While She Knits

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

Summer is over, school has started, Megan is back in Ohio knitting a new pair of socks for her upcoming trip to Boston as a Boston-Globe Horn Book Awards Honoree, and thesehnsucht 's recent post brings to mind just how long it has been since we had a WSK conversation.

What books have you read recently that really left an impression on you?  What are the ones on your To Be Read or Upcoming New Release lists that you are simply itching to get at? 

Comments

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I went to a library book sale a few weeks ago and spent an appalling amount of money, but who can resist books for $1, or 50 cents on the second day?

I'm reading The Lives of Christopher Chant right now. I've never read any of that series.

I'm re-reading Kate Seredy's The Good Master, and also The Chestry Oak.

I also bought a bunch of books by Maud and Miska Petersham. The Story Book of Gold, of Clothing, of Oil, etc. There are 12 of them. They're nonfiction, and I'm sure the stories are interesting enough, but they were printed in the 1930's and I really bought them for the lovely lithographed illustrations. The depth and the colors - oh, they really knew how to print picture books back then!

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Lives of Christopher Chant! I read that just the other week and loved it. I'd recommend Charmed Life next, but only because it's the only other Chrestomanci I've read... or maybe Conrad's Fate, since it's the next one chronologically in-world.

[traboule.livejournal.com]

Kate Seredy! It's been YEARS (possibly decades? Well, maybe one) but I still remember loving The Good Master.

I'm such a sucker for a good piece of historical writing.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

So have you read its sequel, The Singing Tree?

And speaking of historical fiction: Eloise Jarvis McGraw!