While sorting and tossing my early notebooks, I usually note titles I read and loved. Many I've utterly forgotten, and some I remember but the Suck Fairy has waved the Wand of Guano over them. But once in a while I hit a title and get this flash of whoa, I remember that! One I'd checked out repeatedly from our library was Doris Sutcliffe Adams' No ( Read more... )

I love ediscovering old favorites and finding the old magic still works, if not as intensely. One of these--I've never heard anyone mention it--is Mary Chase's Loretta Mason Potts. It was pubbed by Lippincott (how many of my generation's old favorites were put out by Lippincott?) in '58, and illustrated charmingly by Harold Berson. I do remember ( Read more... )

I finally forced myself to finish Ursula Dubosarsky's Abysinnia, which I had begun weeks ago, and set aside because this is just not a children's book--nor is it (to me) satisfying as an adult novel ( Read more... )