Summer's here! While my summers as a kid were the most book-soaked parts of my year, this summer will be less book-soaked than my 2010 has been to date. In fact, even some of the regular monthly features here will be on vacation. I might wander through some short stories
Ethel Wilson's The Equations of Love Macmillan, 1952 When Melwyk said that she, too, only had this one Ethel Wilson left to read, we decided to read the two novellas published in Equations of Love together. You know how it is, when you are about to exhaust a favoured writer's
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Links (1923) Harper, 2001 If you've been following along, you'll know that I have a fancy-schmancy spreadsheet listing Agatha Christie novels with only a single tick-mark in it. After years of thinking about it, I finally read my first Agatha Christie mystery earlier this year,
Antony Trollope's The Warden (1855) Random House, 2003 When a reading friend first got bitten by the Trollope bug a few years back, I rushed out to buy a copy of this novel, the first in his Barsetshire series; of course I intended to read it immediately, but you know
Hope Larson's Mercury Simon & Schuster, 2010 I read Hope Larson's Chiggers in 2008; I'd seen it on a list somewhere (Graphic Novels You Can't Miss, that kind of thing) and I think I was expecting a combination of Little Darlings with an Enid Blyton summer adventure story, and the
