I cannot stop raving about The Frozen River, Ariel Lawson’s upcoming book. I can’t wait for youall to be able to read it. It is the best historical fiction I’ve read in a good long while. Lawson’s book is about Martha Ballard, an American midwife who lived from 1735 to 1812. Ballard is a well-known…
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I finally saw Barbie last week in a funky little theater in Asheville, North Carolina. My daughter and I took in an afternoon show and the theater was almost empty–it was the two of us and five other women. It was my daughter’s second time–she thinks it’s a very funny movie. I agree–its humor along…
Lately, everywhere I read, I see articles about the increased cruelty/meanness/rudeness of our modern world. Articles titled How America Got Mean, Bad behavior at ‘Barbenheimer’ reflects a worrying trend, If you’ve felt like people are getting crueler, you may be right, We no longer know how to behave in public, and others are proliferating like Taylor…
This week I have been at my annual big family vacation in the North Carolina mountains. We’ve been coming to the same “family camp” since I was a child–this year there are 24 of us. This year, the camp has a slogan “Welcome to this thin place.” I confess, this baffles me. It’s…
We are living in a golden age for documentary films. Lately, when I ask people what they’re watching, almost everyone speaks with passion about a documentary. In the past month alone, friends have raved to me about How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, Finding Vivian Maier, Fantastic Fungi, Tiny Creatures, My Octopus Teacher, Honeyland,…
I struggle to fall asleep. I always have. As the poet Dana Gioia writes, every night brings to me the useless insight, the unbroken dark. I am not anxious or unhappy as I lie awake–I am, simply, awake when I do not wish to be. One of the tricks any good insomniac uses is lulling…
We have 113 books tagged as age gap romances. 61 one of them are DIKs. They are, in general, not my jam. (That said, I adore What I Did for a Duke.) Why don’t I like them? I think it’s because I’m old. If I’d married someone 25 years older than me, he’d now be…
Yeah, yeah, yeah–I am aware that there are, for many, problematic consent issues around workplace romances. And yet…. I do sort of love a boss/employee, coworkers in love, romance. Rachel and Ryan in A Match Made in Scandal, Connor and Allison in Bench Player, and Lucy and Joshua in The Hating Game all totally float…
One of my very favorite tropes is the marriage of convenience love story. It’s a common one in romance, perhaps more so in historicals–we have 85 books tagged as such here and I’m sure we’ve missed a bunch. My favorites, off the top of my head, are Ravishing the Heiress and (loosely) Dukes are Forever. (I…
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