So….I usually read at least two books at once, sometimes more. I listen to one at all times in the car, and read one, two, or more on paper and/or on Kindle on my phone.
Late last week, I started three books.
Moon Over Manifest (Newbery winner by Clare Vanderpool)
A Year Down Yonder (Newbery winner by Richard Peck)
and
Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik because it’s been on my to-read shelf for several years now.
All three of them are set in 1936, at least at the opening scenes. What’s going on!? Slider’s Son, the novel I’m trying to sell right now, is set in 1936. I picked it because I wanted my story to be before WWII, with Hitler’s threat looming, and I wanted Grant to idolize Bob Feller, the 17-year-old Major League pitcher, and that narrowed my years down to 1936-1937. I wrote the whole book before I realized any of these were set then. Sigh.
I’ve finished Oh My Stars and Moon Over Manifest. Both are good, very, very good. I’ll review Moon Over Manifest soon. I just had to rant first.
I loved Oh My Stars. This may be Lorna Landvik at her finest (so far). I don’t know. It’s hard to beat Patty Jane’s House of Curl for poignancy and humor. This book, though, made me wonder HOW ON EARTH she came up with these characters and story ideas. Patty Jane seemed more possible, plausible for an imagination tied to life, but Oh My Stars–I am baffled and awed by the creativity that brought that book to life! Wow. I hope I get a chance to ask L.L. about it when I see her in 2015 at one of her appearances in Minnesota.
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