@jo

I recently bought some old issues of Lighthouse Digest. A few years ago I had also purchased a few vintage back issues of Wildbird magazine from about thirty years ago. It was a beautiful birding magazine. It is a rather sad thing that some physical magazines are going out of business. Somehow a projection of a magazine online is not so attractive to me as the actual physical copies (especially with the pictures). Lighthouse Digest had an electronic version, but I preferred the paper copies. You can’t replace the real thing.

There are some very nice lighthouse books too. I recently bought American Lighthouses: A Pictorial History by Jill Caravan. Some of the others include Lighthouses of the Great Lakes by Todd R. Berger and Legendary Lighthouses (volumes one and two), by John Grant and Ray Jones, which is based on the PBS television series. The books about lighthouses in Michigan include Lighthouses of Michigan by John Penrod.  These books are all beautifully illustrated. They are mainly about American lighthouses.  There is also Lighthouses of the World by Lisa Purcell. I am sure that there are more fine books about the lighthouses of other countries.

@snowangel  I’m SO excited since I missed the first opportunity of subscribing at all. I read the first three thinking it was a trilogy. It’s wonderful timing too since I was just thinking I was due for a reread.  

First off, I got my copy of Chapter 16 of The Silent Bells this weekend! I'm not sure whether I'm shocked or just quietly stunned that there is actually a new chapter. Has everyone else's arrived?

@SnowAngel, it's always disappointing when the ending of a book series goes so far astray. Did you decide to continue the reread or just call it quits? And were these books you owned or got from the library?

Sorry to hear you won't be receiving any more copies of Lighthouse Digest, @Narnian78. I hope you can enjoy rereading the 20+ years' worth of magazines, though!

@Jo, your reads always sound so intriguing! Has anything stood out particularly in your rereads of classic children's stories?

I'm glad you got to join in now with the subscription, @Lady-Merian! You are not the only one who read it thinking it was a trilogy, though I actually had the opposite problem - thought it was a quintet for some reason, though I don't know why. I hope you enjoy your reread.

I am currently reading my first G. A. Henty book: The Cat of Bubastes. I'm only a few chapters in but while I'm appreciating the historical notes, I'm not really a fan of the style and the characters seem way too formal (or something - not sure I've quite put my finger on it yet). I'm wondering if I would've enjoyed it more if I first read his books when I was younger? Irregardless, I'm going to keep pushing for now and see how it goes.
I also recently read A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett for the first time, which I enjoyed pretty well overall. Like Heidi, I'd seen one or maybe two adaptations when I was quite a bit younger, so I was a bit surprised at how much I knew of the story and how faithfully the adaptations had followed the plot.

@valiantarcher 

I wonder if anyone here remembers this 1986 adaptation of A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, who also wrote The Secret Garden:

https://youtu.be/PX4dhw1fKo4?si=GK93eYjIjyrTD0g1

It is quite good (especially the acting).   Besides the original books of these stories there also is an audio drama from Focus on the Family based on The Secret Garden. It is just as good as the Narnia radio dramas. 🙂

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@snowangel  I’m SO excited since I missed the first opportunity of subscribing at all. I read the first three thinking it was a trilogy. It’s wonderful timing too since I was just thinking I was due for a reread.  

I was planning a reread too, but then I bought a set of westerns. It's still on my list for soonish reading.

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First off, I got my copy of Chapter 16 of The Silent Bells this weekend! I'm not sure whether I'm shocked or just quietly stunned that there is actually a new chapter. Has everyone else's arrived?

@SnowAngel, it's always disappointing when the ending of a book series goes so far astray. Did you decide to continue the reread or just call it quits? And were these books you owned or got from the library?

Hooray! Mine came today, I sent my sister to check the mailbox as soon as I saw your post. And I also finally got my missing chapter of The Silent Bells the end of April, so glad that after three and half years my set is currently complete.

I did power through the final two books about Cheney and Shiloh. They're my books, purchased from a bookstore on a trip to visit my grandma over 15 years ago and because of that I won't get rid of them. Going to that bookstore was the highlight of visiting my dad's family as a kid especially in the summer. The whole family loved going to the bookstore, I don't think we ever left there with less than a whole book box full of books. That bookstore was everything a used bookstore should be, shelves piled high to the ceiling, stacks of books on the floor and in every nook and cranny with the smell of old books, and lowlight in the corners. Shopping there was like going on a treasure hunt. I think it was probably worth reading them just to remember all the fun my family had book shopping together.  

I've been reading through my recently acquired westerns all written by Luke Short, I just started the third of the four last night. So far I've read Paper Sheriff and Bold Rider, will be keeping Bold Rider. I'm reading Brand of Empire and have King Colt in my stack to read.