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Old Valentines
Old Valentines is full of publishing industry in-jokiness, so I assumed the author worked in publishing. He did not. I also assumed he was English and didn’t understand why The Bookman was trying to...
View ArticleA Safety Match
A Safety Match is like if Ian Hay deliberately set out to write a fun he/she fell in love with his/her wife/husband book minus all of the really knotty emotional scenes, and mostly succeeded. In fact,...
View ArticleWhy Not?
It’s funny how much text sources influence my reading. When I want to read Margaret Widdemer, I always go for The Rose-Garden Husband and The Wishing-Ring Man, and that’s mostly because they’re great,...
View ArticleThe Girl Crusoes
I don’t know how I feel about The Girl Crusoes (by Mrs. Herbert Strang, a pseudonym for the same two guys who wrote as Mr. Herbert Strang). I love a good survival story, which I think means this isn’t...
View ArticleThe Seed of the Righteous
The Seed of the Righteous feels like Juliet Wilbor Tompkins’s entry into the subgenre that includes V.V.’s Eyes, The Clarion, and A Poor Wise Man. But those are about wealthy young people coming to...
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Fashion Magazines – 1904, 1916, 1922
This past week I’ve been a) mainlining Grace S. Richmond books I’ve already read and b) burying myself in early 20th century fashion magazines via Google Books. I thought some of you guys might enjoy...
View ArticleSpray on the Windows
The thing about Spray on the Windows (by J.E. Buckrose) is that I’ve only just admitted to myself, a month and a half after finishing it, that I don’t like it. I feel guilty about that, because it’s...
View ArticleWhen the Yule Log Burns
So, uh, hey. It’s been a while. I’m really sorry for not posting for so long. I’m really sorry for missing Captain Blood Day. I tried to get something together but I just couldn’t do it. But I didn’t...
View ArticleThe Blue Envelope
Is a book ever as good all the way through, especially when there’s a romantic climax to get through and authors can’t be depended on not to forget what their characters are actually like, or pretend...
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Our Miss York
I think what we all need during this frankly awful time is, yes, another book from the teens about a young woman earning a living. Happy ending a must. I can’t find out much about Edwin Bateman Morris,...
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