![]() ![]() ![]() The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting was the first chapter book I ever read on my own. They were gentle, humorous stories about an English country doctor in Victorian times who learned to talk to animals and had extraordinary adventures. During his last years, he had a house right here in Topanga, where Lofting died in 1947, and where the final two Doctor Dolittle books were completed with the help of his sister-in-law, Topanga resident and respected ballerina Olga Fricker. Lofting was a British citizen, but he spent most of his life in America, where he wrote all of his books. The resourceful, kind, and optimistic Doctor Dolittle sets out for adventure with his animal companions in this illustration from the Newbery Award-winning 1922 book The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, drawn by the author, Hugh Lofting, who illustrated almost all of his own books. ![]()
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In “Big Driver”, a mystery writer is brutally assaulted by a stranger along a Massachusetts back road and plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. ![]() In “1922,” a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. ![]() ![]() “The pages practically turn themselves” ( USA TODAY) in Full Dark, No Stars, an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, four “disturbing, fascinating” ( The Washington Post) novellas-including the story “1922,” a Netflix original film-that explore the dark side of human nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (EE ottoman, I volunteer to be a beta reader any time you need one!) P41 ".as if for conformation." should be ".as if for confirmation." Maybe, "The house they finally pulled up to was huge, white, and new-looking, surrounded by a gate and a fence." or ".a gated fence"? P40 "The house they finally pulled up to was huge, white, and new-looking, surrounded by a gate." doesn't sound right. P23 "While some geeks wear sweater vest." should be "While some geeks wear sweater vests." P23 "I think you're logic is faulty." should be "I think your logic is faulty." I'd have written it: ".t-shirt with a button-up shirt open over it, a much-worn leather jacket over that, and her black cowboy hat firmly on her head." P16 ".t-shirt with a button-up shirt open over it a much-worn leather jacket over that and her black cowboy hat firmly on her head." was really hard to read on first pass. The chance to read a new novel is reward aplenty! I'm not receiving (nor will I expect to receive or accept) remuneration for this review. This is a "galley" copy ebook, supplied by Net Galley. DISCLOSURE: Unlike the majority of reviews in this blog, I've neither bought this book nor borrowed it from the library. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We can tear up over the great injustice being done to those poor black people down there by those ignorant white folks back then. The fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, in which the case unfolds is drawn so well-so lovingly, despite the unsparing revelation of its hideous racial sentiments-that when you get to the parts touching on race they can come across as being specifically about racism in the American south at that time. In ther early going, you could question whether the novel is about racism to any great extent at all. In fact, blacks as a whole are invisible for most of the first half of To Kill a Mockingbird. The trial of a black man, Tom Robinson, on a spurious charge of rape, for which the novel is famous, does not become a focus of the plot until about midway. Anyone reading Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time may be surprised to find it is not entirely about racism. ![]() |