Aiken to be

My latest Astral Weeks is up at the L.A. Times. A good one this month—Joan Aiken's The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories:

In "The Serial Garden," Mark reads on the package: "In case of difficulty in obtaining supplies, please write to Fruhstucksgeschirrziegelsteinindustrie (Great Britain), Lily Road, Shepherds Bush."

For the Invisible Library

"He had lived in the house for three hundred years, ever since his death, in fact, and was thought to be writing his autobiography, though as it was invisible no one had read it."
—Joan Aiken, "Tea at Ravensburgh"