B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Paranormal lite / politics / rural setting / slice of village life / Spain / village / WitchesNo Comments
This is a light-hearted story set in an Andalucian hill-village. Agnes, a mathematics teacher with some curious and useful abilities takes a holiday in Spain and meets a breeder of horses who asks her to marry him. She abandons her job and her father and the UK and comes to ... more >
Publishing Newsbaby announcements / Bill O'Reilly / Henry Holt / Macmillan / Man Booker International Prize / Sant Jordi / sexual harassment / Spain / superheroes / translation2 Comments
Man Booker International Prize reveals 2017 shortlist – The International Prize honors translated fiction, and the six shortlisted titles emerge from a longlist of thirteen. In some ways, the Prize recognizes translation as a literary art on par with original writing, as both translator and original author receive the same amount of ... more >
Publishing NewsCarlos Giménez / Comics / design / Spain / technology / writing conferences3 Comments
AWP 2016 Wrap-up: Literature, Commerce, and Even Love Collide in Los Angeles – This year’s meeting of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs featured everything from a moving lecture from Claudia Rankine to a marriage proposal proffered during a live poetry reading. Rankine’s presentation focused on the lack of diversity ... more >
Letters of OpinionBig-Misunderstanding / England / family feuds / historical romance / kidnapped heroine / long separation / Pennyroyal Green series / pirates / Regency / reunited-lovers / series conclusion / slavery / Spain / star-crossed lovers48 Comments
Trigger warnings: Janine: When Julie Anne Long’s much-awaited The Legend of Lyon Redmond came out recently, Robin, Jennie and I decided to hold a SPOILERIFIC roundtable discussion of the book. Below is the back cover description: Bound by centuries of bad blood, England’s two most powerful families maintain a veneer ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended Reads16th-century / Historical / privateer / Spain / swashbuckler / Tudor-England18 Comments
Dear Readers, If you’ve never read anything by Georgette Heyer beyond her Regencies, or you’re not interested in prissy Regencies, preferring action and adventure, then do yourself a favor and try this one. It might be that because my introduction to Heyer was through her Georgians and Beauvallet that this ... more >
Publishing Newscensorship / Don Quixote / Fairy-Tales / History / illustrations / Sherman Alexie / Spain / Vikings10 Comments
Parents call cops on teen for giving away banned book; it backfires predictably – This is both sad and amusing. Sherman Alexie’s National Book Award winner, 2007 YA novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian had been banned from an Idaho junior high school curriculum. In concert with ... more >