I'm definitely a Sherlock Holmes fan and I've read nearly every Holmes story written by Arthur Conan Doyle.  However, I am in no way...

Imagine you are ten years old and your older brother has been killed in a school shooting.  How would you understand?  How would you learn t...

If I were the only kid in my class who had to stay at school on Wednesday afternoons while half my class when to Catechism and the other hal...

After reading The Weird Sisters I decided that I needed to visit a few other books where Shakespeare plays a role in the story - but not an...

Although Daphne du Maurier was a prolific writer - books, plays, memoirs - I never got around to reading anything but her Rebecca .  Creeped...

Thursday Next is one of my most favorite literary characters, making Jasper Fforde a favored author.  Very favored.  There was a great deal ...

I had The Tale of Despereaux adaptation from Netflix for several months before I started watching it...and then I stopped.  It didn't s...

While I wait impatiently for the new Jane Eyre adaptation to make an appearance in Iowa (I've been stalking the Focus Features website ...

I've reviewed The Clockwork Universe - my first chemistry-ish book during the International Year of Chemistry - over at Reading Chemist...

I'm definitely a Shakespeare fangirl.  I've read all the plays at least once (the only English course I took in undergrad was a cla...

Sometimes a book just follows me around, silently reminding me I should read it.  Tom Rachman's  The Imperfectionists kept nagging at m...

The Chaucer-vulture lies in wait....