Currently reading
A London Family, 1870-1900: A Trilogy
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
All the Names
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Down the Garden Path
Virtue Betray'd, Or, Anna Bullen
Year of Wonders
Swallows and Amazons
Illusion in java
Eager is the first to admit that he modeled himself on E. Nesbit, and it shows. Like Nesbit, Eager creates child characters who are quite real (not simpering goody-two-shoeses) and sets up magic adventures in which the wishes granted never quite work out the way they were planned. I enjoyed this book and it was nice to revisit the "Half Magic" characters of my childhood.