Mostly Historical

Russian Winter

Tuesday's classes were canceled due to snow, which made it a perfect day to stay home, sit at the window,…

5 years ago

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,…

5 years ago

The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests was on my library requests list so long that I forgot who recommended it or why, so…

5 years ago

Tidelands

Do you know how much I wanted to read Philippa Gregory's new novel Tidelands? I requested it on NetGalley, but then…

5 years ago

The Wives of Los Alamos

TaraShea Nesbit’s novel The Wives of Los Alamos is told in first-person plural, and yet it never seems like an…

5 years ago