When thirteen year old Sophie, bored with her life in the summer of 1960 in rural Louisiana, wishes for a magical adventure, a nameless, capricious, ghostly creature sends her 100 years into the past to the year 1860 in Louisiana, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. Sophie gets a lot more adventure than …
Category Archive: 1960
May 07
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
This 123-page novella about a middle-aged widow who opens a bookshop in a seaside village in England felt familiar as I read it, but I must not have been paying proper attention when I read it the first time in May of 2008. I didn’t really remember it, and I was surprised and saddened by …
Feb 07
1960: Events and Inventions
January 1, 1960. French Cameroon becomes an independent country. January 9, 1960. President Nasser lays the foundation stone of the Aswan High Dam as work begins on the engineering marvel on the Nile River in Egypt. March 21, 1960. In the black township of Sharpeville in Transvaal, South Africa, local white police officers open fire …
Feb 24
The Love Letters by Madeleine L’Engle
The Love Letters may be my favorite of Ms. L’Engle’s books. I just re-read it for my Semicolon Book Club, and it did not disappoint. I did notice a few new things this time. (I hadn’t read the book in several years.) The story takes place in two time periods: a 1960′s present and 17th …
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