The Good News Review Debut (Anew…Achoo)

It is a gorgeous, heart-lifting day here in the not-so-wild midwest. Today I stood in the kitchen, stirring oatmeal to the familiar sound of a spring dove somewhere in the yard making its lilting, melancholy call as the sun shone down all dappled through the blinds, and I can’t say I can think of many better ways to start a day. I am aching for flowers. I invoke tulips, I beg for crocuses, I dream of narcissus – come come come come come! If it weren’t a tad chilly still ’round these parts, with a layer of snow still lurking in the colder spots and snowstorms still occasionally rushing in to make a March delivery, I’d have run outside to do an impromptu flower-invoking dance in front of the bulb garden this morning. I caught five robins doing such a dance only just a few days ago, even among the fresh-fallen snow and the grey skies.

Lo, everything’s coming up New. And Good. Good New! Sounds like my kind of thing. Thus, a new feature here at Pagan Godspell, in honor of the Season of Good New – The Pagan Godspell Book Review Series. As you may recall, I have a slight thingy for the written word in the form of handy rectangular bound boxes of paper (as my mentor, Saint Cranky Bookstore Guy from The NeverEnding Story might say: “They make no bee-bee-bee-beeps”).

Thus, for today’s first offering, I can think of no better place to begin than with The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, which is arguably my favorite novel of all time. Full review after the jump.