Spiderweb For Two
A Melendy Maze

I've loved this author's book Then There Were Five for many years; it's a charming, old-fashioned tale of four siblings who live in a country home, during WWII. One of my GR friends alerted me to this 1951 sequel, which I had never heard of before, but luckily for me my local library had a copy. In t......more

And now there were two. . . Just Randy and Oliver are left at home now that school has started again. All the older Melendy siblings (including newly adopted Mark) are out in the world pursuing their gifts. With such a long time before Thanksgiving holidays, the two left behind are thrilled to find......more

I thought Elizabeth Enright could not keep up such good writing and storytelling over four books but I was wrong. This book was really engaging with a mystery to solve with clues and all the usual poetic details of seasonal nature, family dynamics, memories and humour we have grown to love in the Me......more

Unlike the rest of the Melendy Quartet, this one's not really about the whole family: summer has ended, the older boys (Rush and Mark, who's an adopted Melendy now) are away at boarding school, and Mona is living in the city, where she's staying with Mrs. Oliphant, a family friend, and going to scho......more

I've been listening to this gem while working in the garden, and I must say that Enright and gardens are a simply brilliant pairing. Nothing like being eyeball deep in daffodils and hearing Randy explain that flowers in the woods are white, while flowers in the fields are generally yellow. This is p......more