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or very much of what i read i ll probably hit up the books i disliked in one post to save time but i thought i d take a second to note one book that i did very much enjoy have you read dorothy gilman before born in new jersey gilman began writing children s stories under the name of dorothy gilman butters she dropped the name butters after her divorce and began writing solely under her maiden name on the heels of agatha christie gilman offered up the character of emily pollifax a sixty year old woman who doubled as a member of the local garden club as well as a spy for the cia mrs pollifax is the character that gilman is most well known for however she did write several other novels including incident at badamya incident at badamya tells the story of sixteen year old gen daughter of an american missionary who has been raised in burma due to a series of hardships her father commits suicide in 1950 leaving his young daughter with a charge to find her own way back to america and to her aunt for guardianship gen leaves the village where she had lived with her father to hike along the river where she had observed a steamer ship the ship had passed by the village on the day of her father s suicide and she hoped to secure passage onboard the 1950 s in post independent burma saw a lot of upheaval and civil unrest and gen s journey isn t all that she had hoped she ends up being captured and held with a group of europeans who had been onboard said steamer for ransom this book is part mystery but mostly suspense gilman s style of story telling is engaging and intelligent it s clear that she has a good handle on world events as well as different world religions and philosophy which makes this an intriguing story to read gilman traveled extensively in her adult life and that set the stage for her mrs pollifax series but also aided her in crafting other tales such as this one gilman really is a joy and a pleasure to read if you ve not yet read gilman i d recommend you start with pollifax first as i think you ll like her best but if you do have a chance to read any other of gilman s works i would also recommend you take the opportunity i don t believe you would regret it posted by carrie at 9 22 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mystery wednesday june 30 2021 gerald and elizabeth by d e stevenson i now have a long term bookish relationship with d e stevenson i hunt for her books when traveling in the uk i scout them down online and i browse for them in antique shops and thrift stores everywhere i pick up each one that i find not a single one has been left behind i love d e stevenson and so i was delighted when traveling to find this copy at a thrift store what a find if you ve not yet read a d e stevenson i would recommend that you get to it when people ask me what her books are most like i commonly compare them to the mitford or miss read series they are very calm usually have a happy ending they contain solid characters and provide a good chuckle or two these are very pleasant light and engaging reads and i love them i dove into gerald and elizabeth immediately upon purchase this book tells the story of a brother and sister duo gerald has hit rock bottom and as a trail or two going on in his life whereas his sister elizabeth has met with great success the two aren t a perfect match but they love each other dearly and this book tells the story of how they help each other along navigating heartbreak and clearing up mysteries it is a fun distracting read just as i expected that it would be gerald and elizabeth i noted when reading felt different than some of stevenson s other books as usual when i m reading a book i don t stop to research anything about it until i am done so that i can focus on the story exclusively an impression that i had when reading was that the times in which stevenson were writing had changed to some extent her characters spoke of looser morals than in previous books nothing torrid happens in the story at all but characters are referenced airplane travel had entered into the picture and the gap between scotland and england didn t seem quite so far as it had before when her characters had to travel by train there were just little notables which told me something was different about this particular book sure enough upon the conclusion of my reading i went to research it d e stevenson wrote prolifically from 1932 to 1970 from the years 1952 to 1969 she wrote one novel a year gerald and elizabeth was published in 1969 and is largely touted to be her final work which explains why her characters are a bit more lax and travel more accessible having read much of what she wrote in the earlier half of her career it was fascinating to read a book that came towards the end of it one thing that remains extremely unclear to me is how d e stevenson concluded her life in 1970 a sequel to gerald and elizabeth was published called the house of the deer while many websites list gerald and elizabeth as her last work it would be more accurate to say that this was her last mini series apparently a collection of works were also published posthumously which i am now eager to get my hands on d e stevenson passed away in 1973 at the age of 81 years of age i d like to think she spent her final years just relaxing and enjoying life she certainly had produced an epic amount of work in her lifetime and fun work at that i love this picture of her taken when she was older she looks like a friendly soul that i would like to have had the chance to talk to since i can t do that i will go on enjoying her works appreciating more now how she evolved as a writer over time who is an author that you just love to read over and over again is there an author that you just cannot get enough of care to share if you re looking for a new writer to love and you haven t read stevenson yet well i ll push her forward as an option again posted by carrie at 3 14 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels carrie s favorites general fiction wednesday june 23 2021 a place to hang the moon by kate albus a place to hang the moon is kate albus s debut album and worth every bit of your reading time it won t last long enough for you that s how good it is i had this book recommended to me by a trusted bookstagram friend bookworm_baggins and she did not steer me wrong i trust i ll not steer you wrong either this book is set in england during the early stages of world war ii as children were just being sent to billets outside of london siblings william edmund and anna find themselves in an usual situation in that their grandmother has just passed away and there are no other relatives for them to be sent to live with it s not exactly the most stable situation in england so what will their solicitor choose to do with them dare they use the systems in place to evacuate children in order to find them a forever family certainly it s a bit of a different approach but will it work that s what we find out in a place to hang the moon kate albus s writing style is clever and calm although this is obviously a high tense situation that the children find themselves in it has a narnia flavor about it the kids are capable of seeing the adventure and understanding what is at stake for them yes they meet with challenges but you are confident of their ability to overcome the characters are believable and appealing enough to wish you could know them in real life there isn t anything i disliked about this story i was delighted at the conclusion of the read to discover in the acknowledgements that albus herself is a fan of narnia hence edmund further cementing the friendship i feel towards her you all know of my long fascination with both narnia and the mysterious benedict society put this piece of middle grade fiction high up on my list of top books carrie recommends i can t think of anyone who wouldn t like it if someone said that they weren t a fan assume the fault is theirs and not the book s albus has done beautifully and i will look forward to reading anything else she writes in the future posted by carrie at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels carrie s favorites middle grade monday june 21 2021 where d you go bernadette by maria semple where d you go bernadette by maria semple is not my normal cup of tea seriously if you are familiar with me and with this blog at all you know i m really picky and choosey about what pieces of modern fiction i will agree to read i think as i age i m actually becoming just slightly less picky and more agreeable to the idea of just sitting down with a book which might not be all that but which is a bit of fun that s what i hoped this book would be and that is what it was i m going to give you my regular conservative reader alert straight up so that you know and understand that i didn t miss things there are curse words scattered throughout the book definitely more in the second half than the first that s to reel you in see turn down those defenses there is also the issue of infidelity which i thought was handled in a very flippant manner and which completely and totally ignored the fact that such actions have significant consequences not to mention these actions cause ridiculous amounts of pain semple wrote about the topic in a manner which suggested it was not only excusable and understandable but also no big deal i took huge issue with her handling of this topic however i will say she doesn t become explicit in her writing of the story and for that i remain grateful then too her writing style for this book is very unique and not altogether to my liking after all of the above are you asking yourself why i read it i read it for fun just that where d you go bernadette was published in 2012 is a national bestseller has loads of people and publications supporting it and was made into a movie starring cate blanchett which i am now very curious to see the book was written as if it would one day be made into a movie and discerning readers will know exactly what i mean when i say that semple s writing style is very casual and goes above and beyond in describing any individual character s emotions and reactions in such a way that suggested to me that it was set up to be a screen play sometimes you can read a book and just know what the author was hoping would happen perhaps that is an unfair characterization of semple but there it is the book reads like a movie and for me that s actually what ended up making it fun i didn t read this book to think so much as i read it to be entertained and it was very very entertaining the story is told through the eyes of bernadette s fifteen year old daughter bee we get to know their family and quirks through a series of e mails letters and second hand accounts that bee shares t his is ultimately bee s book about what happened to her mother you could think of this story as a bit of a redemption to the likes of eat pray love mom gets fed up with life mom hits some snags she doesn t know how to properly deal with mom disappears but in this case mom comes back i don t feel like that spoils the book it s obvious that s what s going to happen if it didn t this book was likely to read off as a murder mystery and the cutesy cover is your clue that story does not involve a murder the story is set in seattle and semple writes amusing descriptions of the city and its occupants she has a very tongue in cheek style of humor and you will find yourself smirking as you read from time to time especially if you are a reader with idaho plates on your car would i recommend this book liberally no it s not a perennial classic certain personalities will love it others will flat out hate it both reactions are valid i feel in this case there are things to be enjoyed and things to raise your eyebrows at if you are looking for a fun read and you want to know whether this book is worth your time well i don t feel altogether helpful except to tell you that semple is a playful writer who seems as if she wants to have fun with a fun story it isn t masterful by any stretch but if you like a good comedy drama on the screen then you are probably of the inclination to like this story on the page as well posted by carrie at 6 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fiction general fiction wednesday june 16 2021 each little bird that sings by deborah wiles look at me go two posts in one week what on earth i may not write as often as i used to but i would like to make note of particular books that stood out to me that i ve read and think others would be curious to know more about i know i ve said this before and i will totally say it again because it was a very impacting thing but i was once told that i liked books that were rather on the childish side and weren t as worthy of my reading time as i might believe i disagreed then and i disagree even more heartily now i m really glad that when my kids were little i read as many middle grade fiction books as i did not only did i enjoy them but i poured a lot of time and energy into previewing books and building up a legacy library for my family my kids are now teens and pre teens when they come to me and tell me that they finished one read and are looking for another we can just take a quick little jaunt over to our home library shelves and find another i ve already read most of them and have a good idea what is there and am not scrambling for information also let s be real i like middle grade fiction best and i now happily and very boldly embrace that fact don t let anyone tell you that the genre you like to read isn t worth your time unless it s the twilight series or 50 shades and then we need to have a serious sit down i like middle grade fiction but i don t care for much of what is being published these days picking up titles published anytime after the year 2010 i feel is moderately risky business for the more conservative reader i haven t spent a lot of time previewing new releases in recent years that explained i was out thrifting and i came across this title each little bird that sings by deborah wiles for about the fifteenth time and took that as a sign that i should buy it and check it out which i proceeded to do the other afternoon i was looking for a quick read so i snatched this one off the shelf and it occupied the next hour and a half of my life i m not remotely sorry about it now if you should pick up every little bird that sings on my recommendation know that you will open it begin reading and if you know me at all you ll begin to wonder what i saw in it before you get antsy hear me out this title opens up in the usual modern 2010 way the writing style begins as something i consider cheap flippant and too grabby in an effort to capture the reader s immediate attention authors these days hav...