Post-mortem
I rarely read nonfiction any more. Life has been so fraught for the past few years (escalating to seriously effed up for the final nine months) that my goal for reading is escape from—not analysis of—current events. But… Read More
Learning through fiction
Someone on one of the readers’ pages I frequent on Facebook posted something recently about only wanting to read nonfiction because she “likes to learn while I read.” And it made me think about the fact that I… Read More
And a timely sequel
I previously enthused here about The Merciful Crow, by Margaret Owen, and mentioned how excited I was to move on to the sequel, The Faithless Hawk. I picked that book up this week, and right away discovered two… Read More
Class warfare
I decided to take a break from my pile of new books and re-read something I had previously enjoyed, written by Philippa Gregory.I have to confess that most of her historical fiction featuring the Tudors has bored me… Read More
The Book Adept 