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I’m usually iffy about books where a writer borrows another author’s characters for his/her own purposes, but I absolutely loved this. You must imagine a world in which the March family was a real one and Little Women has never been written. The book begins with a letter headed ‘Plumstead, October 1888’, in which Jo March writes to her sister Amy announcing the birth of a daughter, Josephine, to be known as Cissie. Fast forward to present day Islington and the Atwater family: English father David, American mother Fee and three daughters in their twenties. These girls, it turns out, are the great great granddaughters of Jo March/Bhaer.
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Last Saturday, I called in at the library when I was in town and, as so often happens, came out without a book. I take my little notebook (see above) containing lists of authors I’m on the lookout for, but fail to find any of their books. I can only get books by ordering them specially or by a great piece of luck. For some perverse reason, I usually trust to luck. Perhaps I get more pleasure from a serendipitous discovery. Now I’ve found a new way to borrow books, via The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. Since Amazon emails me every day with offers of items I don’t want to buy, such as plasma TVs, I don’t understand why I wasn’t alerted to this service. Here’s how it works. You return the book via Manage My Kindle. Just go to Your Kindle Library, find the borrowed book, click on ‘actions’ and ‘return this book’ is one of the options. Then you can borrow another. So what was the first book loan I tried?
( Shrinking Violet by Karina Lickorish Quinn )