The World’s Wife (1999) by Carol Ann Duffy is the first poetry collection to be included in the Literary Wives Series, during which we explore the following questions: What does this book say about wives or about the experience of being a wife? In what way does this woman define “wife”—or in what way is... Continue Reading →
I picked up The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson because of Jeopardy! I often get the books and literature categories mostly correctly, and when I missed one about this novella, I decided that I must read it. My missing that question was an obvious gap in my... Continue Reading →
The only thing I asked Alexander McCall Smith when I met him was: “Is the book by Clovis Andersen, The Principles of Private Detection, a real book?” If you’re familiar with the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s the book Mma Ramotswe uses to guide all of... Continue Reading →
The Bookshelf of Emily J. 