Book Reviews

Every month I try to post a book review, so if you're looking for one I wrote previously or just want to see what I've reviewed thus far this is the place to look! 


Fiction

On Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (November 2021)

On The Thousand and One Ghosts by Alexandre Dumas (June 2021) 

On Little by Edward Carey (February 2021) 

On Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace (July 2020)

On The Thirty-First of June: A Tale of Love, Enterprise and Progress, in the Arthurian and Ad-Atomic Ages by J.B. Priestley  (June 2020)

On A Fantasy of Dr. Ox by Jules Verne (May 2020) 

On The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (August 2018)

On The Girl Who Married a Lion by Alexander McCall Smith (May 2018)

On Their Finest by Lissa Evans (April 2018) 

On The Possum that Didn't by Frank Tashlin (March 2018) 

On The Bear that Wasn't by Frank Tashlin (September 2017)

On Hook's Tale by John Leonard Pielmeier (August 2017)

On Kingfisher by Patricia McKillip (January 2017)

On Classics of the Macabre by Daphne DuMaurier  (October 2016)

On An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky by Dan Beachy-Quick (September 2016)

On To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey (August 2016)

On The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick (June 2016)

On Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland (April 2016) 

On Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo (March 2016) 

On Old Mr. Flood by Joseph Mitchell (February 2016) 

On Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson (January 2016) 

On To Catch A Thief by David Dodge (August 2015)

On Peabody's Mermaid by Guy and Constance Jones (July 2015)

On Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgins (June 2015)  

On The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick (Feb. 2015)

On Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (December 2014)

On The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (November 2014)
 
On Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford (October 2014)

On Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons (May 2014)

On Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C. S. Lewis (February 2014)

On The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (January 2014)

On The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson (December 2013) 

On Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker (October 2013)

On Village School by Miss Read (August 2013)

On The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Scott F. Fitzgerald (May 2013) 

On I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (February 2013)


Mystery

On The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (May 2015)


Children's and Young Adult

On Animated Classics: Disney Alice in Wonderland (October 2021)

On Beatrix Potter: A Journal (July 2021)

On Audrey (Cow) by Dan Bar-El (March 2021)

On The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine by Mark Twain and Philip C. Stead (January 2021)

On Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet (October 2020)

On Mud Pies and Other Recipes by Marjorie Winslow (August 2020)

On The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley (March 2020)

On The Serial Garden by Joan Aiken (February 2020)

On Frogkisser! by Garth Nix (July 2018)

On Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren (February 2018)

On Beauty by Robin McKinley (January 2018)

On Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carousel Book (May 2017)

On Ms. Rapscott's Girls by Elsie Primavera (March 2017)

On The Marzipan Pig by Russell Hoban (February 2017)

On A Necklace of Raindrops and Other Stories by Joan Aiken (September 2013)


Non-Fiction  

On Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking ed. Barbara Hall & Rocky Lang (September 2021)

On The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Natalia Holt (May 2021)

On The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlsted (November 2020)

On Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (September 2020)

On Long Ago in France by M.F.K. Fisher (April 2020) 

On Ink and Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation by Mindy Johnson (July 2019)

On The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara (May 2019)

On Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll by Douglas R. Nickel (June 2018)

On Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell (December 2017)

On V&A Pattern: Novelty Patterns (October 2017)
 
On ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’: The Life of Beatrix Potter by Matthew Dennison (July 2017)

On Life of the Party by Bob Kealing (June 2017)

On Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by  Simon Garfield ()

On Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (December 2016)  

On 50's Decor (November 2016)

On The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays (July 2016)

On Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution by Susan Handley (May 2016)

On Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (November 2015)

On Edith Head:The Life and Times ofHollywood's Celebrated Costume Designer by David Chierichetti (October 2015)

On The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald (September 2015)

On Fred Astaire by Joseph Epstein (April 2015)

On Bette Davis by Laura Moser  (March 2015)

On Tinseltown by William J. Mann (Jan. 2015)  

On Leading Ladies: The 50 Most Unforgettable Actresses of the Studio Era (September 2014) 

On Five Came Back by Mark Harris (August 2014)  

On Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis (April 2014)

On Sew and Save by Joanna Chase (March 2014)

On Odd Type Writers by Celia Blue Johnson (November 2013)

On The Fairy Tale of My Life by Hans Christian Andersen (July 2013)

On A Book of Nonsense by Mervyn Peake (June 2013)

On 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (April 2013)


Holiday
On The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden (November 2017)

On Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davis (December 2015)

Lists 

On Inky's Summer Reading Recommendations (June 2014) 

On Inky's Christmas Reading Recommendations (December 2020)

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