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Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman: Mysteries! Also, I love Now and Then.
Give me all the books about Mysterious People With Mysterious Pasts, please. Especially if someone has died and there are DARK SECRETS AFOOT. Have I made it clear how much I love dark secrets? Maybe...
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Archaeology, Murder, and Giant Ground Sloths: Why am I not reading about...
There are subjects I tend to read books about, and then others I am VERY INTERESTED IN that I don't. This isn't on purpose; I've just realized it's the case. So here're a few:1. TRUE CRIME all the true...
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It's Hard to Finish Books, Y'Know?
It's the last day of August, so let's look at what I've been reading and not finishing for the last couple months:Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans This...
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The Monk Readalong Announcement & Schedule Page
It's not very good! We've been threatening to read it for years! Here it is. October, 2015. It's Matthew Lewis's The Monk Readalong Time.MARK YOUR CALENDARS RIGHT NOW, for I have the readalong...
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Novels the Doctor and River Song Need to Star In
I think we can all agree that Doctor Who is the shit. Yeah, we all mourn the glory days of Donna Noble, and right now Steven Moffat's causing some problems, but still. Don't tell me you don't get...
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Dickens Novels Ranked By What They're Willing to Do for Me
I've read just over half of Dickens's novels/novellas, and if we leave out some of the Christmas ones, here they are, ranked mostly by how much I like the couples in them:1. Bleak House. Bleak House is...
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Webby Weekend: Things Liked and Recommended
Webby Weekend! It's new! Does the name make sense? Don't think about it!The weekend is a time for Netflixing and looking at GIFs. So what's great in that world?:Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of...
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Euphoria by Lily King: Sexy Anthropologists Writing Sexy Anthropology Books...
Euphoria is, according to Lily King, "borrowed from the lives and experiences of [Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson]" but she "told a different story" about them. It's about three...
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The Price of Salt (or "Carol") by Patricia Highsmith: The most progressive...
All right. Gonna sit down and talk about The Price of Salt, also known as Carol, by Patricia Highsmith.Why is this book relevant to you AT ALL? Well, the movie version's about to be released, starring...
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The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel: Adventure! Trains! Canada!
The ever-lovely Emily of As the Crowe Flies and Reads sent me the book The Boundless, because I coveted it due to its kickass cover art. The Boundless is about a train of the same name, SEVEN MILES...
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Empire of Sin: 1900s New Orleans had some SHIT going down
Empire of Sin is about New Orleans from the 1890s to the 1920s. And it's pretty great.IN THIS BOOK, you've got the famed red-light district called Storyville, you've got the beginnings of jazz, you've...
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Illinois League of Women Voters and other things you are totally interested in
Due to my extreme interest and involvement in Frances Willard, I was invited by someone who works with the Frances Willard Historical Association to attend the Illinois League of Women Voters' luncheon...
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Carola Woerishofer: The Socialite Champion of Workers' Rights
Have you ever heard of Carola Woerishofer? Of course you haven't. Because as Americans, we hate hard-to-pronounce names. "My name is Carola Woerishof--""Your name is Katie Samuels, congratulations,...
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Douchey Little Vampire Kids
If, however, you like dressing in black 'cause it's "fun," enjoy putting sparkles on your cheeks and following the occult while avoiding things that are bad for your health, then you are most likely a...
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Classic Male Authors On Their Best Hair Day
1. Mark TwainLook at that. Look at those curly locks. Sure, his later white hair was iconic, but aside from that moustache, dude was looking good back in the day.2. Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel...
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Classic Female Authors On Their Best Hair Day
1. Virginia WoolfI'm pretty sure Virginia Woolf's hair never actually touched her neck. This is the best of the "I think I'll pin it back today" days that she had approximately every day of her life.2....
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Monkalong Reminder
THE MONK IS COMING. This Thursday, to be precise. If you're participating in the readalong and feel like being in on the first post (we really don't care when you start linking up your posts, tbh),...
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Monkalong Part I: I lust for the enjoyment of your person
Who the hell is Matthew Lewis?No no, not him....oh.The author of The Monk (1796) wrote this ridiculous, ridiculous book when he was 19. He also became a member of Parliament the year it came out. He...
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October Book Releases Make Me Want to Cry From an Abundance of Riches
It's October, which means The Month When Everything Gets Published For Some Reason. Is it people going back to school? Settling in for the certainly long winter? WHO KNOWS, but these are all damn...
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Then Comes Marriage by Roberta Kaplan: "I am the Jewish lesbian from New York...
Roberta Kaplan is the lawyer who the LGBT population and its opposition watched unswervingly as she took the case of United States v. Windsor all the way to the Supreme Court in 2013, ultimately...
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