Percolations

". . . there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

 Charles Dickens 

BUT,
the percolations which are scheduled to arrive on Monday and Tuesday,
are certainly NOT one of those books!

I know I’ve already told you about A Red Herring …  so I’ll spare you the rhetoric here. I had planned to read this one first, the moment it arrived, but that was before. Now I’m not so sure.

Last year I went to Merry Hall with Beverley Nichols, and I loved our visit so much that I decided to give him another go. Down The Garden Path is the first of Nichols' true (as in non-fiction) magical ramblings about the joys of gardening and the love of a house. But don’t be misled, my little chickadees.  If you think Nichols’ books are only about gardening, you would be very much mistaken indeed.

And now,

let me tell you about these delicious books that I stumbled upon quite by happenstance,

as it were:

Here I am, back into the Young Adult section with the Bartimaeus Trilogy, and of course the prequel. This is a science fiction fantasy that introduces the reader to a 5000 year old djinni, namely Bartimaeus, who is summoned-up through magical powers, by Nathanial, a boy magician-in-training.

I’ve familiarized myself with this trilogy enough to know that Bartimaeus is hilarious, with dry asides that spill into copious footnotes throughout. This is a sophisticated tome, more for the adult than for the young. Or so I’ve read.

In Islamic folklore, djinni is a spirit that can take on various human and animal forms and makes mischievous use of its supernatural powers.

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