![]() The books are probably a surprise to precisely no one. I dry herbs for traditional tisanes and remedies, like another character. ![]() ![]() Beautiful tools of all kinds, as if someone had made wonderful things here.”Īnd here (Exhibits B, C, and D) are a few photos of my house: My husband is a luthier, like a character in the story. ![]() “On one wall: shelves of books in all colors and sizes, like the keys of a new instrument I wanted badly to play… Hanging from the roof: dozens of faded bouquets dangling like an upside-down garden… And there was a workbench and a back wall hung all over with tools that my father would have cried to see. I have absolutely no knowledge go Lauren Work spying on me, yet this is a description from her story: But when I looked back on my year’s reading, Echo Mountain kept standing out.īefore I get to the review proper, let me just share a weird coincidence. Even having read fewer of them, I was impressed with this year’s calibre. I know–there have been a lot of excellent books published in 2020. Lauren Wolk’s Echo Mountain is beautiful and gorgeous and good, and it deserves all the shiny medals. I haven’t read enough new books in 2021 to make a serious Newbery prediction–and yet… I’m going to anyway. ![]()
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