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reviewed The Expedition by Bea Uusma

Bea Uusma: The Expedition (2014, Head of Zeus)

11 July, 1897. Three men set out in a hydrogen balloon bound for the North …

Obsession & folly

A strange and fun (and short!) recounting of the author’s obsession with a failed polar expedition a century before.

The ebook’s formatting makes parts of it very difficult to read on an epaper tablet - this is probably better on a regular screen or real paper.

started reading Magic by the lake by Edward Eager

Edward Eager: Magic by the lake (1985, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

On a vacation, four children find themselves with an entire lake full of magic, which …

An AI book recommender (en.app) confidently identified this as a dimly-remembered book from my childhood, pointing out the specific details from my request that exactly matched this book. None of those details actually occur in this book at all, but it is a pretty fun read and I might check out the others in the series.