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Thursday, October 29, 2020

Jacqueline Winspear's books

Donna put an article about Jacqueline Winspear on Facebook, saying, "Bonnie, is this your long-lost sister?  She sounds like your identical twin."  I responded, "Ha!  I even wore my hair in pigtails like that first picture of Jacqueline Winspear.  I'll take her as my twin any day."  She's holding a brand-new copy of her autobiography This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir in this photo.  Click this link to read about the book, and click here to read an excerpt.

On the first day of January this year, I posted a list of her books I had intended to read.  This year has not been at all what I expected.  I read the first three of the series, but the pandemic kind of threw my year out of kilter.  Book number 16 (The Consequences of Fear) will be added to the Maisie Dobbs' series of mysteries on March 23, 2021.  Here's the list, illustrated at the top by Winspear's 2019 journal What Would Maisie Do? Inspiration from the Pages of Maisie Dobbs.

What Would Maisie Do? : Inspiration from the Pages of Maisie Dobbs ~ by Jacqueline Winspear, 2019, illustrated journal
  1. Maisie Dobbs, 2003
  2. Birds of a Feather, 2004
  3. Pardonable Lies, 2005
  4. Messenger of Truth, 2006
  5. An Incomplete Revenge, 2008
  6. Among the Mad, 2009
  7. The Mapping of Love and Death, 2010
  8. A Lesson in Secrets, 2011
  9. Elegy for Eddie, 2012
  10. Leaving Everything Most Loved, 2013
  11. A Dangerous Place, 2015
  12. Journey to Munich, 2017
  13. In This Grave Hour, 2018
  14. To Die But Once, 2018
  15. The American Agent, 2019
  16. The Consequences of Fear, 2021
I had planned to read all these books early in the year, but this year's pandemic has thrown everything out of kilter, hasn't it?  My whole year seems "off."  But it isn't too late to read them now, with two months left in 2020.  I have books #4 and #5 on the table beside me right now.  But first, I think I'll read the journal itself, as I had originally planned.

Phrase of the Day
out of kilter / noun: kilter /= out of harmony or balance.  Example:  "Daylight savings time changes throw everybody's body clocks out of kilter."  (Yes, that change is coming up at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday.  Move your clocks back one hour and sleep longer.)
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3 comments:

  1. Helen's Book BlogSaturday, October 31, 2020 12:21:00 AM

    I haven't read a Winspear book in quite a while, but I've enjoyed the three or four that I've read. It would be nice to read one more before the end of 2020.

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  2. Bonnie JacobsSaturday, October 31, 2020 10:28:00 AM

    I'm about to start on the fourth book in the series, so you and I have read about the same number of her books. But first, I'm about halfway through her journal What Would Maisie Do? : Inspiration from the Pages of Maisie Dobbs, which is only 176 pages long. I read the first book at the end of last year, and the next two early this year before the pandemic lockdown began.

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  3. ElisabethSunday, November 01, 2020 11:45:00 AM

    I LOVE this series. I am up to Book 14, and since I don’t want to get to the end, have been trying to space them out. So glad Winspear is still writing about Maisie.

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