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“Stories aren’t fiction. Stories are fabric. They’re the white sheets we drape over our ghosts so we can see them.”

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

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I’ve loved Sarah Addison Allen’s books since the 2007 Garden Spells (the first of the Waverly family books) and have eagerly been waiting for this one since her last book out was in 2015 (the second Waverly family book). I often recommend her to someone looking for something light and charming, as she typically weaves together magical realism with small-town charm, great for a bit of escapism or some relaxation. This book has a very different tone and while I think it’s a good book, […]

Welcome back, Sarah Addison Allen

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

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Its been a long time between books for Sarah Addison Allen, and it is a pure delight to have her back with a new novel for my sister and I to devour. I’m going to be light on plot, because I don’t want to spoil any of the pleasure of reading it for anybody.  Zoey is moving back to Mallow Island, where she spent time in an apartment block, the Dellawisp, as a child. All SAA books are wildly whimsical, and this is no exception.  […]

Garden Spells

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

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Updated review: September 12, 2022 I really enjoyed this re-read. I didn’t love the second book in the series as much, but this first one still gives me all the feels. Allen does such a great job of depicting the two sisters and I loved all of the people who lived in Bascom and the “gifts” so many had.  Original review: Funny, I love this book, but honestly don’t remember the last time I read it. After finishing “Garden Spells” I went and read book […]

Other Birds

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

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Such a shame. I have been waiting on a new Sarah Addison Allen book for years. I absolutely love her older books and this one just didn’t do it for me. Somehow in her other books she’s always been able to transport me to a fictional town where it seemed magic leaked around the edges. Instead this book seems to be missing that. Maybe because the grief in these pages just crowded out everything else. And I think that due to that I wasn’t able […]

A light and fun read to round out the year

Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen

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As I was looking for the last reads of my completed cannonball, only one more to go after this one (!!!) I wanted something light and fun to enjoy through the holiday season and I was positively delighted to discover I had this unread Sarah Addison Allen delight on my bookshelf. I discovered her early in her career and managed to go to a book event when I was living in Tennessee where I was the last attendee and remember being completely tongue-tied about it […]

“When you’re happy for yourself, it fills you. When you’re happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.”

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

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Throwback Thursday Bingo Square.   Goodreads tells me I first read Garden Spells in 2010.  (Or maybe that’s when I first signed up for Goodreads, who knows?) Either way, it was a while back.  But I’ve been in transition again (in two houses, in different rooms now in each house), so I’ve been moving a lot of my things, packing others up for storage and (painfully) whittling back my bookcases, for space reasons, and the “keeper book” criteria was as stringent as I could manage (which is […]



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