Category: Bookshelf

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is written over a narrow winding street with Old-style architecture

I’ve read A Christmas Carol before, of course. When exactly, I can’t remember–perhaps it was for school. Reading it again, I’m impressed by the wealth of detail. The world comes […]

Sarah, Plain and Tall

The cover of Sarah, Plain and Tall (from a screenshot on my computer) shows a woman and a couple of children in old-fashioned clothes walking up a path through flat farmland.

I’ve often heard that Sarah, Plain and Tall is a very good book, but somehow I hadn’t read it before. It’s a deceptively simple story, short, with easy-to-read language. Despite […]

Cress

A paperback copy of Cress sits on a Christmas quilt next to a red document tubedecorated for Chinese New Year. There's lots of red.

Marissa Meyer has written another fabulous book with Cress. Book Three of The Lunar Chronicles lives up to the high standard set by Cinder and Scarlet. (My daughter would say […]

Bridge to Terabithia

Cover for Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson (Special 40th anniversary Edition) on a computer screen. Picture--Silhouette of girl swinging on rope from a tree across a gully toward silhouette of boy next to taller tree. Background blues with stars, silhouette of a pink/purple castle foggy in the background.

I read Bridge to Terabithia once long ago, and my memory of it was fuzzy–only that it was a very good book, and that it made me sad. When a […]