[Publib] Cheerful books'

[Sue Kamm]

Donna Andrews's Meg Langslow mysteries, beginning with MURDER WITH PEACOCKS.  Meg's widespread and charmingly eccentric family provides at least one good laugh per book.  

Your friendly neighborhood CyberGoddess and ALA Councilor-at-Large,
Sue Kamm
Los Angeles/Inglewood, CA
email:  suekamm AT mindspring DOT com
blog: http://suekamm.blogspot.com
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone."
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti, "Green Fields of the Mind."

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kathleen Stipek 
  To: Holly Wolf ; publib at webjunction.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:09 AM
  Subject: RE: [Publib] Cheerful books


  #1 Ladies Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith
  Anything by P.G. Wodehouse or Robert Benchley, any of Pat McManus's outdoors essays collections
  The Provincial Lady books by E.M. Delafield
  The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks by Robertson Davies
  Most of Gerald Durrell's reminiscences

  Kathleen Stipek

  Alachua County Library District

  401 East University Avenue

  Gainesville, Florida 32601

  352-334-3931 fax 352-334-3948

   

  Non, merci.




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  From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Holly Wolf
  Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:39 PM
  To: publib at webjunction.org
  Subject: [Publib] Cheerful books


  Has anyone else been getting requests for "cheerful books?"  I've had two this week, and I'm just part-time.

  What do you recommend?  To get you started, Garden Spells and Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for recent titles, Walk Across America, Cheaper by the Dozen and anything by Miss Read for old standbys.  

  TIA--

  Holly Wolf

  wolf.holly at gmail.com



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