by Lanier Ivester | Oct 14, 2010 | Book Reviews, Essays, Journal Entries
It’s easy to forget—or perhaps never fully realize in the first place—just what a treasure we hold in our hands in the form of a book. In times not too far past, books were solely the possession of the wealthy. As recently as the publication dates of many of my...
by Lanier Ivester | Oct 5, 2010 | Author Reviews, Book Reviews
At the gentle (and brilliant) suggestion of a reader, I have decided to act upon a notion I had back in the summer, before I even opened the Bookshop at Lanier’s Books, namely, a series of proper introductions to the authors and titles you will find on my...
by Lanier Ivester | Aug 25, 2010 | Book Reviews
George Macdonald was the grandfather of us all. ~Madeleine L’Engle Ten pages into George MacDonald’s Lilith I was thoroughly entranced—there’s nothing like a memory-haunted library and a mysterious visitant and secret doors to get this girl to sit up and take...
by Lanier Ivester | Aug 16, 2010 | Book Reviews
Quite candidly, I didn’t get the big idea. A slim volume with an address for a title. (Albeit a London, address, lending a smidge of credibility.) Nondescript, by an American lady I had never heard of. And yet, Mrs. Downs couldn’t keep it in the store. She was...
by Lanier Ivester | Jul 9, 2010 | Book Reviews
I have been waiting to write this post for a long, long time. It was a deciding factor in the name I chose for this site. It’s been a steadily-brewing desire since the days I sat among the stacks and shelves of Katherine Downs’ shop and learned to love the...
by Lanier Ivester | Jul 8, 2010 | Book Reviews
When a writer has a philosophy like Bess Streeter Aldrich’s, I know I’m in good company. And when Jodi said that The Rim of the Prairie was her favorite of Aldrich’s books, I knew that I was in for a treat. I want to begin this review by saying that one of the...
