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catrose

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1. I vaguely remember that

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Sat Nov 30, 2019, 10:27 AM

Nov 2019

I gobbled up her books when I was a teenager, though even then balking at "I read the Bible cover to cover, and there's not one contradiction in it, not one." Because, you see, I also read the Bible from cover to cover when I was 13, and it left me with...questions.

Things have changed in my mind and in the world in fifty years, but I do remember those books fondly for the companions they were to me. (Other people have friends. I have books.) And I remember thinking Rance Nelius was a weird name. Rince Priebus? Weirder.

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Weird---Rance Nelius, a character in Grace Livingston Hill's book Stranger Within the Gates, name so [View all] bobbieinok Nov 2019 OP

I vaguely remember that catrose Nov 2019 #1

Yrs ago I read many but didn't catch most of the theology. Rereading some, finding -- bobbieinok Nov 2019 #4

Hill died in 1947. Priebus was born in '72. Igel Nov 2019 #2

Just goes to show... robbob Nov 2019 #3

Grace Livingston Hill is a name I never expected to see here, LOL! 50 Shades Of Blue Nov 2019 #5

Many free online at archive.bookfrom.net. Also several pages of titles at gutenberg bobbieinok Nov 2019 #6

Good to know - thanks! 50 Shades Of Blue Nov 2019 #7

Also many free at 100vampirenovels.net bobbieinok Nov 2019 #8

Thanks! I was really into MZB's Darkover novels, I'll have to see if they're available. 50 Shades Of Blue Nov 2019 #11

Some are at bookfrom or whatever it's called. I find it hard to wrap my head around that name! bobbieinok Nov 2019 #12

I'm hooked and just downloaded "Stranger" for free. Hortensis Nov 2019 #9

Have you read Gene Stratton Porter's Girl of the Limberlost and The Harvester? Decorating seems v m bobbieinok Nov 2019 #10