Tag: book-review
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Messy Middles: Maria Semple’s Go Gentle and Maria Adelmann’s The Adjunct
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus While I usually finish reading novels before I write about them, I’m in the midst of a Big Edit of my own mystery novel, and that has me thinking about the…
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Murder on the Orient Express: From Page to Stage to the Screen
A very young Jessica Chastain with David Morrissey in Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express. My Christie re-read is zooming along this spring, and I’ve enjoyed the novels so much that I’ve added some Agatha Christie-themed sites to a trip next fall that will mostly focus on researching P.D. James. My stops will…
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Iceland Noir: Margrét Ann Thors’s First Novel
I love this book. I’ve had a lucky streak of wonderful books: fiction and nonfiction, crime and suspense but also domestic/romantic “women’s fiction,” like Kerry Clare’s new novel, Definitely Thriving. Clare has a lot of fun with the idea of a segregated women’s literature: her protagonist, Clemence, fresh out of a marriage that she blew…
