Escape back to old Boston with a fabulous fiction/non-fiction pairing! #amreading
Category: Books
These Women Should Scare (and Thrill) You…
What better way to celebrate Women’s History Month than to share women authors who scare the shit out of me? Okay, so sometimes, it’s not straight-up terror that they inspire. Sometimes, it’s just heart-pounding action, relentless pacing, and the unraveling of a mystery so intense that I have to stay up all night reading until…
Obsessed with the Catalogue Raisonné
What on earth is a catalogue raisonné you ask? (And very reasonably so.) A catalogue raisonné is a systematic, annotated catalog. Put another way, it’s a critical bibliography. Or, put most simply, it’s my guide to little reading projects on a topic. Want to know about Victorian Murder? South American exploration? Ancient Greece? So do I….
Mansplaining the Romance Genre
Full disclosure: after I post this blog, I’m probably going to go day drink and listen to Aretha’s “Respect” on repeat. Mansplaining romance and erotica has a way of doing that to me. Yesterday, Robert Gottlieb wrote a round-up of romance novels in the New York Times Book Review. Frankly, it’s more like he herds…
The 327th Re-Reading of “Make Way for Lucia”
I have long wanted to write about one of my greatest literary influences. Figuring out just how to do it, however, has been tricky. I wanted to introduce everyone to E.F. Benson’s “Lucia” series, but then, part of me worried that 1920’s-1930’s English county life satire might not be everyone’s cup of tea. I might…
The Shelf of Fiction I Would Save in a Fire
I am a horrible person. At least when it comes to fiction. I judge mercilessly. I fling aside into the DNF pile with wild abandon. I curl my lip at typos and sneer at poor word-smithing. I flip the bird (and sometimes the book) at puerile plotting. However, over the course of my life, I…
If You Write Fiction, Read Non-Fiction
I am insatiably curious. This has led to a slight issue (some might say addiction) with buying books. Non-fiction books. For an author, my actual collection of fiction is quite small. That’s probably because I’m such a picky bitch about the caliber of storytelling and writing I will read. But, non-fiction? OMG, it’s a real…
Why I Canceled Kindle Unlimited
It’s the start of a new blog – sort of. File it under “The Sort of Thing That Only Happens to Cait.” It began with going to my blog and seeing that all my images had disappeared…and ended up learning more about Bollywood porn spammers than I ever wanted to. Long story short (because I’d…