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The Rosemary Tree
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I would have given this 5 stars if it had not had the language that it did. That, and one chapter detailing a story that could have been left out, are the only things I did not like about this book. It's not quite as powerful as The Dean's Watch, but it has a good storyline, and the characters were very dear. I was a little surprised with the outcome of Mrs. Belling (view spoiler)
Over all, a very nice story.
Over all, a very nice story.
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Reading Progress
August 1, 2020
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August 1, 2020
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to-read
September 11, 2020
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Started Reading
September 11, 2020
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6.82%
""In his eagerness he hardly stopped to wonder, as he normally did whenever he entered his home, why the builders of Victorian vicarages had so concentrated upon darkness, draughts and unwanted space."
"He took off his coat, rolled up his shirtsleeves, lifted up to Almighty God the magnitude of his failure and the triviality of his task, and applied himself to the latter.""
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"He took off his coat, rolled up his shirtsleeves, lifted up to Almighty God the magnitude of his failure and the triviality of his task, and applied himself to the latter.""
September 12, 2020
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11.55%
""Nerves," thought Harriet, "We never had them when I was young. Tinned food and aeroplanes. Strawberries at Christmas and travelling faster than sound. Flying in the face of Providence don't give the stomach a chance. Dear God, why can't they laugh at each other? There's a yaffingale laughing." She folded her hands under her rug. "Dear God, why can't they let that laughing bird teach them a bit of sense?""
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September 13, 2020
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16.27%
""Seeds blow into crannies in the rock, dead-looking brown things hardly larger than grains of dust, and then unbelievably flower into snapdragon and valerian. It was miraculous how such gay things could grow in the rock. And if she stayed here much longer it would be miraculous if there was any lunch."
I love reading about Winkle's dream world."
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I love reading about Winkle's dream world."
September 15, 2020
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25.46%
""Fool," she said to herself. "It's the tooth. The world seems so abominably wicked when a tooth is still in and so dreadfully pathetic when a tooth's just out. I expect the only really balanced people are the people with dentures." 😂"
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97
September 18, 2020
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25.46%
""Now, angels and ministers of light," murmured Michael desperately below his breath, "if it be that you exist at all in contraposition to the terrestrial furies, be with me now and grant my hand and eye and resolution that perfect co-ordination which shall project this pig - in through the front door?" he asked Miss Wentworth in interpolation.
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"Through the front door," whispered Michael. "Amen.""
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"Through the front door," whispered Michael. "Amen.""
September 22, 2020
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47.51%
"Above all, she loved the dawn skies with their alternations of bright beauty, flaming so quickly to the penultimate splendor, then passing from glory to glory until the colors were lost in the splendor if the full day. Her eyes could never seem to catch the moment of change; in the span of a breath one glory had passed and another was passing and she could not halt the moments as they came..."
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September 30, 2020
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70.87%
"The flowers about him, many-colored beneath the sparkle of the dew, the branches misted with green and swaying in the morning wind, the rose-tinted sky of this April morning, were the faint reflection of a glory he had known and possessed still as seed in the darkness of the soul. He would know it again when the seed had come to flower."
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October 8, 2020
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Finished Reading
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Ruth wrote: "Hi Dorothy I trust you are enjoying this read?
How do like it so far?"
Oh, yes, thoroughly! An occasional bit of language, but so far I love it.
I trust you are enjoying this read?
How do like it so far?