Comments on: 2024 Books Read – a Partial List (with notes) – Fiction

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:51:15 +0000

In reply to Ally Bean. You're welcome, Ms Bean. The Shell Seeker books are my comfort books. :-)

By: Ally Bean

Ally Bean — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:16:16 +0000

Interesting assortment of books. Thanks for sharing them with us. I remember reading Like Water for Chocolate and adoring it. I saw the movie years ago and don’t remember much about it, the book was better. I’m going to look for the Rosamund Pilcher Shell Seeker series, I’ve heard of it but never read any.

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:02:11 +0000

In reply to Jacqui Murray. Thanks for stopping by and perusing my partial list. It's fun to find a possible 'next read' that way, isn't it?

By: Jacqui Murray

Jacqui Murray — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:29:42 +0000

You read a lot of books that look interesting to me, too!

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:34:35 +0000

In reply to skvanzandt. Happy New Year to you, too! Rereads are always comfy cozy reads IMHO!

By: skvanzandt

skvanzandt — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:57:56 +0000

In reply to laura bruno lilly. Wow, interesting list! I read A Painted House a long time ago and loved it. Might be time for a reread for me, too. Will check out some of the others. Happy New Year!

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:39:51 +0000

In reply to Lavinia Ross.

I looked it up and read some of the excerpts. Looks like something I’d like, too. FYI: the part about Hooke’s microscope brought a memory long tucked away. When I was in 4th(?) grade, I received a kit to assemble my own microscope…yes, I was very much into the sciences…it was a working model based upon Hooke’s. The following Christmas I asked for a ‘real’ microscope and got one with a frog to dissect. It took me awhile to dissect the frog, but I loved taking samples of blood, water, etc and making slides to observe under that microscope. No, I don’t believe those gifts were all that expensive, just the times (60s) provided more variety of kid accessible things to explore with.
Thanks for stopping by, Lavinia! That really made my day.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:55:55 +0000

In reply to laura bruno lilly. I’ll be tuning in!

By: Lavinia Ross

Lavinia Ross — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:05:56 +0000

I have a good bit of catching up to do with you, Laura. The book I am currently reading is Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “Song of the Cell”, a mixture of memoir and history of Cell Biology.

By: Khaya Ronkainen

Khaya Ronkainen — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:03:14 +0000

In reply to laura bruno lilly. <3