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Recommended by: Marissa Lingen The title sounded familiar and I thought I read it as a child, but the story itself didn’t ring any bells. Published in 1957, the book features two half-grown kids interacting with two elderly people living in abandoned summer homes, surrounded by lots of nature and lots of kindness. Portia visits her cousin [...] Recommended by: Willamette Writers Portland In this novel, a rural Minnesota family reels from the mother’s cancer diagnosis. We see Theresa, only 38, and her partner and children grappling with her illness. I loved the finely detailed setting. The trees, the bears, the snow, and the routinely-traveled distances all bring rural Minnesota to life. The [...] Recommended by: Spirituality Bookgroup. This novel about convention, betrayal, growing up, and finding center is filled with wisdom and grace. Ronit grew up in a tiny, insular Jewish Orthodox congregation within London. She is the rebellious daughter of their revered Rabbi. Aided by her father’s sending her to an American university, she has escaped [...] I received this book, originally published in 1935, with a childhood gift of six classic Young Adult novels. I’ve carried the set from home to home ever since, but hadn’t reread any of the books in many years. Before I send the set off to my niece and nephew, I decided to reread “National [...] Recommended by: Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s past books. “The Lacuna” is both epic and personal, ranging across countries and decades and historic events, and also documenting the details of a child’s life. The point-of-view character, Harrison William Shepherd, is unwanted by his father and only haphazardly cared for by his alcoholic self-centered mother. The book starts [...] Recommended by: a friend in Tifton, GA. Janie Hopwood creates a colorful panorama of characters and events in this historical novel about her grandmother Rena Beck’s boarding house. When Rena Beck’s husband died, leaving her a house but nothing else, she decided to take in boarders in order to provide for herself and her three unmarried [...] Recommended by: Tess Alfonsin A hard-edged book for teens that takes on multiple tough issues: Children’s cruelty to each other for being fat or disfigured While I applaud the author’s courage in addressing all these important issues, I think the book would have [...] Recommended by: childhood memories After reading Finn Family Moomintroll recently, I was inspired to seek out Moominland Midwinter, which I also vaguely remembered from childhood. It’s a quick read, and contrasts quite a bit with the earlier book. The mood is bleaker, as befits a northern winter, and the relationships between characters are more superficial and troubled. [...] Recommended by: Ursula Le Guin, while reviewing “The True Deceiver” I stumbled across Finn Family Moomintroll in my elementary school’s library as a child, and didn’t really know what to make of it, but loved the image of the snow falling, and the creatures curling up safely for the winter. Re-reading it now, I still love the first [...] Recommended by: Dave Hingsburger’s blog The book begins, “My name is Perry L. Crandall and I am not retarded. Gram always told me the L stood for Lucky.” Perry is indeed lucky to be raised by his observant, patient Gram, since the rest of his family is avaricious and self-centered in the extreme. He is also [...] |
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