I am so glad that Lewis Carroll wrote back when he did because, I have to say that he would sure get canceled now, and I love these books so much! If you've only seen one of the movies, shame on you! Read the book. I wrote a one-woman play1 once in which the main …
365 Books: Miss Bunting by Angela Thirkell
Once I finished reading the handful of pocket-sized mass markets that I bought when I first discovered Angela Thirkell, I started looking for other volumes in bookstores. This was one of them and became one of my favorites. There are several subplots here: the young woman that Miss Bunting is tutoring, who is growing and …
365 Books: The Yellow Room by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Do these Reddit AITA compilations ever sneak into your newsfeed? They're not news, but sometimes they're fun to read because you can think to yourself, "At least my life isn't that bad!" This book could fit right in there. "AITA: My mother wants me to open our summer house in Maine so my brother can …
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365 Books: Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh
As those of you who have read my posts about Marsh's other books, her detective, Alleyn, sometimes comes off stiff and stuffy, lecturing people and showing off his polysyllabic vocabulary and convoluted sentence structure. I had thought this was a function of experience, that she loosened up, the more books she had written. This book …
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365 Books: The Cherry Blossom Corpse by Robert Barnard
#365Books What do romance writers talk about when they're alone with each other?
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