Books and Chocolate

He pitied widows, but he mistrusted them.  They knew too much.  As free as unmarried women, they were fully armed; this was an unfair advant...

  Last year just before COVID hit I wrote this post about a production of The   Merry Wives of Windsor at the Folger Shakespeare Theater in...

It's April and that means Fanda's annual Zoladdiction , a celebration of the life and works of Emile Zola (1840-1902). After putting...

  I love books written in the inter-war period; I love memoirs; and I love the middlebrow author Dorothy Whipple, so One Fine Day checks off...

While searching for an appropriate book for the 1936 Club , I realized that Anne of Windy Poplars, fourth in the Anne of Green Gables series...

Time for another Classics Spin, #26 ! I'm getting close to the end of my second Classics Club list . A week from today, April 18, the Sp...

I knew that as long as there was a hope for the future somewhere I would not stop trying to reach it. I looked at my brother and Alfredo and...

  I love that Dean Street Press has re-published so many out-of-print women authors in their Furrowed Middlebrow imprint -- some of the mor...

Never was a girl more in love with the whole adventure of living, and less equipped to hold her own in it, than the Halo Spear who had come ...

He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them...