Perhaps you saw the BBC/PBS series, The Durrells in Corfu, which is sort of based on the stories in this book. It disappointed me. But it would have been impossible, I think, to capture what makes this book special in a TV series - it would need to have long stretches of wildlife photography, straight …
Continue reading 365 Books: My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
This is, I think, my second favorite book in the Little House series, next to The Long Winter. It feels like a season of fallow for the Ingalls family, a chance to rest and recuperate before diving back into their struggle to survive. This is also Laura's last burst of childhood, before she is expected …
Continue reading 365 Books: By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sometimes I wish my emotions wouldn't get the most of me. People think I'm calm. When I had an office at work (ahem), people would tell me that they found it calming to come into my space. The gentle music playing. The dim lighting. They could unburden themselves. Little do people suspect the roiling waves …
Continue reading 365 Books: Rider at the Gate by C.J. Cherryh
Feel like the odds are stacked against you? In the world of Lockwood & Co., the barrier between this world and the next has broken down and ghosts have invaded our world. I know, you can't see them - adults can't - but they are there and, if they touch you, you die. Luckily, they …
Continue reading 365 Books: Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
What? What is this? A book about Barbie? What am I - a philistine or something? In my pre-teen years, I inherited a whole bunch of books from my mother's and my favorite aunt's childhood collections. My mother's books consisted of about 50-75 hardcover "horse story" books - Misty of Chincoteague, Justin Morgan Had a …
Continue reading 365 Books: Barbie’s Fashion Success by Bette Lou Maybe
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