One of my favorite things to do......enjoy a good book on a peaceful day out in the country
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I'm about halfway through this one and it's pretty good so far! The descriptions of 1950s fashions and things in this era are great! |
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| This was a great book, I loved it! |
the book below by Patrick and his wife Lisa was interesting. Patrick was one of my most favorite actors beginning with the tv mini series "The North and the South" in 1985. (based on John Jakes books)
The show had so many well known stars! ----James Read, Johnny Cash, James Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley- Ann Down, Kirstie Alley, Genie Francis, Gene Kelly, Olivia de Havilland, Jonathon Frakes, Robert Mitchum, Morgan Fairchild, Jean Simmons, Hal Holbook, Wayne Newton and others.
Patrick went on to a very successful movie career best known in "Ghost" and "Dirty Dancing".
We used to walk by so many of the places/streets/homes where they filmed the series when we lived in Charleston.
below, Patrick and Lisa's book jacket:
I just finished this book:
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| it was a good story |
Some of the magazines I read have interesting book reviews and show new books:
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| First magazine (I got a mail notice that First magazine is shutting down after the last June issue, I believe. I've subscribed to that magazine for years) Lots of magazines are just shutting down and I hate that as I love reading them in magazine form and not online. I hated when Reminisce shut down, that was one of my longtime favorites. |
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| Woman's World magazine |
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| Woman's World magazine |
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| Woman's World magazine |
Do you have favorite books, authors, magazines?
It was a HOT weekend here, and also lots of good hard rain. Good for the gardens.
Hope you have a great week coming up!
I adore the pic of you sitting in the meadow reading! You must read FAST!
ReplyDeleteLooking at the Pantheon scroll down, with the decades delineated by the skirt lengths and the typeset and the hair styles, and despite my just sitting here drying my hair, in getting ready for my granddaughter's last home band concert before they leave for an invitational in Prague, I'm feeling a lingering regret. It's been mine, off and on, like a subtle nudge of DOLOR on occasion, or a deep moment of sorrow when I see that a beloved author has passed away.
ReplyDeleteI've had this feeling way since perhaps the seventies, in the passings of my childhood favorites, and the slicing regret that they were still HERE in my grown up years, and that I let them all, one by one, slip away, unsung (except my paeans and praises to a few on LAWN TEA over the years) and unlauded, and plain old given the THANK YOU they well deserved. Nora Lofts and Agatha Christie and Gladys Sligh Turnbull and Gladys Taber spreading her Butternut Wisdom still, in my adulthood in ladies' magazines---with all my freshet of WORDS that I seem to spout, I could have surely told a few of them how much their words meant to a small-town girl who never proposed to be anything else, who took those hot Delta Days and sublet them to the clear chill of the Highlands, or the Moors, or the byways and Mews of London, the pioneer West and the drawing-rooms of Dolly Bantry (including the famous LIBRARY).
Why didn't I give them their due---I was grown up when they were still going strong, and could have easily played Fan Girl to any one of those intrepid ladies. Many many others on my list, but I must heed the dryer's call and get out my evening duds before my Limo arrives at 6:40. And tomorrow I'm searching out a few more of my past beloveds, and I'm gonna write some LETTERS.
My favorite read used to be Janet Daily when I was younger. I find it so usual that an author can pass, like Janet in 2013 but still have books coming out in their name. I know, they have someone to finish them up....but it can throw you off. Janet has one scheduled to come out in 2026. My sil's mom Eva McCall had one finished up that came out in 2021. We lost Eva in 2017. I have been trying to get back into reading but I think the TV las taken up that space. In the winter I used to read more but I don't even seem to do that anymore. Gotta work on that.
ReplyDeleteYou look like an elegant Southern lady at your leisure. I don't look like that at all when I'm outside in the heat! But I got my hair cut shorter and that helped this trip. Love the books you've shared. I've read the lost names and it was so good. I'll look for some of the others! I read a lot when it's too hot to 'work'! Hugs!
ReplyDeleteI don't know how I missed this post last week! Sometimes I get so behind in my reading and posts scroll down on my list before I get to them! I LOVE this picture of you all dressed up in your yard with a book...You are the quintessential Southern Lady! Love it! Oh, I remember the series The North and The South. I bet my hubby would enjoy that too, but we don't have a DVD player hooked up to the TV anymore. We have one somewhere, but just never hooked it up when we got the big flat screen tv! LOL We are way behind the times. You are quite the reader! I don't know how you have time to read so much with all you do on your beautiful little farm, feeding the chickens and other critters and planting and growing so many wonderful flowers and things. You are amazing! I enjoyed this and the newer post, which I will go back and comment on. I'm sorry to be so far behind. I guess we've just had a lot going on lately! I know you understand that! (((HUGS)))
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