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BOOKS for July
As summer heats up, reading on the porch, with a tall glass of lemonade is a must. Here are some titles to dive into while you relax to the drone of a faraway lawnmower and the flash of lazy lighting bugs. ASYLUM FOR FAIRY TALE CREATURES by Sebastian Gregory This is a wonderfully imaginative short…
ACCENT: THE MIST IN THE MIRROR by Susan Hill
Hill employs the standard elements — vague warning from an older gentleman, unsettling malaise, a crumbling English house, a mysterious ancestry and a naive narrator — to tell the story of James Monmouth. James, our narrator, is English by birth but has no memory of the short time he spent there as a small child.…
ACCENT: THE RAILWAYMAN’S POCKETBOOK
This book is such a treasure. Like many people, I have a nostalgia for vintage train travel (even though I never experienced it). I even got married at an old roundhouse. There is something very elemental about iron, steam, fire and coal getting you from one place to another. The Railwayman’s Pocketbook is a compendium…
31 Days of Halloween — October 24, 2013
I don’t know who this woman is but she is cool! My guess is that she is the Wicked Witch of the West — check out the stuffed Toto in the basket.