Book Board Chat

acuity4u Thanks for pointing out the info about the unfinished Jane Austen manuscript auction. I hope they will publish it someday. She's an all time favorite of mine.

michelle There's an awful lot to think about in the article your mother sent you. Unfortunately so much of it seems to be coming true. They are so busy trying to keep us safe that they're treading on many of our individual freedoms. I think it's the insurance companies that are behind most of it - JMHO.

I'm starting a new mystery series by Ann Purser - Murder on Monday. Has anyone else read her books?. The blurb says, "Maeve Binchy’s readers will enjoy this warmhearted but candid look at English village life". I'm a sucker for mystery series that take place in small towns. I like getting to know the characters and watching their lives unfold in subsequent books. I think this chat line is sort of like one of those small villages (without a murder mystery of course).

I've been enjoying all the cat and dog and steer stories and pictures lately. I love all animals, but about 15 years ago (after having had pets all my life) I became allergic to fur and feathers. So I switched to reptiles and had a little rosy boa for many years. His name was Lambchop. His favorite trick was pulling peoples glasses off and dropping them on the floor. He was so pretty and cute that he fascinated even people who didn’t like snakes. If they didn’t wear glasses they got a snake kiss, but if they did – in a second their glasses were on the floor! I should have entered him in Silly Pet Tricks. A young boy next door would come over often to play with him (they need constant socialization) and since they were moving and he was so sad about leaving him, I gave him Lambchop.

Then I had a Siberian cat named Mikki. They are non-allergenic. I lived upstairs from my parents then and, when he was kitten, he played with my parent’s two Yorkies, but as he got older, he decided he wanted to be the only pet in the household and tried to kill one of them. He went back to the breeder. Haven't had a pet since and I do miss them