What's Open Now: Fiction

1/31/2009 Missed entering altogether, What Looks Like Crazy by Charlotte Hughes, who's following Mifflin Community Library on twitter. A light-hearted read I enjoyed. Love that the adopted dog "Mike" ends up having puppies and retains the name "Mike." I probably know a Junque Lady or two.

Also, Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. Wow. It is remarkably modern compared to Jane Austen (commentary included in Wives and Daughters and Cranford BBC production.) Must compare dates of writing.

Still have Poison Study open. What else is hanging around at the foot of the bed...Should add that reading has been postponed while DVDs of Boston legal Season Two are viewed!

1/23/2009 A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh Does not draw me in with as much intensity as those authored by Dorothy L., yet parts are staying with me. The tune sung by the young schoolchild (especially as sung falsetto by Petherbridge in the Book on CD), has been bouncing around in my head. To the tune of "Colonel Bogey March" (corps of Getty servicemen marching in parade, Bridge on the River Kwai) the ditty sings of Hitler's testicles, or lack thereof. I was very pleased that this novel offered additional insight into WWII Britain (and nice to be reading Austerity Britain at the same time).

1/16/2009 Poison Study, UK release, Maria V. Snyder Looking forward to the release of Maria's new book Storm Glass that follows a character from Fire Study. See pictures from Maria's visit to Mifflin Community Library through the library's website at www.berks.lib.pa.us/mifflincl Yelena and Valek's world parallels ours in flora and fauna, but with the inclusion of magic, empathic horses, and a geography that defies placement. I admit to being deeply disappointed that Criollo has a direct connection with our world's confectionery, and is more exotic only in my imagination. Still, one can but dream of that most perfect concoction!