Lady Holland “Holly” Taylor is at her first social engagement in three years, following prolonged mourning for her beloved husband. While waiting for her carriage to take her home, she is pulled into the arms of a stranger (who initially believes her to be someone else, naturally) and kissed passionately. Interestingly, reclusive widow that she is, Holly doesn’t recoil and descend into hysterics or outrage, instead she allows herself to be swept away by the unexpected embrace and kisses the stranger back, not once, but […]
Body Snatching Can be a Problem
London: July 1812. How do you set about solving a murder no one can reveal has been committed? This book begins with the delivery of a dead body to Paul Gibson, retired army surgeon/anatomist . He’s especially anxious about this body, as the young man in question supposedly died in his sleep due to heart failure and Paul is eager to dissect the body to learn more about such a condition. However, upon close examination he discovers that the man didn’t die of natural causes, […]
In which I take another step toward beatific acceptance of my plebian taste
This probably qualifies as another lit-fic fail for me, by which I don’t mean that the book was a failure; I mostly likely just failed to appreciate it. It’s one of those oniony books that has a lot of layers, and characters who relate to each other on levels both appropriate and otherwise. Set in the 1960’s, there’s a story of a young woman who finds out she is of European Jewish descent, and finds herself digging into her history by way of trying to […]
Family Secrets Exposed
I’m thankful that I’ve come to this series late, so that I don’t have to wait in between books! This is book 5 in the series, and like the others, it begins with a murder – this time it’s the Bishop of London found bludgeoned to death in a recently opened crypt. And he’s not the only body there, remains are found of another man dating back to the 1700’s. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called upon once again to look into the mystery. […]
Lost and Found?
When you decide to read a book that is already a popular phenomenon, such as a book with a lengthy stay on the best-seller lists and a Hollywood film adaptation, you often find yourself liking the book or, if not particularly enjoying the work itself at least understanding the aspects that allowed it to become so popular in the first place. For me though, The Lost City of Z falls into a rarer category wherein I at least sort of liked it but have no […]
“Everything we’ve gained has been hard-won by a woman who was willing to be bad in the best sense of the word.”
Bad Girls Throughout History is a beautifully illustrated book with brief histories of a hundred women who paved the way for today’s modern woman. Shen begins with Lillith and ends with Malala Yousafzai sprinkling activists, actresses, scientists and spies throughout history as she goes. To be a bad girl is to break any socially accepted rule. For some women, it’s the way they dress. For other girls, it’s the act of going to school. At one point, it was fighting for the right to vote. The […]
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