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Month: November 2021

  • A story about kids for adults

    Western author Louis L’Amour, wrote a really fine book with two children as the protagonists. “Down the Long Hills,” published in 1968, won a Golden Spur award and I don’t know how his publisher marketed this book, but the cover design is more classic western than middle-grade reader. I stumbled on it in the 1980s…

  • Mystery writers and Delphi Greece

    Author Helen MacInnes: “Decision at Delphi,” published in 1960. I’m about halfway into this book, and it is very dense with people and plot. It’s also really interesting how she and her contemporary Mary Stewart (“My Brother Michael,” also set in Greece, also published in 1960) were so influenced by World War II. That war…

  • The missing years

    I really haven’t just been lying around with the lovely Kate on my lap for the last eight years, although that would have been a worthy use of my time. Nope. Quit my newspapering job. Got hired to help a Eugene nonprofit expand its mission around the country. Got divorced. Got married. Remodeled a house.…