For the first time, twelve-year-old Emma Ellinger feels truly connected to her mother. They are finally “doing something together, alone, with no man, no Uncle Anyone, to interfere". Tangier, Moracco 1887 Click for source data It's true that the cruise hasn't gone entirely as planned; they have packed the
Readers familiar with Margaret Millar's suspense novels, will immediately recognize her style and language in Wives and Lovers. (Just yesterday I discussed Vanish in an Instant, another volume in the Syndicate reprint series.) "It was a shoebox of a room, with the ceiling pressed down on it like a lid, and
A new Friday fugue, concluding this week, considering the ways in which our working lives appear on the pages of novels and short stories. (Previous weeks can be viewed here, here and here, if you're keen.) Riverhead, 2013 Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Sydney Taylor's More All-of-a-Kind Family (1954) Dell Publishing, 1967 The third volume in Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family series is everything that is promised in the title: More. More years for the children, who now range in age as follows: Ella, 15; Henriette (Henny), 13; Sarah, 11; Charlotte, 9; Gertie, 7; and Charlie,
Edward Eager's Half Magic (1954) Illus. N.M. Bodecker Harcourt Brace & Company, 1985 Countless times, I borrowed the school library's copy of this book but, to be honest, I don't remember which, if any, of its sequels I read. I do know that I borrowed some of them, too, when
