Tag: book-reviews
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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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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…
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Children’s Crime Fiction: The Chalet School and the Right’s Embrace of The Hardy Boys, Racism and All
I’ve had a busy week of drafting applications, and one of these (completed! submitted!) required multiple short essays documenting my interest in mountain literature. I resisted citing the Chalet School novels as my earliest immersion in serial fiction in a mountain setting, but it’s hard for me to think about alpine lit without a wistful…
