Maybe you know Phoebe Atwood Taylor from her Asey Mayo mysteries (which I will cover some other time). But she also had another writing career as Alice Tilton, author of Leonidas Witherall Mysteries. Sometimes mystery authors carry on two series at the same time, under different pen-names, with very different styles. Charlotte McLeod had her …
Continue reading 365 Books: Cold Steal by Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Alice Tilton
I love Sarah Caudwell's books but I always feel a little sad when I read them, as hilarious as they are. Because there are four and there will be no more. Ever. Caudwell's books focus on a bunch of yuppie British tax lawyers. The beautiful and perfect Serena. The sexy and irrepressible Julia. The unattainable …
Continue reading 365 Books: Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
Ah, back to mysteries. I'm trying to pace myself here, I promise you. I just own a lot of mysteries, so they're going to keep showing up in my posts. Have you ever read any Edmund Crispin? He was a British writer, who wrote during the golden age. His detective, Gervase Fen, is an Oxford …
Continue reading 365 Books: Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin
I think I was drawn to this book initially by the cover: a photo of someone holding a pile of books that towers so high above them that it threatens to crush them. That's my kind of cover illustration! A.J. Jacobs books always kind of start the same way: he gets a crazy idea. In …
I bought this book while I was in college and it inspired a paper that I wrote for a history class on the politics of textbooks and the representation of Native Americans in elementary school textbooks.* It was a sweeping paper, covering textbooks from colonial America through the present, and I spent many hours in …
Continue reading 365 Books: America Revised by Francis FitzGerald
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