“It was a dark and stormy night.” The opening of this book imprinted itself on my ten-year-old brain in ways I didn’t fully realize until I returned to it over four decades later. I first read A Wrinkle in Time in 1975 when my grandmother, a children’s librarian, gave me a copy for my birthday. It wasn’t just any copy; it was a signed copy that my grandmother had purchased in 1963 when she attended the Newberry-Caldecott award dinner in Chicago—almost two years before my […]
“Turning into a mean-eyed lunch-kicker won’t help anything!”
In addition to reading for fun and to fight cancer, I’m also doing a book challenge with some work friends. The books we have to read are: a book published this year a book published year you were born a book you’ve been meaning to read a book recommended by you librarian/bookseller/others doing the challenge a book you should have read in school a book chosen for you by a spouse/partner/sibling/child/BFF/others doing the challenge a book published before you were born a book that was banned […]
A Series of Cool Stories That Somehow Fit Together
The title of this review explains a lot about the book. A boy’s parents were killed by a man named Jack. The boy wanders to a graveyard, then he gets taken in by the spirits. They don’t know what to do with him and then a Lady in Grey comes and tells them to take him in. He doesn’t know his own name cause he’s only a little boy so they call him Nobody. His guardian is not necessarily human, but as soon as you […]