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Aug

13

2015

A Test of Wills

A Test of Wills by Charles Todd

A good friend introduced me to Charles Todd, a mother and son writing team. They live on the East Coast of the United States. I cannot imagine how difficult a task that might be but they pull it off in the final product. I just finished reading A Test of Wills (published in 1996), which is …

Nov

8

2013

4

remarks

Amanda MacNaughton

Literary Ramblings in England

As I write this, it’s November 5, and it’s raining.  These two things together make me think of England. I spent ten weeks in Britain in college, on a school literary trip abroad with twenty-odd other students, chaperoned by our literature professor and his wife. The purpose was to put us inside the literature we studied …

Apr

9

2013

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce

“This is my favorite book so far this year. Retired, proper Englishman Harold Fry gets a letter from an old acquaintance saying she has cancer.  He struggles to write a reply. Then he struggles to mail his reply, so he just walks across England to hand deliver his letter. While  Harold is walking he has …

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