Three women meet in college and stay friends for the next twenty years. That’s a plot line that could go a bunch of predictable ways: […]
Genre Spotlight: Fantasy and Historical Mystery
It’s springtime, it’s raining, and I’m filling up an ark with two of every kind… it’s a book ark, and my first two sets of […]
The Dark, Dark Wood
In the dark, dark wood, there was a dark, dark tower. In the dark, dark tower there was a dark, dark tomb. In the dark, […]
More Sherlock Holmes, Please!
You don’t need me to tell you that there are so, so many Sherlock Holmes spin-offs out there, in books and in movies and in […]
Comfort Reading
It’s mid-February, which for me is the season of comfort reading. Comfort reading is when I return to my truly beloved books, the ones I’ve […]
Dark, Deep, and Dystopian
The best kind of sci-fi, in my opinion, is the kind in which it’s clear that the author is looking at a current technology and […]
What is Love? Impassioned, impetuous, or merely… Improbable?
Is a famous painting worth more because it costs more? Does a work of art have an intrinsic value that owes nothing to the avidity […]
Andrea’s Best Books: 2015
Ah, the “best” lists in social media. So, so many. So, so few parameters defined. Let’s change that up. Books on this list are fiction […]
Girl Waits With Gun
It’s a dark street corner in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1914. A young woman, wearing a dark coat and carrying a sensible leather handbag, waits […]
