50 Shades of Red, White, and Blue (Ann Rinaldi's first and most unforgettable historical romance: Time Enough for Drums (1986)

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Clear your calendars. Burn a chakra candle. Prepare yourself for the greatest love story that never needed to be told. Join us as we tackle Ann Rinaldi's first and most unforgettable historical romance: Time Enough for Drums (1986). The cover poses the question: "Can Jem ever love a Tory?" Please trust us that this will be the lowest on your list of questions after following along with our Rinaldi read.

Original air date: February 28, 2020

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0:00.0	The scene, a shopkeeper's dining area, sometime in the early 1770s. The war is on, but we wouldn't know it by this quiet hearth. We begin. My heart became chilled, like a cold meat cake. There was a reason, but how could I tell him?
0:19.0	Raymond's letter suddenly seemed stilted and childish. I'd come to realize under John Reed's tutelage that I'd
0:25.2	grown much older and wiser. Raymond was just a childhood friend and I was no longer a child.
0:31.6	But there was more, and my my heart the cold meat cake was bursting for being
0:35.9	unable to say it. Well? He insisted. I don't know how to answer his last letter.
0:41.2	Why?
0:43.0	His brown eyes scrutinized me.
0:45.0	He, I stammered it out.
0:47.0	He's asked me to court me when he comes home and I don't want it.
0:50.0	He nodded sipping his coffee.
0:52.0	Why don't you want to?
0:54.0	Well, goodness, I blushed.
0:56.0	I feel a great distance between us, not because he's away, but because I've grown up so,
1:00.0	and there is no common bond with us anymore.
1:03.0	Don't you want to marry someday, Jemima?
1:05.3	Yes, sir, but not Raymond Moore.
1:07.2	Who then?
1:08.0	Have you someone in mind?
1:10.0	Your mother tells me you languish about the house and stare at nothing.
1:13.6	She thought you were smitten with Raymond.
1:15.8	I did not know where to look.
1:17.6	At my hands in my lap?
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