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 […]
Centennial 100: 1916-1926
The other Heights Matchmakers and I wanted to do something special for the centennial celebration, so we’ve come up with the Centennial 100! This […]
Read Harder
I am a big fan of reading challenges. Every year I do the Goodreads Challenge, where you set a goal for how many books […]
Mansfield Park: Hero and Villain
Get a crowd of Jane Austen fans together, and bring up her 1814 novel Mansfield Park. Watch the reaction! Glory in the conflicting opinions! Mansfield Park […]
The Mystery of the Blue Train
There’s always a certain aura of glamour about Golden Age detective novels. Agatha Christie’s The Mystery of the Blue Train features the elements of her greatest plots: […]
Before There Was YA
Judging by the shelves upon shelves filling our libraries’ teen rooms, you’d think that the “YA” or “teen” genre has been a fixture in literature […]
Black Lives Matter
To celebrate Black History Month, Matchmakers tweeted a recommendation for each weekday using the eight-word review model. If you’re not on Twitter, you can read […]
Highly Prolific
Say what you want about writer/actor/director Woody Allen, but there is one thing I’m sure we can all agree on: he is highly prolific. And when […]
30 Day Book Challenge: Day 29 — A Book Everyone Hated but You Liked
This is a really hard one to answer. Usually people are talking about the books they really liked, not the ones they hated. Often, if people […]
