Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

I decided not to wait until next Tuesday to report on this book. Because there I was, forlorn because my Harry Potter still hadn’t shown up in the mail, and I had all these errands to run and some waiting rooms to sit in, and that just calls for a book.

So I picked out Sarah Miller’s Miss Spitfire, the story of Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller’s first few months together, and it’s a mark of how wonderful the book is that even though my Harry did finally arrive later that day, I continued reading Miss Spitfire through all the way to the end because I was so absorbed.

I can’t believe this is Sarah Miller’s first novel. SO well-written, so compelling–I mean, you think you already know this story, right? We’ve all seen The Miracle Worker. But to read a novel told from Annie’s point of view–it’s just so moving, and so illuminating, and gush, gush, gush, I just loved it.

I know all of our TBR piles are completely ridiculous by this point in the year, but you have to make room for this book. I feel as strongly about it as I did about Austenland, even though the two couldn’t be more different.

But now I’m all Harry’s . . .

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Posted on Thursday, July 26th, 2007 at 5:01 am under Reading . Subscribe to responses: RSS 2.0 Comment Feed. . Comment, or trackback.