If you haven’t heard of BookTube, it’s a community within YouTube that focuses on making videos about books. Earlier this week I made a video for Shawn the Book Maniac’s channel. He’s celebrating 2K subscribers and asked subscribers to submit… Read More ›
I stumbled upon Welcome to the Writer’s Life while dashing into the library to return books. In true book nerd fashion, I couldn’t resist stepping into the next room to glance at the new book display even though Laura was waiting… Read More ›
We’re taking a big leap in time with “Coming, Aphrodite!” We’re moving from stories included in Cather’s 1905 short story collection, The Troll Garden, and into her second collection published in 1920, Youth and the Bright Medusa. It’ll be… Read More ›
If you’re building or renovating a home and like to repurpose old architectural features, this novel will make you think twice about those great finds you bring home. This is not your typical haunted house story. The unsuspecting couple doesn’t… Read More ›
The annual Edgar Banquet of the Mystery Writers of America was held last night in New York City. It’s a black tie affair at which the Edgar Allan Poe Award winners are announced. In recent years I haven’t been following… Read More ›
We’re on story number three of the Willa Cather Short Story Project, “The Marriage of Phædra” from Cather’s first published collection of short stories, The Troll Garden. This is another story written in the style of Henry James. As some… Read More ›
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin. This is where members of the Classics Club create a list of twenty books from their main list that they’d like to read sooner rather than later. On a given date (Monday, April… Read More ›