At nearly 30 years of age, Miss Annis Wynchwood has come to terms with her spinsterhood. She enjoys the independence that her age, wealth, and status provides, and has set up a house for herself at Bath. But what begins as an adventurous rescue of Miss Lucilla Carleton (who is running away from an arranged…
Tag: humor
Review: Gods Behaving Badly
(I read this book as part of 1book140. Keep up with the latest over at The Atlantic!) Being a god used to be easy. People worshipped you — and if they didn’t, they were easy to punish. Life was good in ancient Greece. But this isn’t ancient Greece — it’s modern-day London, and living face-to-elbow…
Review: The Wee Free Men: The Beginning
Tiffany Aching is an interesting 9 year-old. She’s always been a bit different, fond of asking unending questions, reading the entire dictionary, and being nosy. In short, she’s smart and curious — sure signs of a witch. As far as anyone is concerned, you just can’t grow a good witch on the Chalk; the area…
Review: The Corinthian, by Georgette Heyer
As I’ve mentioned before, Georgette Heyer wrote a lot of books. So far I’ve enjoyed her Regency novels much more than her mysteries, but that doesn’t narrow the scope by much — it still leaves me with 38 books from which to choose. Fortunately a couple of my readers are just as in love with…
“I don’t f*cking care if you like it.”
Title: Bossypants Author: Tina Fey Genre: Non-fiction – Autobiography Publication Date: 2011 Let me start by saying that I am just the teensiest bit obsessed with Tina Fey. The first time she popped up on my radar was when she was on Saturday Night Live, doing the “Weekend Update” skit as well as her fabulous…