A young girl with a particular, peculiar gift—the ability to read the future in a bowl of water, or, as it was known at the time, an oracle glass. Geneviève is not blessed in any of the ways important to girls in 17th century Paris. She has a club foot and a twisted spine so her mother sends her away shortly after her birth. It is only when her father discovers he has a ... Read More...
The Bathing Women
In a family with dignity, there was no room for “other things”, no matter how profoundly someone in this family was shamed, or how deeply the person suffered. The Bathing Women takes place from the mid-1960s to present day in the city of Fuan, China. It begins with the sisters, Tiao and Fan, being left in a small apartment by their parents, Wu and Yixun, who have been ... Read More...
The Bad Miss Bennet
The last time we saw the troublesome Miss Lydia Bennet, she was smirking triumphantly at her sisters while being driven away by her new husband, the bounder Mr. Wickham. Now she has resurfaced, a widow at the ripe old age of nineteen, and while she mourns her husband’s passing (not really) she’s ready to go after the life she feels she deserves. And so begins the romp that is ... Read More...
Sweet Tooth
Sweet Tooth is about Serena Frome, a pretty girl with a mind for math and love for reading. Raised in a quiet town and religious family her childhood is unremarkable. As she prepares for university she wants to study English but her determined mother decides that there will be nothing so fluffy as English in her daughter’s future but that she will study math and go on to a ... Read More...
Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors
In 2011 the realm of sketch comedy was turned on its ear through the wacky genius of Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen. In a small Pacific Northwest town called Portlandia they birthed a roster of characters that were found to be unanimously funny by millions in America and funny in that too-close-to-home way for those of us who live in that real world city, Portland. In an ... Read More...
The Ruins of Lace
Sometimes the past has the power to devour the future. Sometimes, as the days grow shorter and more dreary, the only anecdote is a book that takes you far away and holds you there until the very last page. Ruins of Lace is just such a book. In the 1600s King Louis XIII banned the wearing of lace, making it the most desirable and dangerous commodity in the kingdom. The ... Read More...
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