National Poetry Month: “I Want To Be Your Shoebox,” by Catherine Bowman

April April is National Poetry Month and to celebrate this year, Serena from Savvy Verse and Wit has called on fellow bloggers to participate by volunteering to profile a poet or poem. Catherine Bowman is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University and the author of the poetry collections NOTARIKON, ROCK FARM, and [...]

Review of “When the Thrill is Gone” by Walter Mosley

This story starts out very similar to one of the Laura Lippman books about Private Investigator Tess Monaghue. A client comes in pretending to be someone else, in order to investigate something else than the stated purpose of the visit. [Librarians will also recognize this trope in its library-patron form: "I'm looking for a certain [...]

Review of “The Weird Sisters” by Eleanor Brown

Rosalind (Rose), Bianca (Bean) and Cordelia (Cordy) are the three offspring of the Andreas family. Like their namesakes, Rosalind (from As You Like It), “the responsible one” wants a true love; Bianca (the second daughter here and in The Taming of the Shrew) is beautiful and deceptive; and Cordelia (the youngest of three daughters here [...]