I believe in the morning light

Photos! I have pared down my travel photos mightily, but still there are many, many photos to post; so today I will start with pictures of the morning sunshine.

First, a photo of the famous window seat: ( Photo )

Second, the morning sunshine lighting up the smoke.

( It glows )

35. Flygirl (and Beauty and The Ramsay Scallop)

I actually wrote these reviews before I headed off into the wilderness, and it’s interesting looking back on them. I tend to write my book reviews soon after I’ve finished reading, which has obvious advantages, but also means that I don’t usually know how the book is going to sit with me: there are books that grow on me over time, like Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me, and books that I enjoyed immensely but remember poorly, like Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls series.

I liked all these books when I first read them, but the only one that stayed in my mind rather than drifting away is Sherri L. Smith’s Flygirl. And the one book that I read before the trip that really stuck with me, Rumer Godden’s An Episode of Sparrows, I didn’t even write a review for - because I didn’t realize it would. I suppose I ought to rectify that...

( Robin McKinley’s Beauty )

( Frances Temple’s The Ramsay Scallop )

( Sherri L. Smith’s Flygirl )