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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
 Posted - Jan 27 2007 : 10:12:14 AM
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| Bless you, Kathy, oh learned one (and obviously well read chic) for not prolonging our agony any longer. Can't wait to see what you come up with next! Nance |
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9327 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9327 Posts |
Posted - Jan 27 2007 : 12:15:36 PM
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I'm not in on this but I can't wait to find out who it is. My daughter is an avid reader and she didn't come up with anything. Maybe I'll join in next time around.
Denise |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 12:17:38 PM
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Okay girls - here is the next one for you to guess the book!
"The little pathway down the valley to the bay had clumps of azalea and rhododendron planted to the left of it, and if you wandered down it on a May evening after dinner it was just as though the shrubs had sweated in the air. You could stoop down and pick a fallen petal, crush it between your fingers, and you had there, in the hollow of your hand, the essence of a thousand scents, unbearable and sweet. All from a curled and crumpled petal. Any you came out of the valley, heady and rather dazed, to the hard white shingle of the beach and the still water. A curious, perhaps too sudden contrast..."
Another passage
"Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, even upon a dreamer's fancy. As I stood there, hushed and still, I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before.
"Light came from the windows, the curtains blew softly in the night air, and there, in the library, the door would stand half open as we had left it, with my handkerchief on the table beside the bowl of autumn roses."
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 12:27:23 PM
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| Kathy, methinks it benefits thou greatly that thou hast a veritable castle full of books to conjure thine obscure passages from!!!! Love ya anyway, Nance (feeling dumb) in France |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 12:40:15 PM
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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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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 3:57:00 PM
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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!!!
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9327 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9327 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 4:13:37 PM
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Kathy,
Is the second passage the first one in the book that Karin already mentioned? |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 5:17:10 PM
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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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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 02:45:55 AM
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| Congrats to our winning literary genius!!!! And Karin, put your hat back on! Nance |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 06:35:45 AM
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congrats to Karin! yoohoo!
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 07:04:37 AM
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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 |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 08:08:13 AM
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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 |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 2:32:26 PM
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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 |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 3:33:47 PM
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Is it excerpts from the Fannie Farmer cookbook?
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 4:40:06 PM
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Nope, not from Fannie Farmer. This book is full of recipes intertwined in the story though.
Karin |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 6:00:41 PM
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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
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 07:42:45 AM
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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 |
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
950 Posts |
Posted - Feb 16 2007 : 07:55:04 AM
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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.
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
950 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2007 : 10:21:11 AM
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Is it by chance the writings of Rachel Carson?
just a wild guess.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Feb 23 2007 : 10:53:42 AM
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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! |
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
950 Posts |
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
950 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2007 : 07:32:34 AM
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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 |
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
3579 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2007 : 08:37:34 AM
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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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