From: maggie_bo at comcast.net <maggie_bo>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:17:40 +0000

All the posts about The Egypt Game remind me of another book by that author, The Velvet Room, that I read many times as a child. I did not discover she'd written other books until I was an adult--I read and enjoyed them all--but The Velvet Room is still far and away my favorite. Nostalgia? Maybe, but it's just delightful. Someone also mentioned The Secret Language--another of my oft-read favorites.

On a side note--I have a daughter who is an unbelievably voracious reader, even more so than I was, but she rarely rereads anything. I wonder if this is simply because it's much easier for her to get hold of new books than it was for me. I still think there's something special about rereading a book multiple times--it really becomes "yours" then, almost part of your psyche. I wonder if re-reading is less common now than it used to be.

Maggie Bokelman SLIS University of Wisconsin graduate
Received on Wed 24 May 2006 05:17:40 PM CDT