Recently I found myself finishing my last book. With no more library books waiting for me, I browsed through the free Kindle books I’d found on Amazon months ago. Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country (1913) stuck out. I’ve always been incredibly impressed by Edith Wharton’s writing, and I almost immediately started reading. I’m kind of ashamed by how long I let this classic languish on my Kindle while I’ve been distracted by the new and the shiny. To be honest, when I began […]
Claire and Jamie grow up
Voyager (1994) is Diana Gabaldon’s third book in her Outlander series with Claire and Jamie. I flew through Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber even as I realized they had some problems, but this one finally slowed me down. I started reading it back in December and skipped around to many other books while I was pushing through it. Like all of Gabaldon’s books, a lot happens in this one. For all intents and purposes, it is impossible to review Voyager without spoilers to the first […]
The puppy was cute
I enjoyed my first Tessa Dare novel, A Week to be Wicked, so I figured I’d give Dare’s next novel in the series a try: A Lady by Midnight (2012). I’d already been introduced to the main characters in the previous novel. Kate Taylor is an orphan of unknown origins, raised in a strict school for ladies. Having been educated in the art of music at school, Kate earns a respectable living teaching music to students at Spindle Cove. Corporal Thorne has had more than […]
Men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them
It’s not every day that I hear about an almost twenty-year-old book from both Mrs. Julien and Amy Poehler. Yet that’s how I came to learn about The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker. I’m pretty sure Mrs. Julien mentioned it in an offhand manner in a comment at some point. And then Amy Poehler cited it as her most-quoted reading material in Yes, Please. I didn’t realize it was written way back in 1997 until I went and found the book at the […]
Learning About Prison the Best Way–Vicariously
I watched only a bit of Orange is the New Black on television before I lost interest. I couldn’t connect with the main character, and I found the storyline a little troubling. I couldn’t understand why we needed a rich, white woman to tell us about prison, and the humor of it hit me the wrong way. But the show continued to grow in popularity, and I continued hearing about it. And then I noticed the book, Orange is the New Black (2010) by Piper […]
You’ll never fail like common people, you’ll never watch your life slide out of view
“Here is how I have felt, as me: as a relatively young person who is perceived as white, who is naturally sociable, who is intelligent and well-spoken, who was taught well and as a result loves learning things, who is able to lift objects up to fifty pounds repeatedly. And many times, with all that going for me, I still saw no hope. I cannot begin to imagine how much harder it is for someone who faces more discrimination than I have or grew up […]
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