Happy November first!
That means a new book for The Book List.
Here is my November book.
This is the first of a series of books by Mazo De La Roch.
Written in 1927, and there are 16 novels in the series.
During my childhood, till I married, My family moved avery two years. I was often lonely and read often.
I was around 14 years old when My mother suggested that i check one of the "Jalna" books from the library. I had read all of them and continued to reread them during my adult life.
(I have all 16 of them on my kindle)
The Jalna series consists of sixteen novels that tell the story of the Canadian Whiteoak family from 1854 to 1954, although each of the novels can also be enjoyed as an independent story. In the world of the Whiteoaks, as in real life, people live and die, find success and fall to ruin. For the Whiteoaks, there remains something solid and unchanging in the midst of life's transience--the manor house and its rich surrounding farmland known as "Jalna." The author, Mazo de la Roche, gave the members of her fictitious family names from gravestones in Ontario's Newmarket cemetery, and the story itself balances somewhere between fact and fiction. Critics think events in the novels reflect de la Roche's dreams, moods, and life experiences. As the daughter of a traveling businessman, she may have seen the Jalna estate as the roots she never had, while the character Finch, from Finch's Fortune, is thought to be a reflection of herself.
I do not often reread books but any of the
Jalna books are always on my list.
I have not read any of them in over 5 years, but,
I am rereading "The Building Of Jalna" this November and falling in love with the Whiteoak family all over again.
The autor Mazo De La Roche had a fascinating life and I feel as I know her in a way....
This months book is
THE BUILDING OF JALNA
by Mazo De La Roche.
I hope that you enjoy the novels as much as I do.
Love you beyond the moon.
Me
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