This request is from Lara: I’m reading Jane Austen’s Bookshelf and it’s making me really curious about the classics. Something I haven’t felt in at least a decade. So it’s a really broad rec request. Which classics (especially women writers who aren’t necessarily ‘canon’) would the bitchery recommend? I have only one other requirement – that the book have a happy ending. Oh and preferably available as an ebook as my budget and location don’t … Continue reading The Rec League: Classics with Happy Endings →
Willa Cather’s masterpiece about resilience and frontier life, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics line. The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, and family tragedy, she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm. A fictional record of how women helped forge the communities that formed a nation, My Ántonia … Continue reading My Antonia →
Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers is an anthology that contains twenty-one stories of crypts, brain fevers, meditations on the meaning of God, enormous crumbling houses, obsessive artists, creepy children, and moors. So, you know, pretty much everything I cherish in life. While most of the stories were published firmly within the Victorian Era, a few were published just before or just after it. As is, unfortunately, often the case with older books, I … Continue reading Victorian Ghost Stories By Eminent Women Writers: Edited by Richard Dalby →
Richard Dalby here selects the very best ghost stories by outstanding 19th and early twentieth century women writers. Since the days of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, women have produced many of the finest ghost stories ever written, bringing to their craft the qualities of their personal experience and their history of living on the margins. These twenty-one stories neatly spanning Queen Victoria’s reign and including such classic authors as Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret … Continue reading Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers →
Anyone who sees in my house knows that mine is a house of people who do a lot of living but not a shit ton of decorating. We pretty much accessorize with books and pet hair. Accordingly, I have a masochistic relationship with decorator magazines and books – I love to see the pictures but the only actual tip I’ve ever managed to put into use involves having a lot of baskets and bins and … Continue reading Novel Interiors: Living in Enchanted Rooms Inspired by Literature by Lisa Borgnes Giramonti →
by SB Sarah · Nov 10, 2009 at 1:53 pm ·
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The response to our new feature with Billie Bloebaum from Powell’s was rather huge – we have so many letters from people who’ve never been matched to a book, or been hand-sold a new read at the bookstore or library. So, this week we have two letters. First is Rebecca: I’ve often been asked if I “need help” at a bookstore, but I’ve never been directed toward (or steered away) from a particular book. Maybe … Continue reading The Bookmatcher: Paranormals and Westerns →
