tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post2651056038015854058..comments2024-03-07T11:38:48.622-08:00Comments on We Be Reading: At Home with HenriettaKristen M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02335598194501733541noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-85978858103916619282011-03-21T21:46:01.654-07:002011-03-21T21:46:01.654-07:00Al - I'm glad that I could bring these books t...Al - I'm glad that I could bring these books to your attention! They're really fantastic for period language as they were written at the time as if she was writing actual letters.<br /><br />Karen - I have a few more of the Bloomsbury books on the stack and enjoying these has made me more excited for those! I have to look into more Persephone books too!<br /><br />Jenny - This would be a perfect book for a grim day in two ways -- making you see that there has been far worse that people have lived through and also enjoying the humor of these situations. (p.s. I have Hitler's birthday. It's tempered by the fact that it's also my great-grandmother's birthday.)<br /><br />Tracy - I would love a chance/reason to read letters like those. It is really interesting that they wrote about things that they found so odious. And yet, I know that they really did have patriotic feelings about doing them.<br /><br />Jenners - I love the term too! If I wore stockings, I would use the term.Kristen M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02335598194501733541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-53484603522625810952011-03-20T16:59:03.866-07:002011-03-20T16:59:03.866-07:00I love the term ladders.I love the term ladders.Jennershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08044537551139633301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-519029941651389562011-03-20T11:54:18.146-07:002011-03-20T11:54:18.146-07:00These sound excellent - my old workplace had a col...These sound excellent - my old workplace had a collection of real letters from the very beginning of the war until a few years just afterwards - again, lots of little details about rationing, digging for victory etc.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070070360087765540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-8506675483154697382011-03-20T08:27:40.610-07:002011-03-20T08:27:40.610-07:00I have this but I've been saving it against a ...I have this but I've been saving it against a grim grim day when I will really really need it. :p I'll have to get the second volume soon too -- VE Day! (Was exciting, but the real surrender was on my birthday, and then the selfish people of Europe made it the next day. Durn it. VE-Day on my birthday would have had a pleasing circularity, because the Lusitania also sank on my birthday.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-54728174858502156772011-03-20T05:44:33.026-07:002011-03-20T05:44:33.026-07:00I have several of the Bloomsbury books but neither...I have several of the Bloomsbury books but neither of these -- I'll have to add them to my birthday wish list! I'm particularly interested in the home front during WWII. Persephone books also publishes a lot of fiction from this era. Thanks for the review.Karen K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13483190930383406559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-77684319364894292812011-03-20T03:09:23.237-07:002011-03-20T03:09:23.237-07:00These sound fantastically interesting and very use...These sound fantastically interesting and very useful given my current writing interests.<br /><br />Thanks very much for the review!Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com