I'm reading what, for crying out loud... My grandmother, who gave me a lot of my favorite books when I was growing up, was a reader. Their house in Davy had a lot of coffee table books, places that my grandparents had traveled, but if you wanted to read, you had to dig into my …
Continue reading 365 Books: Miss Armstead Wears Black Gloves by Marian Devon
Yesterday my husband and I made the mistake of watching the movie, The Giver. Within 5 minutes, our expectations for the movie were significantly lowered but I insisted on finishing it: I haven't read The Giver but I had read something else that I thought she had written, when I was a little girl (but …
Continue reading 365 Books: Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
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
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