Nightshade
#16 in the China Bayles series
The Tale of Hawthorn House
#4, Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter
Ed. Susan Albert, Susan Hanson, Jan Seale, Paula Yost: What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest (Southwestern Writers Collection)
An anthology of women's experiences in the Southwest
I just posted a new book review on Amazon: Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan. The easiest way to get to it is on my profile page. By the way, if you're a Story Circle member and would like to join the Story Circle review team, please drop me a note and let me know. Reviewing helps us focus seriously on what we're reading--a good way to get published, too.
I've just posted a review of Gretchen Legler's book On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on Amazon and on the Story Circle book review site. It's a wonderful example of writing about people-in-place. Antarctica is a unique place, because of all the continents, it is the one that humans have not yet succeeded in fully colonizing. It is almost a peopleless place. Almost. That's what this book is about.
Reading note. It had . . . been good to be out alone, walking in Antarctica, feeling that magical, paradoxical diminishment of self and enlargement of spirit that such a landscape brings--that feeling that one is in the presence of something that has been in existence long before you and will continue long after you, into all time; some spirit that is larger and older than the human mind, and that, in its power, comforts rather than terrifies.--Gretchen Legler, On the Ice
