From Scary Times Call for Scary Reads by Jennifer McMahon: [My new book is] a little creepy. My friend apologized and said that she just couldn’t read unsettling books because of how unsettling the world is right now. I would argue (and did!) that that is exactly when we need these books the most; they take us to dark places and help us explore our ( Read more... )

Whan that Aprill with his shoures sote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendered is the flour
-- from "The General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In literature we’re reading The Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English. I knew next to nothing about ( Read more... )

"Somehow I think introducing you at breakfast tomorrow is going to be awkward. [...] I'm serious! What am I supposed to say - 'I found her lying naked on the lawn at midnight, can I keep her?'"
-- from Knife by RJ Anderson

Apparently the next in the Jane Austen meets the supernatural series is Mansfield Park and MummiesSigh ( Read more... )