Somewhere in the middle of the doors closing at Island Books, the never ending stream of online and email orders and the trying to figure out exactly how we were going to keep getting books into the hands of our customers, Madeleine L’Engle’s posthumously released collection of short stories, The Moment of Tenderness came into the store. I saw it on the cart, its cover lovely and speckled with stars, and immediately purchased a copy for myself. My plan has been to read one story every day. I don’t have the best relationship with short stories... continued.
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