When they talk about reading this book, people have a lot to say about misogyny, about agency, about maintaining façades, but not so much about the thing that struck me, something pretty literal about the whole plot as… Read More
Category: Mainstream fiction, Relationship Fiction, Socially engaged fictionTags: Stand-alone
I am usually quite critical of how a favorite book is translated to television or movie form, and in the past I would most likely have favored the book over the visual version almost every time. But in… Read More
Category: Police Procedural, Suspense, ThrillerTags: Appeals, Disconnect, Movie, Series, TV series
The phrase “damning with faint praise” (from a poem by Alexander Pope) keeps coming to mind as I think about the book The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot, by Marianne Cronin. But I think what my reaction… Read More
Category: Realistic Fiction, Relationship FictionTags: Stand-alone
The Book Adept
The Book Adept