
“Dirty” books. “Trashy” novels. “Fluffy” ways to spend your time. The more I get into this crazy world of being an author (and an author with a loudly-announced love of classic books), the more book shame I see all around me. There seems to be a barely-articulated expectation that as
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Happy National Library Week! In light of that happy event and my Friday appearance at the Boulder Book Store’s Revival of the Classics event, I’ve got classics on the mind. When people hear that The Heroine’s Bookshelf deals with “classic” authors and books, there are two normal reactions: the thrilled
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Today is the 197th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s immortal (so far) Pride and Prejudice, which is fittingly the very first book I dove into when writing The Heroine’s Bookshelf. After all, what bibliophile in her right mind can really resist such a spirited, flawed, funny, sexy, and
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