Tag: Loved It

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 […]

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 […]

Little Women

A postage stamp commemorating Louisa May Alcott's Little Women shows the four girls reading a letter.

I’ve been rereading Little Women the past few weeks, and I’m reminded what a wonderful book it is. I started reading it for a The Enchanted Book Club, but I’m […]