Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wadsworth
Author: Susan Uhlig
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
If there’s a book
It is wise to write on many subjects, to try many themes, that so you may find the right and inspiring one.
Thoreau
It is wise to write
Writing a novel is like a one-armed man trying to hammer together a chicken coop in a hurricane.
William Faulkner
Writing a novel is
Light and Air
Marvelous Middle Grade Monday
Light and Air (Holiday House, 2024) by Mindy Nichols Wendell is fascinating historical novel from 1935 about a disease we don’t worry about much–tuberculosis.
First, Halle’s mother comes down with TB and even though Halle doesn’t have it, classmates are shunning her. When she gets it too, she joins her mother at J. N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital in upstate New York–although they are in separate buildings and can’t see each other. There Halle makes friends and risks sneaking out to see her mother. But when her mother has a lung hemorrhage, could it be Halle’s fault?
This book is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and is the author’s debut novel.
Read about Mindy here. And here’s a link to the inspiration for the book.