This is my symphony

What I read & what I lived …

As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust (DRC) Alan Bradley Delacorte Press Release date: January 6, 2015 If you haven’t caught Flavia fever by now, you’re missing out on something special. Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is a chemist prodigy-turned-sleuth who has solved any number of thefts, murders, and kidnappings in her six previous adventures.  At the …

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We are all completely beside ourselves Karen Joy Fowler Until she was five, Rosemary Cooke had a sister. Fern, her almost-twin. The two girls were inseparable: they jumped and sang and cuddled and competed for attention. They were joined at the heart with a love that was bigger than even they knew at the time. …

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The Little Way of Ruthie Leming (NetGalley) Rob Dreher release date: April 9, 2013 “When a community loses its memory, its members no longer know one another,” writes the agrarian essayist Wendell Berry. “How can they know one another if they have forgotten or have never learned one another’s stories? If they do not know one another’s …

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