Just to be clear, I am not going to include any spoiler warnings for this play, since it’s somewhere between 406-416 years old (sources seem to disagree exactly when it was written). If, for some reason, you’re worried about having major plot points or deaths (there’s a whole bunch, guys) ruined for you, then it’s probably best that you skip this review entirely. So Macbeth or the Scottish play. Despite having English lit as my minor at university, and Scottish history as part of my […]
NTE, you’ve made a Jr. Cannonballer very happy
Thanks to NTE for another delightful box of cannonball goodness. These junior cannonballers aren’t going to know what hit them! joemyjoe will love these — nice work picking out for a 9 year old!!!
The Victim’s Name Was Musa
My brother’s name was Musa. He had a name. But he’ll remain ‘the Arab’ forever. Albert Camus’ The Stranger, published in 1942, is a literary classic about one man’s existential crisis. The action of the novel takes place in Algeria under French colonial rule and the narrator, Meursault, is a Frenchman who has murdered an Arab. In The Meursault Investigation, Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud imagines the same story as told by the victim’s brother. The result is a powerful and insightful tale of the destructive […]
Imperfect Courtney Milan, Is Still Courtney Milan
Courtney Milan is the best, the very best, romance writer currently publishing, but she is not perfect and Once Upon a Marquess is a delightfully imperfect novel. Her trademark elements – eloquence, unexpected romantic moments, family politics, deciding for oneself who one will be – are here, they just don’t come together quite as successfully as they have in some of her previous efforts. The first book in her new Worth Saga, Milan is laying a lot of groundwork and she is mostly successful in […]
Historical Romance and Visits with Favourite Characters
I have an addition to the Things That Occur to Me While Reading Historical Romance Novels: LUST IS IMPERVIOUS TO COLD. Never mind all those times people in these books get down to their skivvies in drafty old manor houses, lust’s powers are even greater than I supposed. How else could a person wearing a linen shift and corset while standing barefoot in a snow squall be aware of anything than the fact that she is bitterly cold? But I have gotten ahead of myself. […]
A historical romance that seems to forget it was supposed to be romantic
At seventeen, Miss Sophie Baker is looking forward to her debut in society. She’s only a few months away from graduating from a prestigious ladies’ academy and her future looks bright. Then her father dies suddenly, destitute after having been swindled by a con man. Sophie’s whole world changes and instead of a season and balls and pretty dresses, she’s left to fend for herself, making a living as a governess. She blames the Earl of Ashby for her change in circumstance, as it was […]
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