[Magdalen] favorite book(s) from 2024?

[Marilyn Cepeda]

I read and enjoyed them as well!

Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda


On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 at 11:50, Juli Tarsney <juli at tarsney.net> wrote:
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> > It's good to hear from all of you, some of whom I do see on Facebook. I
> > have such good memories of St Sam's and then Magdalen, and I do value my
> > abiding connection with the Anglican world, as embodied by each of you
> ...
> >
> > I'll chime in here on the books question -- a more straightforward
> > assignment than the "update" one :-)
> >
> > After a look at Goodreads: My very favorites included two novels by David
> > Nicholls (One Day and Us) and, much earlier in the year and on the
> > non-fiction front, Liz Cheney's memoir (audio version -- highly
> > recommended). On the Anglican theme, I read Glittering Images by Susan
> > Howatch ... I had been assuming this was a reread, but it didn't feel at
> > all familiar to me, so I think the book I remember reading years ago was
> > actually a later title in the series. At any rate, I'd kind of like to
> read
> > the whole series, but since then I've been sidetracked ... the story of
> my
> > reading life.
>
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> I think I've read all the Starbridge novels - probably not in the correct
> chronological order, but  I can't check now. I hope they're in one of the
> boxes in our back shed (I couldn't bear to throw them out !) I enjoyed them
> all. I often wonder what my mother-in-law (wife of a sometime CofE Vicar
> and postgrad.student of JRR Tolkein, brought up Unitarian) would have made
> of them, but she died before they started to come out.
>
> Lesley de Voil
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