Here are the books I finished for my theme, Gentle Spectrums 2018!
I am excited about brainstorming a lot of great new topics and beneficial ways to expand the ones we are reprising. This logo is not my photograph, like the gorgeous Manitoba marsh vista last year but I hope everyone derives peace and happy thoughts from its beauty. I really like it.
My selections go by my moods and I constantly score fresh book bargains, which is important when one reads nearly all physical literature. However I normally read the ones I list for myself soon. Goodness knows we are blessed with good stock.
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(01) LIMITLESS PALETTE
Also: colourful, colour, bright, light, iridescent, iridescence, dark, shade, hue, spectrum, rainbow, prism.
Bluegate Fields” Anne Perry 1984
“The Hot Pink Farmhouse” David Handler 2002
“The Shimmering Stones Of Winter’s Light” Constance Walker 1991
“In A Dark, Dark Wood” Ruth Ware 2015
“When Grandma And Grandpa Rode The White Pass Train” Bernd & Susan Richter 1988
“Brainy Baby Shapes And Colours” Edith Reynolds & Rose Audette 2004
“Three Barnyard Tales: The Little Red Hen / The Ugly Duckling / Chicken Little” Marilyn Helmer & Laura Watson 2002
“The Tale Of Ginger And Pickles” Beatrix Potter 1909
(9) “Grover’s Little Red Riding Hood” Norman Stiles & Joe Mathieu 1976
(02) TREASURE OR HIGH ADVENTURE
“The Secret Treasure Of Oak Island” D’Arcy O’Connor 2004
“The Mystery Of The Lost Lemon Mine” Ron Stewart 1993
“The Car Book” William Dugan 1968
“The Mystery Of Cabin Island” Leslie McFarlane 1929
“The Mounties: Tales Of Adventure And Danger From The Early Days” Elle Andra-Warner 2004
“Scuffy The Tugboat” Tibor Gergely & Gertrude Crampton 1972 (1946)
“The Lion In The Valley” Elizabeth Peters 1986
“Barometer Rising” Hugh MacLennan 1941
“Harry Potter: The Prequel” Joanne K. Rowling 2008
(10) “Uncle Robert’s Secret” Wylly Folk St. John 1972
(03) TOYS OR HOBBIES
One could call nearly anything a toy or hobby, so let’s make these well-established toys and hobbies.
“Little Audrey And The Moon Lady” Harvey Cartoon Studios 1960
“The Little Bookstore Of Big Stone Gap” Wendy Welch 2012
“Haunted” Ophelia Julien 2012
“A Medium For Murder” Mignon Warner 1976
“Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics” Chris Grabenstein 2016
“Gypsy’s Fortune” Caroline Stellings 2014
“The Strangers On Montagu Street” Karen White 2011
“The House Of Broken Dolls” Dorothy Daniels 1972
“The Tale Of Two Bad Mice” Sarah Albee & Maggie Swanson 2003
“Death By Scrabble” Charlie Fish 2006
(11) “Book Scavenger” Jennifer Chambliss Bertram 2015
(04) HEALTHFULNESS
Happy feelings, drink, food, exercise, medicine, energy: you decide!
“Cookie Monster And The Cookie Tree” David Korr & Joe Mathieu 1977
“People In Your Neighbourhood” Jeffrey Moss & Leon Jason 1977
“The Sea For Breakfast” Lillian Beckwith 1961
“Mistress Of Mellyn” Victoria Holt 1960
“Murder On Astor Place” Victoria Thompson 1999
“Murder Will Travel” Emily Toll 2002
“Adventures Of A Psychic” Sylvia Browne & Antoinette May 1990
(8) “The Jesus Mystery (Of Lost Years And Unknown Travels)” Janet Bock 1980
(05) ANIMALS
I always include birds, fish, and insects. I love them all.
“Little Lost Lamb” Margaret Wise Brown & Leonard Weisgard 1945
“Great Cat Stories: Inspirational Tales About Exceptional Cats” Roxanne Willems Snopek 2004
“Catnap” Carole Nelson Douglas 1992
“The Old Fox Deceiv’d” Martha Grimes 1982
“Farm Animals (A Very First Picture Book)” Nicola Tuxworth 1996
“Over In The Meadow (A Musical Story / Play)” Pamela Conn Beall & Susan Hagen Nipp 1987
“How Do Dinosaurs Count To Ten?” Jane Yolen & Mark Teague 2004
“Arthur’s Hallowe’en” Marc Brown 1982
“Clifford’s Puppy Fun” Norman Bridwell 2001
“The Whispering Rabbit” Margaret Wise Brown & Cyndy Szekeres 1948
“Derby Downs: The Value Of Respect” Stephen Cosgrove & Wendy Edelson 1988
“Winnie The Pooh, Friendship Day” Nancy Parent & Philippe Harchy 2000
(13) “The Owl And The Pussycat” Ron Berg & Edward Lear 1984
(06) NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
“The Murder Stone” Louise Penny 2008
“Surfacing” Margaret Atwood 1972
“The Silence” Sarah Rayne 2013
“Street Of Five Moons” Elizabeth Peters 1978
“The Brutal Telling” Louise Penny 2009
“Evans Above” Rhys Bowen 1997
“A Great Deliverance” Elizabeth George 1988
“Ghost Hotel” Larry Weinberg 1994
“Nobody Likes Trina” Phyllis A. Whitney 1972
“Hurry, Santa!” Julie Sykes & Tim Warnes 1998
(11) “Penny Visits Oak Hammock Marsh” Carol & Kristin Szuminsky & Jack Brown 2008
(07) THE ARTS
“The Tin Flute” Gabrielle Roy 1945
“Driftwood And Other Poems” P.J. Peters 1978
“The Bells Of Freedom” Dorothy Gilman 1963
“The Bears Of Broadway” Cancer Care Manitoba 2005
(5) “The Garden Of Friendship” Thomas Kinkade 2000
(08) FASHION & FURNISHINGS
We needn’t stop at sewing and knitting. We can expand to curtains, doilies, linen, and quilts!
“My Flight Bag Book” Kathleen N. Daly & Yoshi Miyake 1977
“The Body Farm” Patricia Cornwell 1994
“The Romper Room Doo Bee Book Of Manners” Nancy Claster & Art Seiden 1956
“What Was I Scared Of?” Theodor Seuss Geisel 1961
(5) “Doors In The Air” David Weale & Pierre Pratt 2012
(09) CANADIAN
“Manitoba Stories” Joan Parr 1981
“Dead And Buried” Howard Engel 1990
“The Fire-Dwellers” Margaret Laurence 1969
“The Haunting Of Government House” Judith Silverthorne 2011
“Death At Buckingham Palace” C.C. Benison 1996
“A Killing Spring” Gail Bowen 1996
“Great Canadian Romances (Love, Scandal, And Passion)” Barbara Smith 2005
“Extreme Canadian Weather” Joan Dixon 2005
“Mysterious Brockville” Nancy Wickwire Fraser 2000
“Franklin’s Hallowe’en” Paulette Bourgeois & Brenda Clark 1996
“Franklin’s Neighbourhood” Paulette Bourgeois & Brenda Clark 1999
“10 Drowsy Dinosaurs” Wendy Frood Auger & Les Drew 2010
(13) “Creatures Of The Night” Pat Hancock & Mark Thurman 1992
(10) HISTORY
“Sense And Sensibility” Jane Austen 1811
“Murphy’s Law” Rhys Bowen 2001
“Ghost Abbey” Robert Westall 1988
“Arrow Book Of Ghost Stories” Nora Kramer & George Wilde 1960
“The Late Mrs. Fonsell” Velda Johnston 1972
“One Corpse Too Many” Ellis Peters 1979
“Hippity Dog And The Groover’s Fling” Andrew Knowles & Gordon Stowell 1979
“More Channel Chuckles” Bill Keane 1971
“The Other Side Of Midnight” Simone St. James 2015
“The Laughing Ghost” Dorothy Eden 1943
(11) “Once Upon A Tomb: Stories From Canadian Graveyards” Nancy Millar 1997
(11) THIRD TIME CHARM?
Anything to do with three. Third visits with authors. After a third book, do you find that authors plateau, or grow better?
“Poirot Investigates” Agatha Christie 1924
“His Banner Over Me” Jean Little 1995
(3) “Something Wicked” Carolyn G. Hart 1988
RIEDEL FASCINATION 