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On sense, sensibility, and sea monsters:
Remember when, a couple of months ago, I read and reviewed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?  Well, this Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters post is the bizzaro-world post of that.  Nearly everything you will read in this post is the exact opposite of what I wrote in the P&P&Z [...]

On the year of the young adult novel, gracelings, independence, and new beginnings:
When I informally declared 2009 to be my Year of the Young Adult Novel, I did a search of popular YA novels with an eye towards adding some of them to my TBR pile, which is how I stumbled across this gem of [...]

Today, I am delighted to host my very first blog tour!  I’m new at this blog-hosting thing and I’m not completely sure how these things work, so I’m just going to wing it and hope everything turns out okay.  Kind of like that time when I tried to fix my broken VHS player by wiggling [...]

On a Jane Austen spin-off:
A preface:  The folks at Simon & Schuster were kind enough to send me a copy of Elizabeth Aston’s The Darcy Connection months and months ago.  I put it in my ARC pile and then promptly forgot about it.  At the time, I wasn’t interested in reading any Jane Austen, much less [...]

On good-natured, meedlesome women named Emma:
If Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most beloved novel, then Emma is the novel people seem the most ambivalent about.  Readers hardly ever gush about how much they love Emma nor do they swoon over the stately Mr. Knightly.  It’s said that even Jane Austen admitted she didn’t see [...]

On ghostwriters, seances, and little Gothic writing:
Last year, I almost read The Ghost Writer by John Harwood for the 2008 R.I.P. III challenge.  Unfortunately, it got bumped by something else, but The Ghost Writer and its author stayed on my radar for possible re-entry in next this year’s challenge.  Then, a couple of months ago I [...]

On Learning to Drive, Marxism, relationships, and wit:

Learning to Drive: and Other Life Stories is a collection of personal essays by Katha Pollit.  It begins with the eponymous essay wherein the fifty-something author learns – or tries to anyway – how to navigate the road behind the wheel, and ends with the essay “I Let Myself Go” wherein she [...]