Quintessentially Lord-Peter-ish

2014-03-17T14:05:11-04:00

Returning to an installment in Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series after many years? Never mind: Lord Peter Wimsey is still as Lord-Peter-ish as ever. (I read the previous volumes in the series, and the relevant stories, in 2003 and 2004; it's as though I just put down

Quintessentially Lord-Peter-ish2014-03-17T14:05:11-04:00

The Serial Reader: Intelligent Romances?

2014-03-17T13:54:39-04:00

Catherine Asaro's works are often recommended when this question is raised amongst readers. (Amidst all the debate and kurfufflery, ruffled readers' feathers and bleeding hearts.) When a Harvard PhD writes a series of books commonly reviewed (and awarded gold medals) in Romantic Times, that's what you get. And

The Serial Reader: Intelligent Romances?2014-03-17T13:54:39-04:00

Terrified and Curious: White Horse by Alex Adams

2014-03-17T13:29:27-04:00

That's how Zoe says she feels about a recurring dream that she's been having; she's both terrified by and curious about how it plays out. That's exactly the response that a number of readers will have to White Horse. Alex Adams' debut novel contains a lot of conflicting

Terrified and Curious: White Horse by Alex Adams2014-03-17T13:29:27-04:00

The Guardians of Childhood: Three Volumes

2014-03-17T13:30:16-04:00

Simon & Schuster, 2011 Just as in the Harry Potter stories, the William Joyce tales begin with a younger reader in mind and, then, as the pages turn, both child and story grow. The first volume, The Man in the Moon, scarcely seems to be in the same

The Guardians of Childhood: Three Volumes2014-03-17T13:30:16-04:00

A Glaswegian Tale about Hens and Murder

2014-03-15T19:58:56-04:00

"Crackling with energy, assured and authoritative." So says Val McDermid about Manda Scott's debut suspense novel, Hen's Teeth, the first novel to feature Dr Kellen Stewart. But she might well have been discussing Kellen herself. Indeed, she is the draw to the series, in this reader's opinion; it's Kellen's sharp

A Glaswegian Tale about Hens and Murder2014-03-15T19:58:56-04:00
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