Miss Rumphius

"We saw a shadow on your son's lungs," is what they told us. He was ten months old. We were frozen. What could the shadow be? It could be anything. There's a universe of possibilities about that shadow. It could be bad or it could be the end of the world. It was his stomach, it turns out. He had a h......more

Beautiful concept, beautifully rendered. Beautiful.......more

I like this book. It tells the story of Great Aunt Alice known as the Lupine lady. She wanted to travel - very smart and she wanted to live by the sea. He father told her that was very well, but she also needed to do something to make the world a more beautiful place. Her father was amazing he crave......more

You must do something to make the world more beautiful. Alice loved sitting at her grandfather's knee in his house by the sea, listening to tales about travelling to faraway places. When she grew up she would go on travelling adventures and then she would live by the sea. Grandfather gave her a third......more

If my mom had a nickel for every time she read this story to me . . . she'd be a millionaire. That's how much I loved it. I still think it's one of the greatest books ever written, and I wouldn't be the same person I am today without it.......more