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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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: […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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