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Books I Love
The gothic, people-eating house in Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore made me want to re-read York: The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby, with its trickster, quirky house and House of Many Ways by Dianna Wynne Jones, with its mysterious, dusty, infinite house. I loved them both more the second time around. This time I read York more slowly and took the time to appreciate how so many of the characters in this book are anxious in different ways. Tess has a therapy cat and meltdowns. Theo has robot moments and nightmares. Jaime is constantly drawing, which I saw as an artistic outpouring but also a way of dealing with his…