Back in 2008, Dewey and I co-reviewed The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty. We were both doing the Pulitzer Project, and when she noticed that we both planned to read it next, she suggested we discuss it and post the results. This was my very first...

Tales of Mystery & the Macabre collects nine Gothic short stories and novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell, most of which were originally published in Charles Dickens’ weekly Household Words, and then collected in Curious, If True and The Grey Woman and...

Banana Yoshimoto’s Asleep collects three slightly surreal novellas, all narrated by young women, and all connected with sleep—and loss. The first is called “Night and Night’s Travellers”, and it was my favourite of the three. It's narrated by...

“On the morning of August the twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty something” (I just love this opening line), Pell Ridley decides to run away from home. What she's leaving behind is not just her home and family, but also her village, her outlined...

(I read this book back in June for the Once Upon a Time Challenge, wrote this post, saved the draft, and completely forgot about it until last week - oops.)And he took up a long sword that lay there and broke it before the eyes of Húrin, and a...