While sorting my bookshelves with the goal of creating a bookcase dedicated to my beloved romance novels I found some old favourites. It’s one of the things I love about books, they carry so many memories. Not only of the characters but the place you purchased it, when and where you first read it and how that book changed you.
Two books I found particularly brought me back to the day I brought them. Back in 2014 I was spending a lovely shopping day in town and I came across a Mills and Boon stand in Target. I hadn’t read Mills and Boon since high school and had certainly never purchased a brand new one, always having gotten them in second hand bundles from the local charity shop. So I purchased two that, as it turned out, would change my reading habits from then on. These two were Scandal at Greystone Manor by Mary Nichols and The Major’s Guarded Heart by Isabelle Goddard.
That day I brought myself a cup of tea and sat in the memorial gardens amoung the smell of roses and the sounds of birds and sipped tea while starting Greystone Manor. I became so engaged my tea went cold and I spent more of the trip reading than shopping.
It prompted me to get back to reading. I reread Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre and fell in love with classic novels, regency romances and just reading for the pure enjoyment of it in a way I hadn’t since my early teens.
Delightfully these two books are still available as ebooks and I certainly recommend them.
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A Charming Read 