The coming-of-age novel… the fascination ever beckons. What makes up the allure? Is it nostalgia? Is it gratitude for being years away from the vicissitudes […]
Recently Read
Who wants to be thematic all the time? Not this blogger! I have recently read three books that have absolutely nothing to do with one […]
Jane Eyre Spin-offs
Looks to me as if our favorite Gothic governess, Jane Eyre, is decidedly in the spotlight in new fiction. A spotlight doesn’t do much for […]
Not a How-to Manual
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 […]
