What do Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Zane Grey, and Edgar Allan Poe all have in common? They’re all authors who have some or most of their output in… Public Domain Novels
Murder in an Irish Village
“Murder in an Irish Village,” by Carlene O’Connor. Copyright 2016, Kensington Books (334 pages, $25.00). If you’re looking for a bit of Irish charm to accompany your St. Patrick Day’s… Murder in an Irish Village
Meg and Jo
Meg and Jo by Virginia Kantra. New York: Berkley, 2019, 390 pages. Since Louisa May Alcott first published Little Women in 1868, the novel has been retold many times. The… Meg and Jo
The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. Young Theo and his mother duck into the museum on a rainy day while waiting for a… The Goldfinch
Storytelling With Pictures
Storytelling with Pictures: Graphic Novel Memoirs Comics have been a great medium for storytelling, ever since Superman first appeared on the pages of Action Comics. As time has progressed, authors… Storytelling With Pictures
How Dare the Sun Rise
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringyimana. New York, NY: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers. Copyright 2017. Sandra Uwiringyimanawas 10 years old when… How Dare the Sun Rise
The Memory Police
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder, Pantheon Books, 2019. On an unnamed island, things are disappearing at the discretion of a fascist government. Once… The Memory Police
Worn on this Day
“Worn on This Day: The Clothes That Made History” by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2019. 324 pages. $28 Hardcover; $14.99 Kindle Jackie Kennedy’s little pink suit splotched with the… Worn on this Day
Fashionopolis
“Fashionopolis” by Dana Thomas. New York: Penguin Press. Copyright 2019. “What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental question we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are… Fashionopolis
Romance Round-Up
Romance novels are often promptly discarded by would-be readers for preconceived notions of bad writing and that they are nothing more than saccharine stories of women whose sole life purpose… Romance Round-Up