The Bride of Northanger: An Austen Variation

The very beginning of The Bride of Northanger, by Diana Birchell, has Henry Tilney admitting to his bride that actually, yes,…

Planting Wolves

Planting Wolves, by Neda Disney, is a collection of linked short stories. "Planting wolves" refers to releasing small groups of…

Home Truths

I got Home Truths from Kindle First Reads.  (If you're a reader at all, you should check this out. It's…

Past Imperfect

I really enjoyed Julian Fellowes' Snobs, a drily observational manners novel in which a marchioness sticks to her childhood nickname…

My Sister, The Serial Killer

I read Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, The Serial Killer in one sitting, partly because it's short but mostly because of…