For the last few days, I’ve been working on my book list from 2024, which I’ll post any day now. I’m just now noticing how much of last year’s reading was all about dictators, genocides, and gulags. It was not intentional, but most of my 2024 reading was a gosh-darn prep course for the Year of Our Lord 2025. But Margery Sharp, my Author of the Year for 2024, is an absolute delight; or rather, she was - she died quite a few years ago. Margery Sharp is probably best known as the author of the children’s book The Rescuers, which I loved (loved the 1970s Disney movie, too), but she also wrote many charming, lighthearted comic novels for adults. I read four of them last year:
I can’t tell you how much I loved these books, especially the last two. I’ve only scratched the surface of Margery Sharp’s considerable output, and I’ll revisit her again this year when I need a break from (gesturing wildly at everything) all of this. Margery Sharp is my Author of the Year for 2024.
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