Carrie at Mommy Brain reviews The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan. I thought I had this book on The List; I remember seeing it at Barnes and Noble. Anyway, I’m adding it. I could use a story of courage and perseverance right about now.

Kathryn Judson, bookseller extraordinaire, recommends the out-of-print YA title, To Fight in Silence by Eva-Lis Wuorio. She says it’s set in Denmark during WW II, and it’s about two cousins who join the Danish underground.

Steven Riddle is writing about Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Sulky Girl. He says it’s the second in the series of Perry Mason novels; the first one, The Case of the Velvet Claws isn’t in print, according to Mr. Riddle. I wrote about Gardner here, but Mr. Riddle does a much more thorough review of this particular mystery and and a better introduction to the series.

SFP at pages turned is trying to entice (encourage?) other readers to revisit Moby Dick as she did. No, thanks, once is enough. After reading an entire chapter on “the whiteness of the whale” I remember to this day that the whale is very, very white. But I’m glad someone’s enjoying it. Melville as quoted at pages turned: “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, thought many there be who have tried it. So he chose the Great (Very) White Whale.

Cindy at Dominion Family has an overview of the latest in Christian fiction from a well-known-discounter-of-Christian-books-which-shall-remain-nameless, at least on my blog. The excerpts from someone’s most recent catalog will either make you laugh or cry or both.