I’m sorry I wasn’t able to get this put up yesterday. I’m blaming the holiday (but just between you and me, it had much more to do with me just not wanting to write *sheepish grin*).
Our library put on a reading program recently and Lucy, Michael, and I all got to choose a free book as a prize. I recognized The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. I had heard of it before, though I didn’t know much about it, and I had read Miss Speare’s other books, The Bronze Bow*, Calico Captive, and The Sign of the Beaver. None of the other books the library had to choose from looked promising, so I picked it up.
I probably wouldn’t have read this book otherwise, but it I’m so glad I did; I very much enjoyed it! There were several things that I worried about during the middle–nothing that I thought was bad, just things that tend to make me dislike books–but Miss Speare resolved them quite well. I felt perfectly at peace at the end of the book. I did find it rather predictable; I don’t know if that’s because I had read all of Miss Speare’s other books, or if it was just predictable. I know that might bother some people, but I didn’t mind it–though I don’t usually mind when I know how something ends!