What, you are thinking, is a Limberlost? It sounds like Stranger Things' Upsidedown - but it's not. It's a wetlands forest in Eastern Indiana. It used to stretch for 13,000 acres but enterprising Americans drained parts of it in the late 19th Century. As many wetland forests do, it had a bit of a reputation …
Continue reading 365 Books: A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
To be honest, I thought I had a copy of this around here somewhere but my archivist checked the app on his phone and informs me that, unless I snuck a copy in without asking him to scan it into the app yet again, that book does not reside in my collection. This delightful book …
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 …
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