What a delightful dark fantasy from the author of Coraline and American Gods. Gaiman’s writing is light but effective and creates a world in which to lose yourself. Recommended for all adults and older teens.
… is that fateful one when Riddle (yes, that’s really her name) is twelve, “almost thirteen,” as she qualifies it every time her age is mentioned. … is the summer when she half-witnesses something in a barn that, after not talking about it the first time she is asked, becomes impossible to talk about.
Brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, Fin & Lady become a family of two, having only met once in the past, when Fin’s parents die & Lady’s being considerably older allows her to become his guardian. Delightful.
Spookily coinciding with current events (Jaycee Dugard and other recent discoveries of old abductions), I find it easier to read about these horrifying things in novels that seem so real than in memoirs or accounts that creepily are.
Dear Patron, Read this one. You’ll enjoy the correspondence between “Sue,” in the Isle of Sky, and Davey, in Urbana, Illinois, who meet, via the mail, just before the (World) War (I). Sincerely, Deer Park Pageturners.
The movie Lincoln is only one facet of this gem by historian/author Goodwin. Take the time to delve into the many personalities of Lincoln’s Cabinet and why Tolstoy said “he will live as long as the world lives.”
1. Of course I have to write this this way. 2. Because this is how each chapter begins : with a list of ten. 3. There’s a dying father. 4. And a dead mother. 5. And a synesthetic homeless man. 6. Three daughters. 7. The City of London. 8. Connections, 9. missed connections. 10. And…
(Actually if you “read” the cover of this book carefully, you have a review… picture worth 1,000 words et. al.) Read it and see what you think.
An illustrated novel vs. a graphic one… 11 year-old Luz has gone mute after witnessing something (we don’t know what it is ’til near the end) and uses a Mexican deck of Loteria cards (look like tarot but play more like Bingo) to slowly– card-by-card– reveal her tale in writing.
Feeling never loved by her father, Constance marries Sidney and feels completely loved. She feels “my life begins the day I married an Englishman called Sidney Klein and said good-bye forever to Ravenswood and Daddy and all that went before.” (I’m not giving much away quoting this, don’t worry. It’s the novel’s second sentence.)