February Read/2019

Title: Birds of a Feather
Author: Winspear, Jacqueline
Call Number: F
Book description from amazon.com:
Jacqueline Winspear’s marvelous debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather, its follow-up, finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London “between the wars.” It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress’s old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman’s mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War.
My read:
     Maisie Dobbs Mysteries Series is my friend, Mary's favorite. After Agatha Christie, I have been looking for fiction books to read. Last week I came across Ms. Winspear's novels and I checked out this book two( book one was not available) to begin with. And I love it!
     In the book, "aura," and "meditation" are mentioned many times. This further got me interested in reading more of this author's books. Followed are from pages I found useful for me:
Page 21--"an enclosed area encouraged an enclosed mind. Always take the person to be questioned to a place where there's space, or where they can see few boundaries. Space broadens the mine and gives the voice room to be heard."
Page 36--"One must know how to doubt."
Page 46--"Knowing that at that point Maurice might have cautioned her against anger directed at the self, Maisie quickly sat back in the chair with her eyes closed. She placed her left hand on her solar plexus to become centered, and her right hand across her heart to denote kindness."
Page 143--"Maisie allowed a silence to envelop them, a time in which she composed her body, cleared her thoughts and saw in her mind's eye a connection forming between herself and the man opposite her. She imagined a stream of light emanating from the center of her forehead just above her nose, a bright thread that flowed toward her subject and bathed him with a luminous glow."
Page 194--"I am not at all surprised. As I have said many times, my dear, each case has a way of shining  a light on something we need to know about ourselves."
Page 299--"What I mean is this: Resentment must give way to possibility, anger to acceptance, grief to compassion, disdain to respect--on both sides. I mean change, Mr. Waite. Change. You've remained a successful businessman by embracing change, by mastering it, even when circumstances were against you..."