This was the first novel that my son and I read together.  It was so much more than I was expecting.
It was sweet, and funny.  Highly endearing.  Some of it was a bit heavy for my four year old, but it was chosen because it’s about a little girl and a dog.  In the end, […]

I absolutely loved this. There is quite a lot of controversy linked with this story, and what was really happening. Was their really evil? Was the Governess mad?
The end is rather inconclusive and leaves the reader to decide for themselves.
I thought it was very compelling and well written. James did a […]

There is some stunning description in this book, but overall, the story left me a bit, “meh”.

“Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificient parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces–though I cannot tell why this was […]

There isn’t much to be said about this.