You know how sometimes all conversation, media consumption, and thought seems to coalesce into a Grand Theme for a moment? Well, lately, a cool 69 days since The Heroine’s Bookshelf was released by Harper, the theme has been (im)perfection. Like many of you, I enjoyed Black Swan and Tron: Legacy
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“November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year,” said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. “That’s the reason I was born in it,” observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose. Now that November is coming to
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When people hear about the books in my book about books, they go one way or the other. Either they’re neutral/excited, or their faces fall. ”I haven’t read all of those,” they say, crestfallen. Or they read the book and say “To my shame, I’d never read ____________. “ As
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This is mainly a post about the Boulder Book Store’s book club night last night, but it’s also a post about the glory of books. The books that bring us together in contentious knots and cast us apart and make us laugh and act silly and spend thousands of dollars.
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I came late to The House of Mirth, having been traumatized by Ethan Frome in high school. So imagine my surprise to meet Lily Bart, in all her decadent-yet-run down glory. This is a heroine for grown women, a devious, self-centered, and tired thing, a woman who is bound by
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