Attention, all Laurie Colwin fans! There’s a new writer in the house, a writer who captures New York City upper-class family life in a comic […]
Twentieth-Century Classics: Stella Gibbons
I tell everyone I know to read Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm. And when I recommend it, I try to remember to mention that you […]
The Perfect Winter Read
Winter weather has arrived in Northeast Ohio, and what better way to spend a winter’s day than curled up with a good book? Katherine Arden’s […]
Not Literally Swans
Gossip and glamour, fashion and extravagance…. this is the world of mid-twentieth-century New York City that Melanie Benjamin creates so well in her novel, The Swans […]
Politics in Fiction: Riveting Election Season Reads
Nobody knows better than those of us who live in Ohio that general election season is in full swing. Why not try a novel with […]
Bright Young People
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 […]