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"Always say yes to new adventures." - Keval Parikh -

The Saturdays

Title: The Saturdays

Author: Elizabeth Enright

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Middle Grade

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    When your Saturday comes, what will you do with it?

    The four Melendy children live with their father and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in a worn, but comfortable, brownstone in New York City. There's thirteen-year-old Mona, who has decided to become an actress; twelve-year-old mischievous Rush; ten-and-a-half-year-old Randy, who loves to dance and paint; and thoughtful Oliver, who is just six. Tired of wasting Saturdays doing nothing but wishing for larger allowances, the four Melendys jump at Randy's idea to start the Independent Saturday Afternoon Adventure Club (I.S.A.A.C.). If they pool their resources and take turns spending the whole amount, they can each have at least one memorable Saturday afternoon of their own. Before long, I.S.A.A.C. is in operation and every Saturday is definitely one to remember.

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“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” – Friedrich Nietzsche –

Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton

Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent

by John Milton

When I consider how my light is spent,

   Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,

   And that one Talent which is death to hide

   Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bent

To serve therewith my Maker, and present

   My true account, lest he returning chide;

   “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?”

   I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent

That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need

   Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best

   Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state

Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed

   And post o’er Land and Ocean without rest:

   They also serve who only stand and wait.”

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“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte ―

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“When you play, never mind who listens to you.” ― Robert Schumann ―

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“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” ― Leonard Bernstein ―