Oh, the trees! If you, like me, grew up with Anne and Emily naming and loving trees in L.M. Montgomery's novels, you will love Hilary Scharper's novel Perdita. Touchstone - Simon & Schuster, 2013 There are many other reasons to respond to this story: a love of history,
1971; Heinemann, 1995 Officially joining Kinna in A Celebration of Bessie Head July 6 - 12, 2013? ImageNations and Mary Okeke Reviews. And, unofficially, plenty more readers. Readers meet Maru in the novel's opening pages, but I love this description which comes later: "He was a man who talked and walked slowly, with
Could be that "Carried Away" is my favourite Alice Munro story. 1994; Penguin, 1999 Not only because Louisa is a librarian. (But that certainly helps.) "The Librarian’s desk was in the archway between the front and back rooms. The books were on shelves set in rows in the
Shivan understands, years later, that his grandmother sees herself as the peréthi from the parable. She lives like a ghost, naked and hungry, surrounded by pleasures that she cannot enjoy. Doubleday - Random House, 2013 "Everything she touched, everything she loved, disintegrated in her hands." Readers benefit from Shivan's
Thanks to Tamara of Thyme for Tea and Karen of BookBath, there is another Paris in July for all of us to enjoy. Yesterday, I read the first story in Paul Headrick's The Doctrine of Affections, which is set in 19th-Century Paris. It's the perfect kind of story to launch an event like this.
