Mystery: Max Wirestone

Meet Dahlia Moss, who is not a detective, okay?  She just happens to be around crimes and murders and arrests a lot. Dahlia is the […]

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Short Stories: Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively’s delightful new collection of short stories, published earlier this year, is called The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories (Overdrive Ebook). This prompted me […]

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Historical Fiction: Emily Hauser

Have you read The Iliad lately? Nope, I haven’t either. I’ll just go ahead and mention that The Iliad is Homer’s big Greek epic poem with the judgment of […]

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Genre Mash-Up: Theodora Goss

Hang on to your hats, readers! Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Horror, Historical Fiction…here’s a genre mash-up for you! And it’s also a debut! Dooby-dooby-doo… Take a […]

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Psychological Fiction: Claire Messud

Some library cataloger somewhere assigned the subject heading “Psychological fiction” to the library catalog record for Claire Messud’s novel The Woman Upstairs. What does that even mean, […]

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