Terry Griggs’s The Silver Door Raincoast Books, 2004 Have you met Murray Sheaffer, fountain pen extraordinaire? He is a most “handsome, clever and rich (yes!)” fountain pen. Wondering how he could possibly fill the role of hero in Terry Griggs’s Cat’s Eye Trilogy? Then you must have met some other,
Mostly I've been obsessing with serial lit this summer. Much of this was inspired by my commitment issues. Some of it was rooted in nostalgia, as complicated as that may be. Part of it was just for fun. Altogether, it added up to a lot of books. Beverly Cleary's Ramona
It’s been an entire month now. Talking about the series that I’ve been reading this summer. How time flies. When you’re reading. And re-reading. When you’re chatting about reading. Part of the reason that I was so determined about reading series this summer is that I had set finishing some
When I look for the words to describe re-visiting the books in the series I loved to read when I was a girl, I pluck words like ‘delightful’ and ‘splendid’ from the possibilities. Old-fashioned joy words that fit perfectly with the old-fashioned flavour of the tales I loved. Language suitable
Louisa May Alcott's Jo's Boys (1886) For all that I remembered Jo as being another sort of character in Little Women, one passionate about writing and determined to be an author, there is, at least, a taste of that, finally, in Jo's Boys. The third chapter of this novel is
