Louise Penny's Still Life Headline, 2005 Some of you might recall my eye-rolling, woulda-been-snarky-if-I-wasn't-so-darned-Canadian letter to The Public Library late-spring this year. I offer this post to balance the scales, for there is another staff member there whom I actually look forward to seeing behind the counter. She started a conversation
If you've read both of these authors, you're probably wondering what they're doing here, sharing a title and a post like this. But as I was reading them, the other evening before bed, I was struck by a fundamental connection, in the way that I was read these novels (not
Giles Blunt's Blackfly Season (2005) Seal Books, 2006 It would have been far more appropriate to have read this mystery earlier in the season in, say, Blackfly Season. And it would have been far more appropriate to have read it in closer proximity to the first two books in this
Diana Wynne Jones' Charmed Life (1977) Harper Collins, 2007 Chrestomanci Book 1 You’ve probably heard it too: Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci series is better than Harry Potter. And, yes, that it came first (so, not to be confused with the myriad of Potter-knock-offs). Which it did and, if the first
Peter Temple's The Broken Shore (2005) Random House, 2008 Sometime in early May I picked up a copy of Peter Temple's Truth at the library; it was on my hold shelf with a few other books. <cough> (It doesn't really matter for the purposes of this story that you know
