Category: Fiction

  • REVIEW of False Colours, by Georgette Heyer

    My third and final post for today described another delicious novel by Georgette Heyer named False Colours. I’ve been on quite the Heyer kick lately, and I’m thinking about ordering more of her books from the library for summer reading. When Christopher (Kit) Fancot returns to England unexpectedly from Vienna, he finds that his twin…

  • REVIEW of The Chestnut King, by N. D. Wilson

    As the second post in my blitz, I am reviewing The Chestnut King, by N. D. Wilson. I realize that N. D. Wilson really deserves three posts all to himself, since The Chestnut King is the third and final book of a trilogy, but one short post is all I can afford. I dislike giving…

  • REVIEW of The Swan Thieves, by Elizabeth Kostova

    Most of the books I purchase are by authors who died a century ago, and I rarely have the desire to leaf through a contemporary bestseller. But when it comes to Elizabeth Kostova, my chronological snobbery goes out the window. She is a contemporary author who is well worth the read. I first encountered Kostova…

  • REVIEW of Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card

    This post has been over a month in the making, because while I read Ender’s Game quickly enough, it took me that long to obtain and read the three subsequent books in the series. Ender’s Game is the story of a young boy genius named Andrew (Ender) Wiggin who is taken from his family at…

  • REVIEW of Regency Buck, by Georgette Heyer

    Once upon a time, back when I was in college, a friend recommended that I read Georgette Heyer’s novels. I picked up my first one, The Grand Sophy, and devoured it. Then I was on to Fredrica and Cotillion and Bath Tangle. My enjoyment of Heyer’s books left me feeling a little guilty at first.…

  • REVIEW of Veiled Freedom, by Jeanette Windle

    My friend Dave likes to talk about books and he likes to collect books, but he doesn’t always like to crack the cover and turn the pages. Recently, he handed me a book that he had purchased but never read, a book written by his cousin Jeanette Windle. The cover picture displayed several women clad…

  • REVIEW of What’s Bred in the Bone, by Robertson Davies

    Francis Cornish, the wealthy Canadian art collector, is dead. But what kind of man was he? And what should his posthumous biography tell the waiting world? Neither his nephew Arthur nor the biographer Darcourt are entirely sure. Heaven only knows who Francis Cornish really was, and so it is heaven that provides the reader with…

  • REVIEW of Grendel, by John Gardner

    “I touch the door with my fingertips and it bursts, for all its fire-forged bands–it jumps away like a terrified deer–and I plunge into the silent, hearth-lit hall with a laugh that I wouldn’t much care to wake up to myself…. I am swollen with excitement, bloodlust and joy and a strange fear that mingle…

  • REVIEW of Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde

    Jasper Fforde’s books are as whimsical as the spelling of his last name. I was first introduced to Fforde over a year ago and mirthfully made my way through his Thursday Next books and Nursery Crime series in a matter of weeks. The fantastical wordplay and literary allusions exercised and entertained my brain (even convincing…

  • REVIEW of Katherine, by Anya Seton

    One of the pros (and cons) of being an author is that you must explore other books in the same field as yours so that you can learn how your work relates to the literary world. Frequently, my forays into historical fiction remind me why I want to write historical fiction — to give readers…