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Title: Counting My Chickens . . .: And Other Home Thoughts by Deborah Devonshire, Sophia Topley, Susan Hill ISBN: 0-374-13029-9 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful read
Comment: This book is homey and comforting. I loved her piece on being
discovered talking to yourself! There is so much that is so wise,
human and to the point. Maybe the negative reviewers are too young to appreciate the subtle joy of this book. It certainly is one volume that I will reread from time to time and keep for the guest room. Anyone who is old enough to remember civility in daily life, service in shops and neither voice mail nor cell phones impinging on your daily life will really enjoy this COUNTING MY CHICKENS.
Rating: 5
Summary: Misunderstood by Americans?
Comment: I enjoyed this book immensely. Addressing some of the negative reviews that have appeared below, I feel that the Duchess of Devonshire would be the first to say that she doesn't expect to be placed in the pantheon of Mitford writers with Nancy and Decca. So much of Nancy's charm is period charm after all, and Decca appeals to readers because she is fearless, outspoken and a rebel.
"Counting My Chickens" is great fun to read, and just because one was personally unacquainted with Harold Macmillan or any of the other people thoughtfully mentioned in footnotes is little reason to judge the book itself as 'insipid' and 'boring', adjectives that could so well describe life in a world dominated by the delights of Macdonalds and Coca Cola, and restricted by the application of just four adjectives - cool, great, nice and neat - to every possible situation.
I, like another reviewer, delighted in the Duchess' use of mitfordesque descriptions of the mundane - 'a septic handbag'.
Rating: 4
Summary: Last chaper was the best
Comment: I've given this book only four stars because it wasn't long enough! I would have liked to read more about her childhood from her point of view. Nancy's stories about it were from another vantage since she was 16 when Deborah was born.
I wasn't bored by this book at all. Have been reading about the Mitfords this summer and fall and am interested in their way of life which is so different than mine.
I don't mind the footnotes telling who people are. Some I knew, others I had never heard of. I didn't think the use of footnotes was excessive, but then I read a lot of books that have footnotes so am not concerned about them.
The Duchess has been very successful with managing Chatsworth House and I admire her for that. Her wit and wisdom come through as she writes matter-of-factly about her life. She doesn't sound stuffy at all. I wish I could visit Chatsworth and meet her.
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Title: Chatsworth the House: The House by Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish Devonshire, Duchess of Devonshire, Simon Upton ISBN: 0711216754 Publisher: Frances Lincoln Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford ISBN: 0575400048 Publisher: Indigo Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne De Courcy ISBN: 0066210615 Publisher: William Morrow & Company Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell ISBN: 0393324141 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel by Anne De Courcy, Anne De Courcy ISBN: 0060565322 Publisher: William Morrow & Company Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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