Felice Holman's Slake's Limbo (1974) Aladdin Books, 1986 The idea of people living underground (you know, some call them "mole people", those making homes and living out their lives in storm drains and subway networks, underground sections of major cities) has fascinated me since I first heard of the idea
Sam Savage's The Cry of the Sloth Coffee House Press 2009 This is taken from a letter addressed to Bob, Eric and Juan: "I have received another complaint about the noise. You will have to turn it down after 10 or find another place. Wear clothes when you go to
Jane Gardam's Going into a Dark House Little Brown 1994 Jane Gardam is one of my MRE authors, having discovered Bilgewater a few years back, and this collection also counts for the 2010 Reading Challenge (in the Charity Shop category, because my friend Helen picked it up at the Oxfam
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
