There are some books that are just simply comforting. Miss Read's books are that category- books that I would like to have about me to read when I am old and retired.
Miss Read was a teacher and she writes about village life in years just after the World War II. There is not much of a plot and yet each book is filled with stories- stories that are simple and straight without metaphors and other embroidery.
I was introduced to these books either at the Charlottesville Library or Denver Library and they have been my constant companions- comfortable and cozy reads.
So I was very happy to find Miss Read book at the Delhi book fair. And of course, I started to read it immediately. I read through the lunch, on the metro, and back at home. Of course, I finished it before the day ended. For once, the kdrama was put on the back burner!
As I said earlier, it is a book about nothing spectacular. Just a year in the life of villagers. These are old friends- Dottie Harmer and her animals and dreadful recipes, the vicar and his wife, the doctor's wife, and oh, a new housing for the elderly has come up in Thrush Green. There is, of course, the primary school. Just an ordinary village and ordinary people. And their lives.
This is one book that I will keep in my collection to dip into again and again.
