Author: Author Cherith Boardman
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Meet some Moose-es
Good morrow, fair readers! How are you this fine February morning? All is white outside my windows, and it didn’t even reach 20 today – quite the rarity in the land of iced tea and y’all. February is the book birthday of Mistaken Premise – and my anniversary on the blog. (Thank you, Ms Regina!)…
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Pride & Perpetual Variations
Happy year of our Lord 2025 to you, my dear readers! (For reasons quite unknown to me, his devoted mother, my youngest son is fond of concluding whatever date with “the year of our Lord”. Teenagers… don’t ya’ love ‘em?) In but four short days, the anniversary of the likely most beloved of our most…
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Have Yourself a Madeiran (Not-so-little) Christmas
Good morrow, dear readers. I hope everyone had a wonderful day with friends and family, no matter what day you might celebrate. As an American, another Christmas has passed for the Boardman clan. My dear granddaughter (and my only grandchild) has a fascination with Nativity scenes this year, reminding me of when I wish to…
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Total Want for Portugal
Good tomorrow, dear readers. During the recent JAFF Reader/Writer Get-Together, my frequent refrain was, “I am a nerd, so I researched that.” My husband has decided that, in my case, nerd is an anagram for: Non-native English Regency Dispensary. I resemble this remark! Many of bits of Regency trivia were added to my repertoire when…
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And So It Begins…
Happy November, dear readers. And a very Happy Birthday to Second Son! Yes, readers, that is correct: my first book baby is seven years old today. <Sigh> It seems only yesterday that I finally found the ultimate outlet for all my nerdish ways; for, eleven years ago next week, I sat down (Wow! I could…
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The Hand of Fate: All Thumbs or Not?
Good morrow, dear readers. I hope that October is treating you well. As I’ve been reading lately – a Definite benefit to months of bedrest – I’ve been pondering coincidences. Amongst Janeites, some claim there is an inordinate number of them in Pride & Prejudice: Mr Collins’ connexion to Darcy through Lady Catherine de Bourgh;…
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Invalids in Georgian England
Good morrow, fair readers! Who else is counting down the days until the start of autumn? Cooler temperatures; azure skies; changing leaves… sigh! I am aware such anticipation is limited to those Janeites who live in the Northern Hemisphere, so, my dear Southern Hemisphere readers, are you eagerly awaiting spring’s glorious transformation upon the landscape?…
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A Warren of Words
Good morrow, fair readers! As your friendly neighbourhood nerd continues my convalescence, I have been reading and listening to the Jane Austen Mysteries by Stephanie Barron. I tried to read these early in my JAFF journey (a decade before Second Son danced across my brain). As a devourer of mysteries, I thought, Jane Austen and…
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It’s a Grand Old Flag
Good morrow, fair readers, and happy Flag Day to my fellow Americans. To my readers from other parts of the globe, worry not, for today is not an official holiday. In my five decades experience, Flag Day has gone from an excuse for early summer sales – as stores enticed my parents to fork over…
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Lying About is a Bummer
Good morrow, fair readers. I wish everyone a pleasant spring – or autumn for our fellow Janeites in the southern hemisphere. It’s not every day I commiserate with my characters… well, at least since leaving the Amish community a decade and a half ago. Occasionally, when I play adult dress up in my Regency gowns,…