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[angela_o]

Quick book update.

#42 Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher. The latest intallment in the Harry Dresden universe. More magical mayhem in Chicago with a war in Faerie thrown in for good measure. Not quite as good as previous books, but still entertaining reading.

#43 is a favorite from my formative years. The Wishing Star by Norma Johnston. A young girl's coming of age story set in a small New England town at the turn of the century. I haven't reread this one literally in years and I still love it.

Only 7 more to go to fulfill the pledge.

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[emluv.livejournal.com]

Norma Johnston! Loved her when I was a kid. Did you ever read her Keeping Days series? I think there were six of them, about a girl growing up as one of the middle kids in a large family in Yonkers, NY. I loved that the father named the girls and the mother named the boys, so because the father read all sorts of classic literature, the girls had names like Letitia and Bronwyn, while the boys had plain ordinary ones, like Ben and Peter.

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

I think I read a couple of those, but my library as a kid didn't have the complete series. My favorite series was the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace. I ended up collecting all of them in hardbook when I was an adult. The funny thing is that I read Lovelace and Johnston concurrently, but it wasn't until years later that I happened to read the dedication in "The Wishing Star". Johnston dedicated it to Lovelace and called her "my wishing star". I love it when things like that happen. :)