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  • February 26, 2022 Welcome to Television Land: The Children on the Top Floor by Noel Streatfeild (1964)

  • February 12, 2022 Some years in the law: Jumping Off the Donkey by John Barnsley (1983)

  • February 9, 2022 Interplanetary slugs and sexism: The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein (1951)

  • February 6, 2022 Strange Americana: Norwood by Charles Portis (1966)

  • February 5, 2022 Survivors and otherwise: They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple (1943)

  • February 2, 2022 Sin, Death and a Picnic: The Feast by Margaret Kennedy (1950)

  • February 2, 2022 Sketch portrait of a marriage and a man: My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes (1931)

  • February 1, 2022 Analyzing Japan: Black Fountains by Oswald Wynd

  • January 30, 2022 Where did she come from, where did she go? The Finger of Saturn by Victor Canning (1973)

  • January 27, 2022 Settling down and pairing up: Susan Settles Down(1936) and Touch Not the Nettle(1939) by Molly Clavering

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  • These “Reviews” and Ratings

    I am merely a reader, a consumer of books for amusement and personal instruction, not a professional reviewer - and that is indeed a worthy profession, an important literary craft - so these posts are merely meant to be one person's reading responses, not scholarly reviews.

    Early on in this blog I began rating the books I talked about on a 1 to 10 scale; it was meant to be a quick way to communicate my personal degree of satisfaction/pleasure (or the opposite) in each reading experience.

    To emphasize: These are very personal, completely arbitrary ratings. These are merely meant to be a measure of the book's success in meeting my hopes and expectations as a reader.

    5 & higher are what I consider as "keepers", in various degrees. A 10 indicates that I can think of no possible improvement. Ratings under 5 are rare & I struggle with giving those, but in all honesty sometimes feel them appropriate for, again, undeniably arbitrary and very personal reasons.

    Each book is rated in its own context, NOT in comparison to the entire range of literature, which would, of course, be an impossible task.

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    • Welcome to Television Land: The Children on the Top Floor by Noel Streatfeild (1964)
    • Some years in the law: Jumping Off the Donkey by John Barnsley (1983)
    • Interplanetary slugs and sexism: The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein (1951)
    • Strange Americana: Norwood by Charles Portis (1966)
    • Survivors and otherwise: They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple (1943)
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