Out of McKillip's later works, this is my favorite. First, it's beautifully packaged, with gorgeous cover art that captures her sensibilities. Second, it's so beautifully told. And it's about a book. Sort of. It starts with a war between a big bully country and a little magic country. The war is so loud it does …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip
I must have bought this young reader book at a school bookfair many years ago. I don't know what attracted me to it - maybe the cover illustration? I can't imagine that this one was a gift from my book-gifting grandmother: not her cup of tea, at all. In this book, Ozzie - an unrepentant …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Big Joke Game by Scott Corbett
Sometimes, when I am picking out books to write about for this series, I decide I'm going to write about books about women on the frontier west, for example, pull out a whole pile of those, stack them on the coffee table next to my writing chair... and then get writer's block. I think my …
I guess I wasn't completely accurate when I told you, dear reader, that I don't read books you would find shelved in Fiction/Literature in the bookstores. Because I do own about 40 linear inches of Angela Thirkell. I discovered* Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire novels when I was visiting my mother in Paris. She had been encouraging …
Continue reading 365 Books: Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell
My mother discovered this book and kept it on her bedside table, along with West with the Night (which I have not read), Out of Africa (which I have not read), and The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (which I will write about some time). This stack of books tells you almost everything you …
Continue reading 365 Books: Any Four Women Could Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen
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