Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold RushLael Morgan “ ‘Guys, if you’re not ready, don’t stand in line!’ “ Prospectors weren’t the only ones who headed north during the gold rushes of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Women couldn’t stake claims, but many were willing to sell whatever talents they had to men…
What I read: October 2025
By GaslightSteven Price “There were leafless trees branched and cold like capillaries in the lungs of the dead and William saw this from the open seat of a rented carriage with a blanket over his knees and a scarf at his throat and he understood he had been waiting for something that had at last…
“The Change” by Kirsten Miller [The Secret Lantern]
Women who live past their youthful, fertile years are often expected to fade into the background. The Change considers what it might be like if we treated middle age and beyond as important as youth. What makes this book magical is the metaphor of menopause as magic — aging as a beginning instead of an…
What I read: September 2025
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most FoulEleanor HermanBook club “…people living in terror of poison were, in fact, poisoning themselves every day of their lives, through their medicine, cosmetics, and living conditions. At Europe’s dazzling royal courts, beneath a facade of bejeweled beauty, there festered illness, ignorance,…
What I read: August 2025
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and MurderDouglas Preston “There is not one word of fiction in this collection, even though some of the stories in the book will strike you as being as crazy and improbable as any of my thrillers.” Like many authors, Douglas Preston is often asked…