The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman.  I didn't want to like this book.  I'm opposed, on several grounds, to children's books being set in graveyards (and the ghosts were my least favorite part of Harry Potter).  But I had to like it.  It was an homage to The Jungle Book.  It was very well written (this is my first work by Neil Gaiman).  He handled the ( Read more... )

Crampton Hodnet is a re-read. This is a very early Barbara Pym and was not published until after her death. It is fun to see the early incarnations of such favorite characters is Miss Morrow and Miss Doggett and the Clevelands.

Poison Study - Maria Snyder. Saw these when I still worked at Borders. The first two came into Half Price and since I ( Read more... )

is Affairs at Thrush Green by Miss Read.  The Miss Read books are some of my all-time favorites.  I just found this one at the store and had to buy it (I work in a used book store).  Will try not to get sucked into re-reading the whole series, which does occasionally happen to me.

(cross-posted in 50bookchallenge)