Dell Yearling has so many of the best kid's books: this one, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Journey from Peppermint Street, Piping Down the Valleys Wild - I couldn't name them all if I tried. This was one that, for awhile anyway, was on school reading lists (as so many Dell Yearlings were). Now, with …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Island of Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Ah, Amelia Peabody. There is nobody in the world now like Amelia Peabody. A combination of the high-handed confidence of a Victorian lady who is assured of her rightness, the compassion for underdogs that comes from noblesse oblige, and the intellect of an only daughter and youngest child, raised on classical scholarship. I want Amelia …
Continue reading 365 Books: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
I've been organizing my eBooks onto shelves by subject, something I had been putting off for a few years. I just realized how many eBooks I have that I bought, read on a plane or something, and forgot about. Somehow it's easier to do that with e- as opposed to p-books. When real books are …
One of my favorite museums in NYC is the Museum of the City of New York. It's not one that most tourists discover, although I suspect many public schools go there on field trips. It's a little further north on museum mile than the others. It's small. It doesn't have a collection of fine art …
When I was in high school, a bunch of my friends and I went to a summer camp for performing artists on an old army base (the one where An Officer & A Gentleman was filmed). My roommate was this cool chick who I had always gotten along with but, for some reason, we got …
Continue reading 365 Books: A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson
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