*WARNING - This is MY FAVORITE book of all time, so there will be gooing, gushing and shameless pluggery!Welcome to Nollop, a quaint, autonomous island that lies quite near Charlotte, SC. Though the islanders shun modern technology, they take pride in their educated citizenry. Language is pract...
I have been looking forward to reading Ibid: A Life by Mark Dunn. It is the imaginative biography of Jonathan Blashette, a three-legged man. After opening with several letters between the author, his editor, and his brother, that explain what happened to the actual manuscript, the entire story co...
The snake was friendly at first and did not bite him, but Wayne remembered from a science report he once wrote about the world’s largest snakes that boas do not generally bite. They constrict. After a while the boa grew tired of being friendly and decided to slither up to Wayne and do some constr...
You have a much better way with Mr. Nevers than have I, and someone must speak to him to enrol him in some plan to give Lieutenant Alford and our friend Nancy a little time together during the Sunday service. It will be Alford’s only opportunity to see Nancy before the ball, and to privately expr...
Carrie was with her. And Jane had been with Carrie. The two had grown very close during Sylvia Hale’s final hours and in the wake of the senseless deaths of Pat and Cain. The week past had been a particularly hard one for residents of the nearby London neighbourhoods that were being bombed night ...