My Most Reread (and my most favorite) Novels

[@mitzireadsandwrites]

Yay! I was so excited to see that you were sharing your favorites!!! I love 84 Charing Cross Road, too, but I've never seen the movie- need to find and watch that one. You started me on the Miss Read trail and I'm slowly collecting them so I can just keep reading. Right now, I'm reading Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher and I am loving it!! I have September, too, so I plan to read that one next.

[@Melanie220]

I just finished re-reading Coming Home for the umpteenth time about a week ago. Such an absorbing novel. I want to live in the Dower House at Nancherrow! LOL. And the film of 84 Charing Cross Rd is a must-see if you love the book. Definitely worth it, and I think it's pretty readily available at the usual online sources.

[@mitzireadsandwrites]

@@Melanie220 thanks- Coming Home is a can't stop reading book! I'm glad that it's a long one so I can keep it going for several days!!

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

You have found so many Miss Reads, I get jealous every time I see a book haul!

[@juliehughes1258]

Hiya, Gina. I 100% agree with @Melanie220 regarding the 84, Charing Cross Road movie. It is excellent. So I'm the opposite to you as I've seen the movie but haven't read the book. Never fear though. I recently bought 84, Charing Cross Road and the Duchess of Bloomsbury Street and I'm looking forward to reading these relatively short books soon. I love your vlogs and I'm subscribed.

[@marthacanady9441]

Been reading Miss Read for 40 years. Over and over. So comforting.

[@amberholland8910]

I also recently picked up a vintage copy of The Wind in the Willows because I enjoyed it as a child. I love your copy with the beautiful illustrations!

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thanks!

[@elizabethdoran7626]

I love your copy too❤

[@MyCozyLittleLibrary]

This was so nice. And your actual childhood Wind in the Willows copy, how precious!

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thank you 😍

[@daxjacob]

Absolutely inspiring and brilliant books! Outstanding video as always👍

[@katnissfire5605]

Hi Gina! Most reread books: Winter Solstice (Pilcher), Miss Read, multiple Agatha Christie, The Hobbit (Tolkien), Anne of Green Gables, The Chronicles of Narnia, Rebecca, and of course 84 Charing Cross Road (love the movie too).

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

So many of my favorites on your list!

[@katnissfire5605]

@GinaStanyerBooks Yes, Gina! I have other favorites as well, but I always tend to reread these books. They take me to nostalgic lane for some reason. 🙂

[@jamiedominy4552]

The Wind in the Willows is my comfort read. I keep a copy in my car. In fact, the Down to Sleep channel on You Tube has the absolute best reading of this book. It puts me to sleep many nights.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Omg I’ve never heard of that channel. I just listened and it’s wonderful! I am a terrible sleeper so maybe this will help me. Thanks for the tip.

[@jamiedominy4552]

@@GinaStanyerBooks It’s hands down the best reading of Wind in the Willows to me, although I do love the Derek Jacobi version. The Down to Sleep version is so calming, but also particularly good at the humor. The bootscraper scene is brilliant.

[@mediumjohnsilver]

My most reread novels are… _The Great Gatsby_ by F. Scott Fitzgerald; _The Time Machine_ by H.G. Wells; And an obscure choice: _7 Steps to Midnight,_ a 1993 thriller by Richard Matheson. It’s the story of a mathematician who has his identity stripped away and finds himself on a disorienting chase from his home in Arizona all the way to Europe, dodging assassination attempts, while also contemplating the question posed at the start by a random hitchhiker: “What is reality?”

[@Melanie220]

I have way too many favourite 're-reads!' LOL. But my Miss Reads and Rosamunde Pilchers are right at the very top of the list. As well, Jane Eyre, the Little House series, and a couple of 1950s-era teen romance series by Anne Emery that I loved when I was in my early teens and then years later found at library sales when my library was culling out old books in favour of newer ones. I couldn't believe my luck that I was able to buy the exact copies of favourite books I'd checked out so many times as a kid! 😯

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

How fun that you found all those library books! What a score!

[@AaronReadABook]

Persuasion was my first Austen but I didn't read any Austen till I joined booktube, so that is the greatest gift booktube has given me. I've also never read The Wind In The Willows so that is one I need to correct. Fellowship I think is my ultimate comfort read, I love the beginning. I am going to make a video about The Shell Seekers this weekend, my first Pilcher!

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

This comment feeds my soul Aaron! I have gotten so much from booktube too it amazes me.

[@LisaTheBookworm]

Congrats on 5,000 subscribers! 🎉 I love that you have so many wonderful memories attached to your favorite books. The books I most frequently come back to are usually comfort reads: The Chronicles of Narnia series, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, and anything by Agatha Christie.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thank you!

[@karenstewart8818]

I've read Coming Home to tatters, I've got all the Miss Read books, and adore the Cat Who books. I've read and listened on audio to the Potter books for nearly 20 years! My collection include the Little House books and the James Herriot books.

[@lynnkibbe2929]

I can't believe it! I just happened upon your channel and was so happy to hear you talking about miss read. I purchased a fairacre novel at a library book sale. After I read it I was hooked. Love those stories ❤️

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Oh yay!! I’m so glad you are here!! I love finding fellow Miss Read fans.

[@cindycarmichael9768]

Have you ever read R.F. Delderfield? The books were written in the early seventies. There is a (3) series, on the Swann family saga. Taking place in England in the late 1800's up to the early 1900's. There also a few more that he wrote. They are wonderful!

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I haven’t! Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll definitely check it out.

[@kathy5706]

he was one of my very favorite authors for many years! Mr Sermon, For My Own Amusement, Swann Family Saga, many others

[@kathy5706]

Also check out British author Marcia Willett. She wrote many books that can be read alone but have some overlapping characters. I think anyone who likes RF Delderfield would like her also

[@TheLadyk53]

Loved Delderfield's "To Serve Them all My Days", I have read it a couple of times and watched the mini series a few times more.

[@LauraRodriguez-Peace]

Thank you for sharing these great classics, Gina! I loved them all. 😊 (The novels that I have re-read the most over the years are: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" (Trilogy), by Tolkien, "Redwall" by Brain Jacques, "Harry Potter" (series), by Rowling, "Anne of Green Gables" by Montgomery, "The Walking Drum" by Louis L'Amour, "All Creatures Great and Small" by James Herriot, (and so many more...) I have also enjoyed re-reading several non-fiction faves, as well. It's so comforting to go back to the beautiful stories that make us feel so cozy, and/or bring back lovely memories as we enjoy them once again. Thanks, Gina! ☮🧡📚

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I agree, rereading brings me so much comfort and enjoyment.

[@kathy2539]

I also love Miss Read, I've read all of her Fairacre series, which I adore but I haven't read all of the Thrush Green novels, yet. I like the Rosamund Pilcher books, too. My most re-read books are Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonsong", "Dragonsinger" and "Dragondrums", I love all of her Dragons of Pern series. I would say Anne is my favourite author. When it goes to real easy comfort reads I turn to Enid Blyton, I've cherished her children's book series for years especially The Famous Five, The Adventure series and The Secret Series. Enid Blyton is that cozy, warm read for a cold day inside.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Oh yes, I love Enid Blyton too. I discovered her as an adult and it’s been such a treat.

[@philipstrumolo8057]

So sorry to hear about your cat. I just lost my 15 year old Wilkie. Best regards, Gerard Denza Author of the Edward Mendez, P. I. series

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thank you.

[@Shellyish]

“Mother, do you not know me at all.” Ha! I love that. ❤

[@janshands7049]

I love to re-read The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery as well as all the Anne books by the same author. Evening Class by Maeve Binchy, Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer as well as Book Lovers by Emily Henry. I love to find new authors and then read all their books. Miss Read books and Agatha Christie are two examples of that. I also re read David Copperfield, given to me by my father many years ago. I also love the Louise Penny books and Kristin Hannah books. I love mysteries as well but in a place where my reading is very selective. No stress please! So many books I put back on the shelf until a later time. Just found your channel. Looking forward to more videos. Thank you for doing this.❤

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thanks so much for the nice comment. I’m so glad you are here 😍

[@shelliclarke5563]

Congratulations on 5,000 subscribers! You are a joy to watch and have such a soothing voice ❤

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thank you so much!

[@linbourne8731]

Like another of your subscribers comments I don't tend to reread my books, although that is why I keep them. I have so many new ones to get through. This video has inspired me to perhaps go back to reread some of the favourite books from my childhood for example the 'Borrowers' series by Mary Norton, my number one favourite, Wind in The Willows, Secret Garden. I have however two Miss Read ones 'Winter in Thrush Green' and 'The Christmas Mouse' which I read ever Christmas 😊

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I love the Miss Read Christmas books! I reread them every year too. I also love No Holly For Miss Quinn.

[@linbourne8731]

@@GinaStanyerBooks oh yes, I don't own that one and had forgotten about it. 😊

[@kellymurphy6445]

Have you ever read Gene Stratton Porter books? They are so good! I reread hers, as well as Lucy Maud Montgomery books.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I haven't! But I really want to!

[@identitycat]

Thank you for sharing your cozy video about reading books. I subscribed right away. 😸🤗 My most reread novel is probably ‘The Master and Margarita’ by M. Bulgakov. It contains an amazing love story and a cat. What more could I need?

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thanks so much! I need to check out The Master and Margarita!

[@joyfulbookhaul]

Congratulations on all the new subscribers. I will try to keep my list of favorite rereads short. Greenwillow by B. J. Chute - comfort reading for decades A Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Thank you Rosamunde Pilcher The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett - I just love this Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace - my favorite of hers An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott - my favorite of hers A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer - my favorite of hers The Woodwife by Terri Windling - fantasy set in the AZ desert and TW is just a fascinating person, lots of insight. Miss Read, D. E. Stevenson, Angela Thirkell, Barbara Pym, L. M. Montgomery - any and all. I read a lot when I was young .

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

No need to keep the list short! I love hearing what people love! Emily of Deep Valley is a favorite of mine too.

[@QuirkyGirl10]

Omg, 84, Charing Cross Road is one of my most favorite books! It is truly for the book lover❤ I like Rosamunde Pilcher too and have read 2 of her books, with 2 more on my TBR pile. Thank you for introducing me to the Thrush Green series. I have gone ahead and added the books to my ever-growing TBR list😂

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I know, my TBR is ever growing too!

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

You have some great favourites. Congratulations on 5k subscribers! Here's to a great reading summer.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thank you!

[@fidelogos7098]

Jane Eyre was the first "classic" novel I ever read and I think I've read it five or six times since my high school days. Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Farenheit 451, 1984, Dune, Witches Abroad (Terry Pratchett), every book I own by Thurber and PG Wodehouse are the books I've read multiple times. There are others I'd like to read again, but with all the new books to read, who has time? I'd like to re-read the Game of Thrones series, LOTR, and any of the books I own by Terry Pratchett. Someone that I read a lot in my early adulthood was James Michener. I loved those books and the movies made from them. I need to dig through the boxes and see if I still have a copy of Chesapeake.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I know, there’s just not enough time to read, is there? You have a great list.

[@janshands7049]

@@fidelogos7098 I loved the James Michener books too. Possible re-reads there for me. Thanks.

[@ronlussier8570]

Ok this is my first time here and your first two favorites are my first two favorites as well! But The Wind in the Willows would be first for me. I also keep my first copy of the book since childhood.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I wish I had more of my childhood books. Sadly most of them were lost during a move. I’m so glad I have this one!

[@v1a1n1n1a1e]

The Fellowship of the Ring, check (I have the same copy!) The Wind in the Willows, check Jane Austen , check (Pride and Prejudice is my favorite) Harry Potter, check 84 Charing Cross Road, check The Cat Who series ❤, check I haven't read Agatha Christie, but love the shows. I've added Miss Read to my TBR list! It's great to find your channel.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

@@v1a1n1n1a1e Hiyee!! Thanks so much for being here. You clearly have great taste in books too 😄

[@laurac56]

Most reread: The Fellowship of the Ring (the other 2 also, but not as much), The Secret History (Tartt), The Winter Sea (Kearsley), numerous Miss Reads (some more than others), Persuasion, Wild Strawberries (Thirkell), The Magus (Fowler), Winter Solstice (Pilcher), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Shaffer), The Warden (Trollope), and all of the Chocolat series (Harris).

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Oooo I loved The Secret History and still own my copy. I should reread that one!! We have so many favorites in common! I haven't read Chocolat but I am adding it to my list!

[@laurac56]

@@GinaStanyerBooks This last time that I read The Secret History, I listened to the audiobook. The author reads it and it is very, very good.

[@acratone8300]

Donna Tartt is on my list of 10 greatest novelists of all time. For what it's worth. Most of the other's are old Victorians. 20th century: EM Forster. Tolkien.

[@elizabethdoran7626]

Also one of your favourites is Rosamond Pilchers novel September

[@938quilt]

yougot me i nto Miss Read - loved them! I read on kindle and just the thrush green - haven't read fair acre yet- been saving them!

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

@@938quilt I’m so glad to hear that!

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

I love Jane Austen and Agatha Christie too. (I am reading a Poirot book in honor of Alice, I only chatted in comments and I though she was a very sweet and kind young women I'm so sorry she passed away..) I have that edition of Persuasion, my issue with it is that it is so heavy, you wouldn't think so since it is a little book. I adore 84 Charing Cross Rd, I saw the movie the first with my parents and my brother. I didn't know there was a book till years later, I read it once a year. I read The Christmas Carol every year. And The Time Machine every year. I also love Phryne Fisher Murder Mysteries, (I saw the TV series first, the books are very different, deeper and more complex,) and I re-read the books all the time. That's it, thank you for your fun list.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I know, it is so so sad about Alice. I just can't believe it. I haven't watched the Phryne Fisher murder mysteries, but there was a fun (and silly) new one recently I watched that featured her niece Peregrine.

[@TheLadyk53]

Some of my most reread books are The Chronicles of Narnia, Winter Solstice (Rosamund Pilcher), The Poldark series and Mary Stewart's Merlin books (The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills and The Last Enchantment). Also The Secret Garden (Frances H. Burnett). Love these all so much.

[@starlasell5698]

❤📚❤️ I loved hearing about your favorites and the stories behind them.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thanks so much. 😍

[@vesch5083]

The Harry Potter audiobooks are amazing. I love them

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

So good! I did the Jim Dale ones, but I think Stephen Fry would be amazing too.

[@marjoriedybec3450]

I reread A Christmas Memory (Truman Capote short story) every December. Every other year I reread A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens-short story). I frequently reread Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte). Ive reread Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens,) Silas Marner (George Eliot,) Living Well is the Best Revenge (Calvin Thompkins, NF,) My Antonia (Willa Cather) and a few others. Im not a big rereader. I love Les Miserables but it is just too long to reread.

[@BigboyErnie]

I read Capote’s A Christmas Memory also every year. Just this week I reread another book but rereading is not something I do.

[@shelliclarke5563]

@marjoriedybec3450 I reread A Christmas Memory every December also! Do you also reread The Thanksgiving Visitor every November? I love both of those Truman Capote short stories and the movie adaptations 🎬🎄

[@BigboyErnie]

@@shelliclarke5563 yes I do reread The Thanksgiving Visitor. By now, Sook is part of my family! Last year I read everything written by or about Capote (except In Cold Blood which still haunts me from reading it when it was first published) and watched the available KZbin’s.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I read Jane Eyre for the first time this year, but I will definitely be rereading that one. I loved it!

[@marjoriedybec3450]

@@GinaStanyerBooks I reread it for like the 8th time last year. The whole St-John-Rivers section was like a new book to me. I love when a book delivers something new each time you read it.

[@JacquelineCaron]

congrats to you on 5K subscribers!! 🎉🎈

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thank you!! 😁

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

What a great idea! I just found September at my local thrift shop and bought it. I’ve never read Pilcher. For me it would be Jane Eyre, Nancy Drew, and poetry. ❤

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I read Jane Eyre for the first time this year and just loved it. Nancy Drew was such a favorite when I was little!

[@chelseabailey7215]

Hi Gina, so sorry to hear about your cat

[@punitavisvanathan]

Congratulations on 5k subscribers!!!🎉❤

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thank you so much 😀

[@sterlingreads547]

This was great Gina! Poor kitty 😔

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thanks Summer! I just got back from taking her to the vet again. :(

[@joyceredman2136]

I do not reread books as I have a whole bookcase of unread books to get to now that I have unpacked them in my move to another place. And I have stacked books by my bed to read the rest of this year (Brotherless Night, 4 Kate Mortons, Fresh Water for Flowers, Hungry Ghosts). I have a mix of history (The Alexiad, The Tulip, etc), historical fiction, nonfiction, mythology and classic children's fiction, classic fiction (Dickens, Hardy, Austen, etc), contemporary fiction (Lisa Scottoline, mysteries (disappointed that I don't have any Agatha Christie-the Queen of mysteries!), translated fiction or books set in Asia, Europe, Africa. I am glad that my move is over; now, I can enjoy reading my books again. Hooray!

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I know Joyce, I do too! And yet.... Your piles sound wonderful.

[@eileennielsen5165]

This was great Gina! Thought you would pick Winter Solstice for a Pilcher bk.. I have September and will wait til then to read it. Just started The Shell Seekers.🙂 ABSOLUTELY LOVE 84 Charring Cross Rd. Read it when I was 19? and still have that copy. Also have the monie!😊 My fave re-reads are: Little Women, Wuthering Heights, 84 Charring Cross Rd., The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society, and now Winter Solstice. YEAH! 5000!! Weren't you supposed to announce a winner of a give-a-way this past Sunday or did I enter an old contest binge watching??

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thank you! Sorry I didn’t have time to make a video on Sunday so I announced the winners on my community page.

[@books_and_bocadillos]

Congratulations 👏🏽🎉. I love your videos 🫶🏽

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thank you so much Mariandrea! ❤️💕

[@michaelmccarty]

I reread Rosamunde Pilcher’s Winter Solstice and Marcia Willett’s A Week in Winter each December. Some recent favorites that I look forward to rereading: The Enchanted April, The Secret Garden, and Heidi.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

All favorites of mine too!

[@shirleyjones954]

Love all your favourites also. However my most re reads are anything by Maeve Binchey. Good luck with the kitty and hope the issue is soon cleared up.

[@amy8458]

Hi Gina, I can sympathize with Josie. My Cockapoo Dinah is recovering from bladder stone removal surgery . When I finish Jane Austen's six books Persuasion is one I'll re read. The Fairacre series is on my TBR. I don't get along with Agatha Christie or Rosamond Pilcher. Instead I like authors who write in those styles. My favorite classic author right now is Elizabeth Goudge. I have two favorite low spice contemporary romance authors.Rae Ann Thayne and Susan Wiggs. For sweet historical romance you introduced me to Julie Klassen. The series that made me fall in love with historical and myth based fantasy was The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden. For classic fantasy I love Sir Terry Prattchet.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Unfortunately for Josie, they can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong. It’s been so awful seeing her in pain and not able to help her. We got antibiotics today so hopefully that will help. 😻

[@amy8458]

@@GinaStanyerBooksI have a cat too so understand. If it's a UTI the antibiotics will help.

[@paulfillingham2958]

In the UK the book is called ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Yep, I’ve got it in a UK paperback edition too. I thought it would be fun to read next time and see the differences.

[@cynthiafialka]

Random person here because your channel just came up for me. Sorry your kitty is having problems. Hope she gets better. (Cat lover here)

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Hiyee! Thanks for your concern 😍 We got her on antibiotics and she is doing better.

[@terrihoskinson]

What a coincidence, I just picked up that exact copy of September today at my local Goodwill for $2.59. So glad to hear it’s your favorite.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Oh yay! I hope you enjoy it!

[@sherylmorris9646]

Please list books!

[@acratone8300]

What an ego he had, LOL. The Queen and her Ladies-in-waiting Sat at the window and sewed. She cried, 'Look! Who's that HANDSOME man?' They answered, 'Mr Toad.'

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Lol, right? I love Toad.

[@Simpleandslowliving]

Read lord of the rings this year for the first time and it will be an anually thing. I started reading Agatha Christie last year and love it.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

So glad you loved Lord of the Rings and Agatha Christie too! It's always so much fun for me to find like minded people here :)

[@monaedoyle3631]

I have reread the Harry Potter books, the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, Mercy by Debra Anastasia

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Fun!

[@morethanaveragejoe8224]

I just now stumbled upon Ms. Gina's channel and she seems like a really fun person to sit down with and listen to her stories. Btw, I wonder if there are any tv show or movie adaptations of Miss Read's books?

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

@@morethanaveragejoe8224 thanks so much. I’ve never seen any adaptations, but wouldn’t that be great?

[@morethanaveragejoe8224]

@@GinaStanyerBooks Yes!

[@kamicastillo1451]

❤❤❤

[@theresas709]

Our cat had that problem and they finally did a scan and found a tumor in her bladder.

[@Mrs.Currie]

Thank you for the Charing Cross Road recommendation... I will try that one. Have you heard of Dropseed by Nettie Magnan? I've just finished reading it, and I feel like I'll want to read it again one day because it was beautifully written...so that's my recommendation. Thanks for the video 💕

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[@Logoslover]

Miss Read is this mystery? My favorite reread novels are Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass To Kill a Mockingbird Pride and Prejudice One Hundred Years of Solitude-Marquez

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

No, not mysteries. Miss Read wrote a series of cozy books about village life in England.

[@gardenplots283]

I want to see the copy of Persuasion you were going to share but couldn't find.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

It’s the vintage pantheon edition. So cute! It’s orange but I always forget the spine is black.

[@booksimnotreading]

But, Gina, how many times have you read these books? 😃

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I have no idea! Argh!!

[@sewnancie]

Please share the story behind the Frances book by Russel Hoban (I can't see the actual title) that is so displayed prominantly on your bookshelf. I read these books to my children when they were young, and my grandkids have enjoyed them as well.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Isn't it wonderful? It's actually a 45 - record of the book A Bargain for Francis. A dear friend of mine bought it for me.

[@wildmeadows8495]

Bargain for Francis taught my daughter it’s okay to be wily. 😉

[@TheLadyk53]

Bread and Jam for Francis...used to read that one a lot to my students. Great memories!

[@StephaniePatterson-jb5it]

And to think that Mel Brooks produced the movie “84 Charing Cross Road”

[@shelliclarke5563]

And that his wife, Anne Bancroft, starred in it!❤

[@LindyS1830]

Haven’t seen the movie but I’ve read the book and loved it.

[@StephaniePatterson-jb5it]

@@shelliclarke5563 I’m sure she wanted to do and he bought the rights. When I saw this in the theater, there were a few mild laughs when his name appeared. You know they were thinking “From the man who brought you ‘Blazing Saddles.’”

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I didn't know that! Funny!

[@elizabethdoran7626]

Look at the cover of your harry potter book you said you had it with you on September 11th and look at the cover Sorcerers Stone = September and hes flying through the two columns, that are 1 1

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Interesting!

[@booklover6963]

Did you ever do the Jane Austen drawing ??

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

I did, and I posted the winners on my community tab.

[@booklover6963]

@@GinaStanyerBooks I saw it after I posted.... so sad I never win .