The Green Dwarf: A Tale of the Perfect Tense by Charlotte Brontë. Recommended. The Green Dwarf demonstrates that literary achievement owes perhaps as much to experience and craft as to ability. Set in the exotic colonial city of Verdopolis in Africa, The Green Dwarf is … Continue reading →
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Highly recommended. Only 23 years old when she wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers captures the restless energy of adolescence and the loneliness and isolation of those who choose not to … Continue reading →
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. Highly recommended. There is no end to the ways in which human personality types can be categorised. According to Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D., one of … Continue reading →
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Recommended. Imagine a virus that may spread through the air and that causes death at the same rate as the Black Plague during the Middle Ages — within a matter of days. You don’t have to … Continue reading →
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto. Recommended. Before New York, there was New Netherland, claimed for the Dutch by English explorer Henry Hudson. At … Continue reading →
The Last Witchfinder: A Novel by James Morrow. New York: Harper Perennial. 2007. 560 pages. The last dodo. The last passenger pigeon. The last wilderness. The last fill-in-the-blank usually evokes a sense of sadness, loss, and finality. The Last Witchfinder, … Continue reading →
The Literary Lover: Great Contemporary Stories of Passion and Romance. Edited and with an introduction by Larry Dark. New York: Penguin Books USA, 1994. 368 pages. ISBN 0140171649. From the young to the old, the sanctioned to the illicit, the … Continue reading →
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle with an introduction by Michael Crichton and Diane Johnson and notes by Julia Houston. Recommended. By Arthur Conan Doyle’s day, advances in scientific method and technology had broadened our knowledge and shrunk our world. The … Continue reading →
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Recommended. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley is a retelling of Arthurian legend through the eyes of the women surrounding Arthur. This sounds simple enough, but before this one is over, you’ll … Continue reading →
The Mothman Prophecies by John A Keel. Recommended for fun. The Mothman Prophecies opens with a mysterious event — an unusual-looking stranger knocks on a door in rural West Virginia during a storm to ask to use a phone. The couple who live … Continue reading →