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Le Fanu is better known for his gothic novels, but much like his contemporary, Wilkie Collins, he also penned stories of suspense and mys...

This is one of those stories that works on many, many levels simultaneously. What all the levels have in common, however, is their explor...

I'm no Luddite, as I expect this blog demonstrates. However, I do continue to have serious reservations about a future in which digita...

I love gardening! Or, rather, I love the idea of gardening, as the heavily wooded plot on which I live is rather too rich in shade, ...

It’s been days now since I finished Tale of Two Cities, but still having a hard time shaking it. The opening of the book – “It was the b...

Just sayin', it's a damned shame we don't still dress like this to drive cars.

A feedback loop is any initial process that triggers a change that in turn influences the initial process.  The feedback loop is consider...

Nothing much happens in the first half of this E.F. Forster novel, set in Edwardian England. That is, there’s a lot of intellectually sel...

Because the only way to make a great book better is to pair it with something sweet. Like wine and cheese, however, it's important t...

  Recently read an article purporting to present the 20 Most Significant Unanswered Questions in Science.  So of course I immediately start...

Figure one of the few advantages of aging is that at least now I'm old enough now to start writing posts about the "good o...

Don't be fooled by the modest length of this novella. This is no light read; rather, it's as dense as a Christmas pudding, stuffed ...

This is the rather melancholic tale of a prosperous businessman in the "autumn" of his years (50s) realizing that all he has to...

No - this isn't an image that's been squished out of shape by too much dragging and dropping.  It's the Peter's Projection M...

I have unfortunately reached the time in my life when writing condolence cards is becoming a regular necessity.  This is made all the mo...

Like Ethan Frome and Age of Innocence, Brideshead Revisited features sympathetic but heartbreakingly human protagonists, possessing both ...

I personally can't imagine ever running out of things to do at the library, but in honor of library week (2nd week in April), here...

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Olivier is the aristocratic son of a French royalist family that finds himself sent to America by his parents to protect him from civil ...

Ever wonder why kids get all the good parties?  Parties with costumes and games and creative foods and decorations?  Why do all adult par...