Barbara Sambell

@StevenIsserlis He wrote some of the most glorious songs in the French repertoire.

Beloved Gabriel Fauré b otd 1845! What a composer, what a spirit. Like Beethoven, as his body grew weaker and his deafness more complete, he created a musical world unlike any other - filled with spiritual radiance, sensuous beauty, inner strength and profound joy. A true genius.

@EmmaRSotomayor Good choice!

Summer approaches and, though I would like to read War and Peace again, that seems to be more a winter read, so I supposed I'll settle on Anne of Green Gables.

@paul_jkrause Too hard!!! The Pallisers is the series I re-read most often, and Phineas Finn is my favourite Trollope character.

What is your favorite book by Anthony Trollope?

@ScottMcCreaWest @d4doome Heyer is seriously underrated! She’s a fine stylist, her research is impeccable, she creates memorable characters, and can be devastatingly witty. What’s not to like?!

This is excellent. If you're interested in Pop Fiction, definitely give @d4doome a follow.

@MostlyPrint A fine writer. Her autobiographical One Pair of Hands and One Pair of Feet are particular favourites.

“I lived by the pen, and so I must eventually stop looking and listening and go home and shut myself away and make a book of it.” US lecture circuit “So wunnerful” - An Open Book, 1978 autobiog of Monica Dickens, grt granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Writing until death in 1992.

@SueBursztynski So sorry Sue.

This is the first Mother’s Day my Mum has been gone. 😢

@RichardBratby Bernard Herrmann.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

@bcbnyc1 Lucky you! It is a sublime work.

What's your favorite Tchaikovsky opera? Mine is Eugene Onegin, currently enjoying a wonderful run at the Met! I went a couple of nights ago and have to go again!

@SueBursztynski It’s sublime!

@notaveneering Enjoy!

Eagerly awaited book post from lovely Paperback Books.

@merewalton Deliverance

Jacob's Ladder

@MostlyPrint Every page a laugh out loud!

"Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once" #JuxtapositionduJour #History Who remembers?

@dewdroplin You won’t ever be disappointed!

I think an obsession with Charles Dickens might be beginning for me…

@danbarker No words!

A friend mentioned he's reading '84 Charing Cross Road' at the moment, the story of two letter writers forming a deep bond, one working in a bookshop at the address. So I looked to see what's at the address just now...

@93vintagejones Also, lovely china!

Bank holiday haul. £16.

@larissaphillip I haven’t read this, but urge you to read The Fortnight in September and Greengates by Sherriff; so good!

Reading this because a random person on Substack was raving about it. Every now and then you read a book that reminds you of what reading was like when you were a kid and there was an endless array of amazing YA books. You’d pick one up and be immediately drawn into it. Who ARE these people? What is their deal? Their conflict was immediately apparent and compelling. That’s what this one feels like, almost like Roald Dahl for adults. I also (slight spoiler) had that disconcerting feeling of randomly looking at the copyright page after I was a few chapters in and discovering it was written in 1939! I’d thought it was contemporary! Recommend!

@QcWynter To enhance your experience, brew loose leaf tea and drink from a beautiful china cup and saucer. 😋

I drink tea for the ritual but this morning I finally read brewing instructions on bottom of a packet of Yorkshire Tea. Brew 4 mins 30 secs. I usually leave bag in water for 30, 40 secs. I followed instructions, 40 yrs after I made my first cup. Banging. Never too late to learn.

@paul_jkrause Persuasion for me.

Emma is the best Jane Austen novel.

@Gazrj01 @JamesMelville In my form 2 class, Sister Michael strapped all 74 of us for some imagined misbehaviour!

@JamesMelville Dear heavens, cold winter mornings and six cuts on the hands with a split cane. ffs

Do you remember the belt, tawse, cane or ruler being used for corporal punishment during your time at school?

@FrankTracy Another favourite!

@notaveneering Yes, possibly the second thing I saw her in if it wasn’t The Court Jester.

The first thing I ever saw either Glynis Johns or Hermione Baddeley in was Mary Poppins (USA 1964). Since I’m on a YT classic Brit movie binge and one or the other seems to be in every UK film ever made, surprising they’d only worked together once before (Dear Mr. Prohack, (1949)