by Sarah Hutchins | Jun 13, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books, History
In 2001, cultural historian Kendall Taylor, Ph.D. published Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage. Now Taylor returns to the same subject matter in The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal that Shaped an American Classic. In the...
by Whitney Smyth | Feb 15, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Sponsored
Melissa M. Terra’s, The Professor in Children’s Literature: An Anthology, is a companion piece to her book, Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature, which was an in-depth look at how the children’s book industry has portrayed academia in literature...
by Whitney Smyth | Feb 6, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Sponsored
The publishing industry is a complicated and ever-evolving machine that many outsiders find to be completely confusing or a mysterious black box. However, for those interested in taking a peek behind the curtain, Cambridge University Press has started publishing a...
by Axie Barclay | Mar 28, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
Facts about Jane Austen are reiterated again and again by biographers and yet we continue to wonder who was this woman that wrote these novels and, more importantly, what does her writing have to say about its author? Helena Kelly presents a ground-breaking theory in...
by Whitney Smyth | Nov 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, General Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Michael is the kind of college student who seems to have it all. He’s got good friends, a loving girlfriend, is getting decent grades, and has largely been making good decisions… until now. Boomie – someone only Michael seems to be able to see – has put it into...
by Whitney Smyth | Oct 31, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Social Science
For those of us looking for something with a little education along with our scares, look no further than Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers. The book features 30 women writers, both living and dead, who have used their skills to magic up some...
