From cover

Eleanor Tennant is furious when her niece, advised by a popular lady columnist, runs off with a notorious rake. Eleanor discovers "The Busybody" is actually an attractive man named Simon Westover. To protect his identity, Simon agrees to help Eleanor search the English countryside for her niece--and prove to her that dreams of love can come true.

Mailing to skyblue505 as a RABCK today.

thank you!

thanks for the trade.

Thanks so much for the books! I have spent the weekend in hospital with my almost 7 year old. She was very unexpectedly diagnosed with diabetes and to come home to this box was wonderful. So ... hugs to you.

Update March 6th, 2006 -- Randomly chosen to be next after The Rich Stranger, by Brownwyn Jamieson, c. 2005.

aah, a bookring has come in and has to take precedence. It is
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer, c. 2004.

hee, hee another bookring emerged ... It is
Where or When by Anita Shreve, c. 1993

I collect quotes as I read. These ones are fun, poetical, or even philosophical. Take what you like, and leave the rest. Note that these aren't necessarily the "best" in the book. These happen to be close to the spot where I stopped reading each night.

"Why must you assume that everyone thinks and believes and acts as you do?" She seemed to be continuing their earlier conversation, as though several silent hours had not passed. "Just because I happen to have a more practical approach to life does not mean I am unhappy or have suffered a broken heart. It simply makes me a realist. Not a cynic, as you always claim. A realist." p218

Giving to Penne across the road ..