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Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce

Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce

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I started reading when I was four years old, and I pretty much haven't stopped since. As my mother has remarked, if there's nothing else available, I will read the toothpaste tube. I read everything except romance novels, and as long as the book is well written, I'll finish it even if I'm not thrilled by the story. I guess I'm always... more »
  • In Medias Res, VA, USA
  • member since February 21, 2007

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  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Winking smiley face.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    I've been trying to respond about QV, but bloody Shelf won't let me.

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  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    One must always have something sensational to read on the train.

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  • Laura S

    Laura S says

    Hi! Not spoken to you on here for a while so just thought I'd drop by to say Hello. Have you read any good books so far in 2011?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    I've made a memorandum in my diary.

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  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Hmm, perhaps I shall suggest the American book for our last leg.

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  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Ah, "The Diary..." That's another one that I must read. Aren't there a few where she goes abroad?

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  • Lady Dee

    Lady Dee says

    'Allo! :) I was wondering if you had any news of the 9th Sisters Grimm? I bought the 8 last year and am a little astounded at how much he's stretching things. But I still want the 9th!

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  • john b

    john b says

    Hi:
    I have published three ebooks on Amazon Kindle, Smashwords, B&N, etc., and would be delighted if you would add one or more of these books to your TBR list. If you could also write a review, that would be super.

    The titles and links for the books are as follows:
    The Ghost Of A Flea - Murder in the Big Apple
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003WQBD96
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003WQBD96
    https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/20838
    Quarantine – A sci-fi thriller set in East Africa
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003ZSHNUO
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003ZSHNUO
    https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/21720
    The Watcher – An occult horror thriller set in New England
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043GX1C6
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0043GX1C6
    https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/24837

    Thank you for taking the time to consider my request.
    Have a great day.
    John Brinling, author

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  • Sir Esmé Bassington-Bassington, KBE

    Sir Esmé Bassington-Bassington, KBE says

    VIA ROYAL MAIL

    Dear Mrs. Barksby-Price:

    In recognition of your unsurpassed participation in Anglophiles Anonymous throughout the year, The Queen has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the founding of said fellowship, to award you the Brontë Cross.

    Please allow me to extend my congratulations.

    Yours sincerely,

    Sir Esmé Bassington-Bassington, KBE
    Central Chancery for the Orders of Knighthood
    St. James's Palace, London SW1

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  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Oh, they let it through !

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  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    What a great word-eeep ! It has just joined my own vocabulary.

    Thank you for your advice & info, it's much appreciated.

    All we can do is hope that a lightbulb goes on before too long.

    I particularly dislike it when fantasists cash in on real tragedies by pretending that they are involved, as I have known too many genuine survivors to be tolerant of this.

    I am impressed by your shelf, as I have been too lazy to put much on mine :( When I began, it was impossible to put books that were out of print or that Shelfari hadn't heard of on one's own shelf & this was a great time-waster.

    At one time they wouldn't allow 'Of Human Bondage' to be mentioned. What minds some people must have.

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  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    While some of the lies/fantasies are funny-they are so utterly ridiculous-the other things aren't. My poor lonely divorcee friend was stalked & manipulated by an undoubted expert & is now having what a gay friend genteelly calls a 'mind f*ck' performed upon him. Antagonising friends & family so that she looks like a loyal & dependable person by contrast. Old but good.

    It's like something from a Ruth Rendell book ! Let's hope he breaks the spell before he's cleaned out emotionally & financially.

    I had to laugh when the story of my mother's schooldays at a British public school were relayed back to me as having happened to Mrs N-S !

    And as my family houses in Ulster are genuinely large-really large-and impressive, hers keep growing to keep up...

    Did you see the two 'survivors' ? What would you DO ? Hope like mad that they were also a liar ? They couldn't contradict each other, of course, and one had to pretend to remember the other when the other got in first . Neither could afford to expose the other, of course-and there'd be that fear (terror) that the other was genuine. I bet they were both in a sweat !

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  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    I've just reread your remarks about the couriers. How true; I always act as if they've given me a lovely present & so, I imagine, does everyone else. They bring me a book that I've ordered and are greeted with delighted surprise & cries of 'Oh thank you !!! How lovely !!! Thank you !!!'

    They must feel like Santa Claus every day.

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  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Groan. Thank you.



    How odd to find two...I don't know if they believe each other or back up each other's bizarre fantasies. Like those two 'Holocaust survivors' who claimed to have been children in Auschwitz and were brought together ! Well, what could you do ? Impossible to say that you didn't want to meet the other-what REASON could you give ?

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  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Oh Lud. Mrs Narcissist-Sociopath has a friend like herself-claims that one of the Pike River men was her grandson. Alas, the real gran & other brothers & sisters of the 'only son' were on the news. Oops.

    Is this sort of fantasy aligned to N'ism ? It gained her a lot of sympathy, of course; the poor thing had heard that it was her only remaining child out of five down there & then, I suppose, had to claim his son as her grandson when we heard that the supposed son had survived...I imagine that this sort of lie takes on a life of its own & has to be continued & embellished ! It may have seemed a safe sympathy bid when we didn't know that they were all dead. But surely a sane person would realise that there was a chance of its being found out...do you know much about these bizarre fantasies ?

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  • Dame Dixie

    Dame Dixie says

    You are absolutely right.

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  • Dame Dixie

    Dame Dixie says

    Oh, I've read all right. About 140 student papers a week. I'm hitting the books once the semester is done! I've missed all of you so much.
    XXX

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  • Dame Dixie

    Dame Dixie says

    I need some light and frothy to get me back into reading mode. Any suggestions?

    I've only three weeks of the semester left. I can hardly wait to wedge my nose into a book rather than turning it up at student papers.
    XXX

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  • Lady Dee

    Lady Dee says

    Daisy, didn't you get 'The Magician's Guild' last Christmas?

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