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"But What Will People Think?"
Detectives and disgrace in Victorian fiction
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
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My Year in Books: 2024
A look back over the year's reading
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Top Ten Books Read in 2024
It’s become one of my favorite New Year’s traditions: my annual list of the top ten books I read this year.
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
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"Now is the time of Christmas come"
A garland of forgotten carols from a 19th-century short story
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The Many Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
But chiefly of Mrs. Gamp.
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
A List of Forgotten Authors
Rediscovering forgotten authors is a favorite pastime of mine, and it's been a while since I made a good list.
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Summer Reading 2024
I feel like I don't know when exactly I made a summer reading list this year—perhaps because I've been so busy this spring—but it went through all the…
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
My Year in Books: 2023
Time for my yearly roundup of books read in the past year!
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
Top Ten Books Read in 2023
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
Top Ten Tuesday: My Top Ten Mystery Novels
This week's Top Ten Tuesday is a pick-your-genre list week, and as it happens, I've discovered that for the first time in my recollection I have a clear…
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
Summer Reading 2023
I've been so busy this spring with my day job and other practical matters that I've done barely any reading at all.
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
My Year in Books: 2022
Comparing my Goodreads shelves with my physical book diary, I find my total of books read for the year to be about 80.
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
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