Most of the reviews and summaries I’ve seen for Patricia Engel’s The Veins of the Ocean […]
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Young adult literature has changed profoundly over the past century and a bit since Little Women, […]
Crane Pond, by Richard Francis
While I know some of the history of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, Arthur Miller’s The […]
The Changeling, by Victor LaValle
Apollo Kagwa thought he had the perfect life. He’s got his dream job as a […]
Radium Girls, by Kate Moore
Kate Moore’s Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women turned out to be a timely […]
A Square Meal, by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe
Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe’s A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression is much […]
New Boy, by Tracy Chevalier
I think we keep returning to tragedies with the vague hope that this time things […]
Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane
Marriages are odd things when you start to really think about them, especially when the […]
Lilli de Jong, by Janet Benton
Stories about new mothers tend to stop with with the birth and the implication that […]
Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley’s Parnassus on Wheels is a delightful novella about two oddballs who fall in love over […]