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| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Jan 16 2007 : 12:37:52 PM
Hi Gals - Hi Tina Michelle! Would you like to start this all over again???
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Mar 22 2007 : 1:36:20 PM
hey Kathy..post another question please.
Tina
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Mar 22 2007 : 1:28:38 PM
Hi Guys - Karin, your lovely Royal Doulton cup and saucer arrived yesterday - what a stunning pair this is. Thank you so very much!
Looks like we have stalled here for a bit - would someone like to post another question or would you like me to post one for you - no problem either way.
Happy Spring Girls by the way! And aren't we glad to see it finally here!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Mar 14 2007 : 07:15:03 AM
never could figure this out but want the games to continue though.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Mar 05 2007 : 10:58:11 AM
I'm curious too now. I flipped through my M.J. Book, but couldn't figure it out.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
| Libbie |
Posted - Mar 05 2007 : 08:37:34 AM
I am so curious as to who this author is! I read this thread to see what the questions are, because I love reading and books, and you all pick such good ones! I haven't been able to guess one yet, and this is no exception, but I'm waiting with bated breath for the answer!!!
XOXO, Libbie
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| Leezard |
Posted - Mar 05 2007 : 07:32:34 AM
Anyone else want to take a wack at this? I went into the shop across the street and they had some great tea cups and saucers, I just need someone to send one too ;)
As a hint...this is an author that MaryJane referenced in her book, I don't think she referenced this particular book but there was a section about this author.
http://ruby--slippers.blogspot.com/
www.leezard.etsy.com |
| Leezard |
Posted - Feb 25 2007 : 11:22:11 AM
Nope Tina, nothing by Rachel Carson.
http://ruby--slippers.blogspot.com/
www.leezard.etsy.com |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Feb 23 2007 : 10:53:42 AM
Kathy- Your package arrived this afternoon! Love the bunny mug and the seeds. I have put the fudge in the refirgerator as it was a little melty from being in my mailbox! Can't wait to try it.
Thanks so much!
Karin - Oh, your package is going out tomorrow. I need to get a box that fits! |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 10:21:11 AM
Is it by chance the writings of Rachel Carson?
just a wild guess.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
| Leezard |
Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 09:47:37 AM
Bumping this up...not sure if people have lost interest or if I've posted a difficult passage, let me know either way :)
http://ruby--slippers.blogspot.com/
www.leezard.etsy.com |
| Leezard |
Posted - Feb 16 2007 : 07:55:04 AM
I thought maybe it'd be easier to move this back into the original thread so here's my passage.
quote:
Innocent nature lovers think of wilderness as a place where they can go to quaff a little tranquillity-as if tranquillity could be bottled and sold like spring water. They are able to coddle such a fancy only because civilization, which they in certain moods pretend to loathe, allows them to "experience" nature's seeming peacefulness without having to come to grips with its unrelenting violence. They do not understand that Mother Nature can just as often be Old [bleep] Nature. They drive a van into the mountains or fly a plane onto a secluded lake, taking along enough industrial luxuries to keep them comfortable for a week or two. They sip the wilderness briefly. They shoot off guns. Roar motors. Guzzle beer. Play cards. Click cameras. Life doesn't get any better than this, but they hurry back to civilization as soon as they run out of food and film.
http://ruby--slippers.blogspot.com/ |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 07:42:45 AM
Kathy- It's OK. I answer to just about anything! :) I will e-mail you asap.
I'm thinking that I need to pick an easier book to quote from. Check back here later today for a new passage. (And the answer to the old one!)
Karin |
| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 6:00:41 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Mumof3
I know this one!! Well, I think I know this one- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. The house is Manderly. I read this one when I was a teenager.
If this isn't it, I will hang up my literary hat!!!
karin
Karin I can't believe I called you Kim - please forgive me - can you email me your address again so I can start packing something up for you?
Thanks
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 4:40:06 PM
Nope, not from Fannie Farmer. This book is full of recipes intertwined in the story though.
Karin |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 3:33:47 PM
Is it excerpts from the Fannie Farmer cookbook?
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 2:32:26 PM
Hmmmmmmmmmm. No guessers? Ok. Here is another passage and a hint!! Maybe this will entice you! :)
" You cream a cup of butter (a substitute will do in these parlous times) with a cup of sugar. Then you add a cup of molasses, half a cup of buttermilk, into which has been stirred a teaspoonful of soda, and the yelks (they said "yelks") of two eggs. Mix these thoroughly and then stir in one-half teaspoonful each of cloves, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and one of vinegar. (Why these were called "ginger" cookies with so many other pungent ingredients predominating I do not know, but they were. Now you add enough flour to make a dough you can roll. Do not roll all the dough at once (in these or any other cookies), but take a piece at a time, roll it thin, cut out your cookies (you should have a cutter with a knobbly edge), and bake them in a hot oven."
Sound yummy, don't they?
Phew. What a lot of typing. Now for the hint- This book was advertised in the back of the 1937 Boston Cooking School Cook Book for $1.75.
Boy, that's not too obvious, is it? ;)
Karin |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 08:08:13 AM
Okay- here goes! Good luck everyone! This is a true farmgirl book!!
"I do not know whether the age of science has determined by any rule whether the sense of taste, to tickle the tongue, or the sense of smell, to enchant the nose, is more dear to memory, but it is my belief that remembered odors and frangrances are more poignant than those of other senses. For to these are linked a thousand other asociations almost equally dominating. The odor of a cinnamon rose, for instance, brings up the picture of a little country bridge where youthful love first breathed; the pungent odor of sage recalls a kitchen filled with sunshine and the business of preparation of festal days; a tuberose will ever be a reminder of the first anguished inroads of personal grief."
Karin |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 07:04:37 AM
Yay!! I knew that sounded familiar. Thanks, Kathy- you have made me tap into places in my brain that have been a bit quiet the past few years! I have e-mailed you!
Now, a passage, a passage......Stay tuned!!
Karin |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 06:35:45 AM
congrats to Karin! yoohoo!
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
| Nance in France |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 02:45:55 AM
Congrats to our winning literary genius!!!! And Karin, put your hat back on! Nance |
| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 5:17:10 PM
Kim you are CORRECT - I love the atmospheric descriptions in that book - the opening line especially when I began it, was what drew me in - "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again." Manderly sounds so wonderfully romantic.
So dear girl, I will need you to email me your name and address so I can start packing a special box for you - u get to come up with the next literary stumper!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 4:13:37 PM
Kathy,
Is the second passage the first one in the book that Karin already mentioned? |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 3:57:00 PM
I know this one!! Well, I think I know this one- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. The house is Manderly. I read this one when I was a teenager.
If this isn't it, I will hang up my literary hat!!!
karin |
| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 12:43:38 PM
Hop on over to Barnyard Buddies to see my puppy/mom and other puppy!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 12:40:15 PM
I have so many books I am due to have an avalanche soon next to my bed - they will find me buried under stacks of books to be sure - books and animals (hehehe cocker spaniels are my life)let me conjure up a picture of my mom and the surviving puppy and my other cocker baby I recently bought to show you all!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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