Young adult literature has changed profoundly over the past century and a bit since Little Women, […]
Lilli de Jong, by Janet Benton
Stories about new mothers tend to stop with with the birth and the implication that […]
The Zoo, by Isobel Charman
Reader, I skimmed this book. Isobel Charman’s The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the […]
The Same Old Story, by Ivan Goncharov
I used to joke that prozac, if invented before 1800, would have wiped out the […]
The Girl from Rawblood, by Catriona Ward
Some families describe their histories as haunted due to wars, famines, and other traumas. But […]
The Wages of Sin, by Kaite Welsh
It seems like everything is against Sarah Gilchrist in The Wages of Sin, by Kaite […]
Mister Memory, by Marcus Sedgwick
Most of us wish we had better memories. It would be nice not to blank […]
A Man of Genius, by Janet Todd
I was immediately intrigued by the description of A Man of Genius, by Janet Todd: Gothic […]
Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens
Like many of his other books, Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit is about the (eventual) triumph of good […]
Bodies of Water, by V.H. Leslie
V.H. Leslie’s short novella, Bodies of Water, is perfect for feminist reading. In addition to the […]