn
14 years ago
Evil Under the Sun...........Agatha Christie
woodnymph2_gw
14 years ago
Two Under the Indian Sun- Jon & Rumer Godden
Kath
14 years ago
The Raj Quartet - Paul Scott
junek-2009
14 years ago
Playing For Time - Fania Fenelon
veer
14 years ago
The Romantic Piano Masters: Schubert Chopin Liszt - Paul Negri
Kath
14 years ago
The Book of Lists - David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace and Irving Wallace
veer
14 years ago
Leaning Over - Frances Itani
leel
14 years ago
Bent by Sean Michael
veer
14 years ago
Twisted Roots - Virginia Andrews
sheriz6
14 years ago
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation - Rawn James Jr.
junek-2009
14 years ago
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Betty Smith
dido1
Original Author
14 years ago
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Kath
14 years ago
The Chamomile Lawn - Mary Wesley
leel
14 years ago
Tea and Sympathy by Anita Naughton
woodnymph2_gw
14 years ago
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
lemonhead101
14 years ago
Death by Chocolate: The Last Word on a Consuming Passion - Marcel Desaulniers
carolyn_ky
14 years ago
Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt, Karen Scalf Linamen
veer
14 years ago
Chocolate Wars - Deborah Cadbury
junek-2009
14 years ago
A Chocolate Soldier - Cyrus Colter
phyllis__mn
14 years ago
The Winds of War....Herman Wouk
dynomutt
14 years ago
Gone With The Wind -- Margaret Mitchell
veer
14 years ago
Blown Away - F Dixon
junek-2009
14 years ago
Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Graham
lemonhead101
14 years ago
The Wind - Dorothy Scarborough
veer
14 years ago
Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter - Lisa Patton
junek-2009
14 years ago
East Of Eden - John Steinbeck
lemonhead101
14 years ago
Paradise Lost by John Milton
phyllis__mn
14 years ago
Leave Her to Heaven....Ben Ames Williams
donnamira
14 years ago
War in Heaven .... Charles Williams
veer
14 years ago
From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels - V Rees
dido1
Original Author
14 years ago
A Vision of Judgement - Lord Byron
junek-2009
14 years ago
The Judgment of Caesar - Steven Saylor
carolyn_ky
14 years ago
Caesar's Women, Colleen McCullough
veer
14 years ago
Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
phyllis__mn
14 years ago
The Beans of Egypt, Maine....Carolyn Chute
leel
13 years ago
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2010: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
veer
13 years ago
Floating in Space - John Powell

(nice one leel)
junek-2009
13 years ago
Memories From A Sinking Ship - Barry Gifford
Kath
13 years ago
The Wreck of the Hesperus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
dido1
Original Author
13 years ago
The Convergence of the Twain - THomas Hardy
(on the sinking of the Titanic)
Kath
13 years ago
Two for the Dough - Janet Evanovich
phyllis__mn
13 years ago
Bread Upon the Waters....Irwin Shaw
junek-2009
13 years ago
The Baker - Paul Hond
deep___roots
13 years ago
hondo / louis l'amour
carolyn_ky
13 years ago
The Heart Has Reasons, Stephanie Kincaid
sheriz6
13 years ago
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
leel
13 years ago
Egg and I by Betty MacDonald

(let's put this series out of its misery & start a new one for May!)

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