Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Come one, come all, to Sunday Snippets ! Thanks to RAnn for hosting!  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.  How about sharing yours?

Semper Gaudete!: Well, you KNOW I love the Betsy-Tacy books!

Semper Gaudete!: Thanks to the Singer Sewing Machine Company

Semper Gaudete!: Wrong Again, Mr. President!

Semper Gaudete!: Throwback Thursday

Semper Gaudete!: This Week's Fan Fiction

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"In A Great Tradition
Tribute to Dame Laurentia McLachlan,
Abbess of Stanbrook" #
by The Benedictines of Stanbrook
(I am very glad to have this book.  Rumer Godden
wrote in In This House of Brede: "All of the characters
in this book are imaginary, but many of the episodes
are based on fact; some are taken from the life and
sayings of Dame Laurentia McLachlan and Sister Mary
Ann McArdle of Stanbrook Abbey."
"In This House of Brede,"
by Rumer Godden
[fiction]
{Sunday Books}

"The Imitation of Mary In Four Books" #
by Alexander De Rouville
Revised and Edited by Matthew J. O'Connell
[devotional reading, Catholic]
(one chapter a day; more on Sunday 

"The Mother-Daughter Book Club" #

{carried over from last week}

"Much Ado About Anne" #

by Heather Vogel Frederick

[children's fiction]

(that Mrs. Chadwick makes me think of a fat,
modern-day Harriet Oleson from the "Little House
on the Prairie" tv show.)


"Marya of Clark Avenue"

by Marie Halun Bloch

[children's fiction, based on the author's childhood]

(this is one of my VERY  favorite books,

one of my SPECIAL books.)

"Portrait of Lies"
by Dandi Daley Mackall
"Tangled Web"
by Kristi Holl

[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant, denomination

 or denominations not specified ) 

( todays.girls.com series, created by Terry K. Brown) ]

(openlibrary.org loans) 

Some, but not all, of the books in this series

were lost when I moved, so thank God for

free online books!

"Lily The Rebel"

"Lights, Action, Lily!"

by Nancy Rue

[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant; no denomination
specified) ]

"How To Be A Clubwoman" #

by Helen Cowles Le Cron

and Edith Wasson McElroy

[nonfiction]

(This title made me laugh.  The way I see it,  any woman who
belongs to at least one club IS a clubwoman.  Perhaps a

better title would have been, "The Clubwoman and Her

Club(s)"

"Donna Parker at Cherrydale"

"Donna Parker, Special Agent"

by Marcia Martin

[children's/young teen fiction]

(I loved these books when  I was

in my early teens.  Not great literature,

but still enjoyable.)

"Our Miss Boo" #
(In "Time For Miss Boo",
two books in one volume)
by Margaret Lee Runbeck
{carrying over into next week}
(openlibrary.org loan)
Thyra Ferre Bjorn mentions Margaret Lee Runbeck on
page 139 of "Mama's Way," which is why I wanted to
read her books.

This looks like a long list, but some of the books on it are "quick reads."

This Week's Fan Fiction

One Careless Moment

New chapter added.  

Throwback Thursday

Well, That's How I Heard It

(Originally posted on April 1, 2011)

The original, Italian version of "Volare" {proper title "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu"} recorded by Domenico Modugno, was one of my favorite songs when I was around five. I used to sing "Dipinto di Blu" as "The pink and the blue." That's what they call a mondegreen!
 Article on Mondegreens    

Wrong Again, Mr. President!

Click here for article.

Apparently Mr. Obama and I do not worship the same God!

Thanks to the Singer Sewing Machine Company

Now that I've joined The Betsy-Tacy Society, I'd like to share the following post from one of my old blogs.

I feel that, to use a cliche, many readers owe a great... make that a humongous... debt of gratitude to the Singer Sewing Machine Company. What if they hadn't transferred Patrick Kenney to their Mankato, Minnesota office? Then he probably would never have moved his large family into the house across from the home of Tom and Stella Hart and their family. And that would have meant that their children would not have met.

Just imagine if Maud Hart (Betsy) and "Bick" Kenney (Tacy) had never known each other.
There would have been no "Betsy-Tacy" books.
No "Betsy-Tacy" books??? To use another cliche, let's not go there. I, for one, cannot imagine my reading life without them. I read the books at least once every year and a half, dividing them into three categories:
1: Childhood:
"Betsy-Tacy"
"Betsy-Tacy and Tib"
"Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill"
"Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown"
{at the end of this book "the curtain goes up" on
the approaching high-school years.}

2: High School:
"Heaven to Betsy"
"Betsy in Spite of Herself"
[this book always makes me want to hear, again, "The Merry Widow Waltz", "La Boheme", and the then-popular song, "Dreaming"]
"Betsy Was a Junior"
"Betsy and Joe"

The Adult Years:
"Betsy and the Great World"
"Betsy's Wedding"
[And is there a more perfect, more satisfying ending to a series than the final chapter of "Betsy's Wedding"? It doesn't, as so many endings do, make me wish the author had taken the characters into even later years. Rather, it makes me look forward to the next time I will begin reading the books.]

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Update:  And, as it turns out, Maud Hart Lovelace felt the same way about the way "Betsy's Wedding" ends.
Click here and then scroll dowm

Well, you KNOW I love the Betsy-Tacy books!

I've just joined The Betsy-Tacy Society.  I decided to do so because:

1: As I said in the heading, I love the Betsy-Tacy books.

2: I've been wanting to join an established club or society for some time now. 

3: And yes, I wanted to be able to access the "Members Only" section.