Everyone grumbled. The sky was grey.We had nothing to do and nothing to say.It was nearing the end of a dismal day,And there seemed to be nothing beyond.THENDaddy fell into the pond! Quick, who wrote that poem? I discovered this poem as a young child, in one of the first books I remember owning, Piping …
Continue reading Piping Down the Valleys Wild edited by Nancy Larrick
Would you stay the night in a haunted house? That's the question that draws the narrator into this creepy book. His friend, who has been acting stranger and stranger, since returning from family exile in Canada after the suicide of his elder brother, which caused the friend to unexpectedly inherit the family estate. An estate …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Plague Court Murders by Carter Dickson
Which should probably be re-titled, The I-Told-You-So Plague. Have you ever loved a book so much, been so enthralled by the action, so entranced by the characters, so high on a book that, the second you closed the back cover, you went back to page 1 and read it through again? And maybe again. That's …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
Many evenings, as I leave my office building, the guy behind the desk is reading. Just before the holiday break, I finally asked him what he’s reading. (Old occupational habit that I can’t break, sorry.) He was reading some book about the bad boys of cinema, old celebrities who, when they were young used to …
Continue reading 365 Books: Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Having given you a book yesterday in which bigfoot was incidental, I now present you a book where bigfoot is central. Bigfoot. Legendary lovers separated by time and reborn to be reunited. A woman who looks like a tall Snow White (I always pictured Geena Davis) and wants nothing more than to get a Lois …
Continue reading 365 Books: Naked Came the Sasquatch by John Boston
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