I recently read The Queen of Nothing, by Holly Black, and Imposters, by Scott Westerfeld. I wanted to throw them together into one post because while they are fairly different from each other, they are from the same genre, and both books feature twin sisters as the main characters.
At the end of August this past summer, we quit Amazon Prime and Netflix. A number of factors were at play, but the main thing is that our memberships with those two companies weren’t in keeping with our family values, so we said goodbye.
Now, my kids have rediscovered PBS and are totally into The Great British Baking Show and Wild Kratz. And on the occasion that we order from Amazon, things take a lot longer to get here.
Last Train To London, by Meg Waite Clayton, was recommended by my mom and took me back to one of my first loves, historical fiction around the time of World War II.
This book is huge, and it took me a while to get into it. I had to get used to jumping in between the different plot lines that are braided together in the story, and honestly, I’m short on time and get intimidated by huge books. But soon, I couldn’t stop reading.
The Remarkables, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, was sitting in the middle grade section of our library on an open shelf. The teaser phrase on the cover reads, “There’s a mystery next door.”
There was something compelling and a little spooky about the cover art. With a little hesitation, because I don’t like to be spooked, I grabbed it.
It took several weeks to get to – the reading list is so long these days. But it was SO. GOOD.
Our evening streetwalk in Saratoga Springs was easy to write about because it went so well. We got dropped off by the shuttle bus, walked down the wide street on one side, and back up the other. We got back just in time to catch the last shuttle to our parking lot. And the whole thing was really, really fun.
The Troy Stroll was different.
