Misses

The Candle-Factory Girl

The Candle-Factory Girl was a perfectly pleasant working-class family drama, but including some of the worst historical world-building I've ever…

8 years ago

Listen To The Child

I got Listen to the Child from Hookline with a pitch about how everyone should try to read this book once…

9 years ago

Books I Am Not Reading

I got First Comes Love from NetGalley, but ugh. I mean, I hated The One and Only, because it was…

10 years ago

Karma Gone Bad

I’m predisposed to love expat memoir, but Karma Gone Bad by Jenny Feldon chronicles just how hard is it to…

10 years ago

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet

I have mixed feelings about Colleen McCullough. On one hand, she wrote the well-researched and racy Caesar’s Women and other…

10 years ago