I was playing on my Shelfari (the bookshelf on my sidebar) and it suggested one of the Lumby books as a compliment to the Dearest Dorothy books that I was adding. I got them from the library and read them on the way to and from L.A. I can sum them up as thus: they held my attention so much that I didn’t notice any changes of geography.

The books revolve around a town called Lumby that is nestled against the Rockies and my guess is that it’s in Idaho or western Montana. It’s a town of eccentric people (like most Montana towns are) and I loved the interaction of the town with the monastery in the county. The monks were part of all of the books and that made it more interesting.

I definitely recommend the books highly and one of the things that influenced that was that a bevy of my favorite authors were amongst those who wrote comments and reviews.