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[miss stav]

Yes, yes, this is a cleaining mounth. But I found this very interesting book and decided to put it in the book suggestions in order that someone might wish to record it. Here is a nice summary of the book:
"The Grey family live in the tranquil English village of Deerbrook, to which, one summer, come their distant cousins from Birmingham, Hester and Margaret Ibbotson. The arrival of the recently orphaned cousins causes a sensation in the small community. The twenty-one-year-old Hester has the gift of great beauty and the terrible fault of jealousy, while Margaret, a year her junior, is her inferior in looks, though vastly superior in intelligence and disposition. Finding themselves the object of curiosity, admiration, and pity, they are quickly absorbed into the intricacies of village life: we enter the world of Jane Austen and the Brontës as we watch the two sisters fall in love with the two most eligible men in Deerbrook."
I would love to help with this book in any way I can. But would you like to record it? I would be so glad if you would. I want to see this wonderful book taken by someone (as a solo or as a collaborative). And you ask yourself why I think it's a wonderful book? so here are the opening paragraphs of this novel:
"Every town-bred person who travels in a rich country region, knows what
it is to see a neat white house planted in a pretty situation,--in a
shrubbery, or commanding a sunny common, or nestling between two
hills,--and to say to himself, as the carriage sweeps past its gate, "I
should like to live there,"--"I could be very happy in that pretty
place." Transient visions pass before his mind's eye of dewy summer
mornings, when the shadows are long on the grass, and of bright autumn
afternoons, when it would be luxury to saunter in the neighbouring
lanes; and of frosty winter days, when the sun shines in over the
laurustinus at the window, while the fire burns with a different light
from that which it gives in the dull parlours of a city.

 Mr Grey's house had probably been the object of this kind of
speculation to one or more persons, three times a week, ever since the
stage-coach had begun to pass through Deerbrook. Deerbrook was a rather
pretty village, dignified as it was with the woods of a fine park, which
formed the background to its best points of view. Of this pretty
village, Mr Grey's was the prettiest house, standing in a field, round
which the road swept. There were trees enough about it to shade without
darkening it, and the garden and shrubbery behind were evidently of no
contemptible extent. The timber and coal yards, and granaries, which
stretched down to the river side, were hidden by a nice management of
the garden walls, and training of the shrubbery."
 
Here is a link to an etext:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24210 -
Hope you'll find this bok interesting.
Stav.
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