#Barbara Davis

[theglitterdome]

Bette Davis and her younger sister Barbara - 1921

[bookwormbeat]

Women aren’t usually consulted on wars. We send our husbands and brothers and sweethearts to do the dying, hold the pieces together while they’re gone, then pick up what’s left when they come home—if they come home—but we’re seldom asked what we think.

The Echo of Old Books, Barbara Davis

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May JOMP Day 19 - Newest Book

The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis

[amoodypeach]

“You liked things mapped out, predictable, safe. But that’s not the nature of who we are. Life, particularly for women like us, doesn’t come with a road map. Nor do the people in our lives. Even as a child, this seemed to confound you. You needed to be able to put people in neat little boxes, to label them as friend or foe, safe or unsafe. Because then you’d know what to expect, and how to protect yourself. But with [your mother] that didn’t work. She was your mother, and she wasn’t, living under the same roof, but absent in all the ways that matter to a little girl.”

Barbara Davis, from The Last of the Moon Girls

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Linda and Barbara Davis at the Carousel Ball in 1983. Photo by Tom Masamori.

[sagewraith]

But there was sadness, too, in the spaces between, woven through the ellipses, the desolation of a question unanswered.

The Echo of Old Books, Barbara Davis

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Title: The Last of the Moon Girls | Author: Barbara Davis | Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (2020)

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Geena Davis posing with a bug for a promotional shoot of "Beetlejuice", featured in Prevue magazine, 1988 ♡

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If you are a book lover, if you’ve ever been in love, if you’ve ever had your heart broken, you must read The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis.

Through college, through my business career, through my heartbreaks and into my later years, books have always been there for me.

Barbara Davis uses book-care language and the mystery of forgotten books to unfold two beautiful love stories set decades apart. Ashlyn Greer sells rare books out of her smalltown New England bookstore. In the back of her store, she binds new books and carefully restores old ones. She also has the rare gift of psychometry. When she touches an old book, she can feel the echoes of the books’…

[barbh]

The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis [REVIEW]

SYNOPSIS An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls. Soline Roussel is well-schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It’s said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is…

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Books I've Read in 2024

Number 4

The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis

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[ Know, then, this veil is a type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with my familiar friends.

No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must separate me from the world: ... ] — The Minister's Black Veil

Senso (1954) Inglourious Basterds (2009) Double Indemnity (1944) Anna Karenina (2012) Moulin Rouge! (2001) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Tess (1979) Ludwig (1973) Now, Voyager (1942) Chinatown (1974)

[wherekizzialives]

August Reads

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I ran up against the limitations of my body this August and so the months reviews are a little late (although I’ve back dated the post so it is in the correct order on my blog) and I didn’t read anywhere near as much as I did in July because I have been trying to properly rest when I can rather than “rest” by crocheting and reading at the same time. Of the six,…

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Book Review: The Echo of old books by Barbara Davis

“The Echo of Old Books” Kindle Barbara_Davis”My rating: 5 of 5 stars Sabotage I wondered with the book what was missing with the two sides assuming the other was wrong (jealous sister). But worse he never knew he was a father either. A great look at the world before World War 2 and after.View all my reviews Amazon A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our…

[jjspina]

Books Read and Reviewed in April 2023!

Here it is already the end of another month. Where does the time go? I have been busy as usual reading some wonderful books for the month of April of 2023. Here are the 9 books I read and reviewed for February. I might have read even more if I didn’t have a few WIP. But I always seemed to have a WIP! That fact never stops me! I hope you enjoy reading these reviews. I love sharing my eclectic…