I am pleased to welcome Wendy Wax, author of Magnolia Wednesdays to Peeking Between the Pages today. I had received Wendy's novel late and due to prior commitments my review of it will be at the end of this month but it is coming and I'm really looking forward to reading it. I've heard a lot of good things about it. Let's join Wendy as she talks about why she writes about women...

One of the neatest twists during Neil Gaiman’s run on Sandman was Lucifer’s decision, at the end of one storyline, to abandon Hell and take an extended vacation on Earth; author Mike Carey and artist Peter Gross eventually picked up that narrative thread for another DC comic, Lucifer, which ran for six years—I didn’t read

I am so late writing this post!  But the Lord of the Rings Readalong is continuing, and I am combining the end-of-Fellowship questions from Clare and the start-of-Towers questions from Teresa all in one post.  I can do that. Since we’re dealing with the first third of a novel, instead of the first novel in a

Synopsis: The NorseCODE genome project was designed to identify descendants of Odin. What it found was Kathy Castillo, a murdered MBA student brought back from the dead to serve as a valkyrie in the Norse god’s army. Given a sword and a new name, Mist’s job is to recruit soldiers for the war between the gods at the end of the world—and to kill those who refuse to fight. But as the twilight o...

The internet may be taking over from the printing press, just as Dürer's timeless engraving Melencolia I spelled the end for medieval scriptoria, but let us remember that print is beautiful In the exhibition Michelangelo's Dream currently at the Courtauld Gallery in London, the beauty of print is exemplified by Albrecht Dürer's timeless engraving Melencolia I. The curator ...

My hope, in the end, is that the incessant hype around Avatar didn’t simply annoy voters until they voted against it, out of nothing more than spite.

I just read Ann Vanderhoof's latest travel memoir, The Spice Necklace, and loved it. One of the things I found intriguing were the recipes at the end of each chapter, highlighting a speciality of the island she had been visiting in that chapter. Chapter 1 featured her time in Grenada, where the primary export is (was?) nutmeg. After Hurricane Ivan, hundreds of the nutmeg trees were destroyed ...

       The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street.        (This is a perfectly fine book -- a readable account of the recent financial crisis -- but was also the most pointless book I've completed in ages. Yes, it's decently packaged and well-ordered, ...

I want to start with the end, as I think it gives you a bit of the moxy from the author that will filter up through the pages of Crooked Little Vein. Many times we read the back-interior flap of a book and the author bio that offers a personal touch, but for the most ...

65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, should the Holocaust's place in Jewish literature change? A quick look at the programme for Jewish Book Week shows a diverse range of topics, from cookery to sport, mathematics to Hebrew, the global economic crisis to the one in Israel-Palestine. And then, of course, there's the Holocaust: as embedded in contemporary Jewish literary cu...