Escape back to old Boston with a fabulous fiction/non-fiction pairing! #amreading
Category: Catalogues Raisonnés
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…
Doing Due Dilly Dilly Diligence for Faux Medieval Fantasy
If you know me at all, you know I get a bit twitchy when it comes to what I like to call ‘faux medieval fantasy.’ It’s not that I have a problem with dragons, magic, or even princesses-in-disguise (okay, well, yes, I have a problem with that). What makes me turn into a biter is…
Amazon–no, the OTHER Amazon (A Catalogue Raisonne)
It’s that time of year again. You know what I mean. Time for diet sabotaging, socializing with people we can’t stand, and going way over budget on Amazon. But, there’s another Amazon, one that can take us away from all this noise (i.e. non-stop Christmas music), hustle (sit DOWN, Black Friday), and bustle (don’t even…
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….