This Saturday is all-historical, as was last week's, with one proper Shelf Discovery choice and one of my "particularly Canlit Shelf Discovery" choices. Next Saturday will feature three of my favourite fantasy reads. Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1963) It may have been cheating a little to re-read
This Saturday marks the beginning of a series of Saturdays devoted to Shelf-Discovery reads, or Shelf-Discovery-inspired reads. I joined the actual Challenge late, else there would have been more Saturdays filled with nostalgic re-reading of kidlit heretofore. But better re-read later than never to have read at all. This Saturday
Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes (1936) Bonnie and Paul Zindel's A Star for the Latecomer (1980) I wanted to be a ballerina when I grew up. My best friend and I practiced the five positions (complete with leaping and twirling in and out of them) on the couch in her family
Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah (1975) When my copy of Z for Zachariah came through on library loan, I was a bit disappointed: it was a relatively new paperback and the cover wasn't anywhere near as disturbing as I remember the cover of the edition that I read as
I really hadn’t planned to re-read more than one of Lois Duncan’s novels for the Shelf Discovery Reading Challenge but I enjoyed Down a Dark Hall so much that I re-considered. I was really expecting it to feel more dated (and maybe it would have if I wasn’t approaching it
