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Posted by: David Bunch

Thanks to Executive Editor Kent Curry for the book recommendation. Sounds like it has all of the elements of greatness: spirituality, poetry, intellectual stimulation, soul nourishment.

My book news today is not quite as heady and spiritual as Kent's, but promises to be fun nonetheless.

Peter Pan is on his way back! Here is The New York Times review of the first authorized sequel to J. M. Barrie's well renowned novel.

“Peter Pan in Scarlet” takes place in 1926, more than 20 years after Barrie’s play was first produced on the London stage. The Lost Boys are the Old Boys, and they and Wendy Darling have grown up. Wendy is a wife and mother, something of an artistic dilettante who writes poetry. Nana, the nursemaid dog, is dead, though one of her descendants lives. Meanwhile the group is troubled by strange dreams that have been leaking out of Neverland.

Come to think of it, I have never read Peter Pan. I've seen the cartoon of course, but never read the book. With the sequel's imminent release, I'm thinking a quick read through of the original followed by the sequel would be great reading for the fall and over the holidays.