by Donna | Jan 14, 2010 | Fiction
Rating: The Glass of Time: The Secret Life of Miss Esperanza Gorst, Narrated by Herself, by Michael Cox. W.W. Norton & Company (2008), 575 pages. In Victorian England, young Esperanza Gorst, a twenty-year-old orphan, applies for a position as personal...
by Cindy | Dec 3, 2009 | Fiction
(This review first appeared in February 2005) Rating: As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me, by Nanci Kincaid. Back Bay Books (2005), 384 pages. Many literary fiction readers undoubtedly missed out on this book due to the unwieldy chick-lit like title and...