Gathering Light
DominikaReflections on books both wise and winsome.
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Never No More by Maura Laverty (1942)
Never No More by Maura Laverty is, I think, a perfect book. Perfect for any mood, for any time of the year, and for any time of life. It’s wise on human nature and funny on man’s foibles. It’s comforting without being twee. It’s earnest and...
The Top Ten Novels I Read in 2025
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I took a long digital break, sat on my parents’ back porch and did two one-thousand piece puzzles with my sister while listening to cows moo in the next field over (we did this puzzle and this one—h...
Some Things of Note, November 2025
Before I dive in, I want to make sure email-only readers are aware that I started a second(!) newsletter devoted only to children’s literature: Kid Book Bonanza. I know some readers are just here for the 20th century fiction for grownups an...
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban (1975)
The best book I’ve read this year might be Russell Hoban’s picture book How Tom Beat Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen of which fellow PB author extraordinaire, Allan Ahlberg, rightfully said, “Best words, best pictures, best book.” It...
On conducting a parasocial relationship with a dead author
Someone once paid me the compliment of being a generous reader. Obsessive would be a better term, since what they meant was that when I fall in love with a book, I’m not content to read it and move on to something else. I want to read every...
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