Penelope’s Pinterest Board related to Neil Gaiman’s works. 2013 April Poem A Gaiman poem with which to kickoff National Poetry Month. 2012 May Commencement Speech Twenty minute video of Neil Gaiman’s inspiring commencement speech at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts in May 2012. This speech will be published in book form under the title ‘Neil…
Category: Fiction
Adult, teen, and all ages fiction. Some subsets (such as fiction manga or science fiction) may be in a separate category.
Regency Romance Novels
Reference Technically a Regency romance is set during the British Regency, 1811 to 1820. Helpful order of precedence chart for European honorific titles. Palladian architecture was a mid-17th and early 18th century English interpretation of a 16th century Venetian interpretation of early Greek and Roman architecture. scorzonera, skirret, cardoon, couve tronchuda Games of chance: Vingt-et-un…
Children’s Classics
Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg on Project Gutenburg
Adult Paranormal Fiction
(Also see the Paranormal Romance Novels post.) Peeves Why do sequel blurbs lead off with phrases such as “her greatest challenge yet”, “she must confront dark secrets”, or “she uncovers a dark plot that may forever change the face of Y”? Pish. I appreciate a series in which the characters – antagonists as well as…
Adult Mystery and Suspense
Books by Patricia Cornwell Port Mortuary I hadn’t listened to (or read) a novel in the Kay Scarpetta series in some time. The detective elements and the technology was entertaining but the emoting of the main character got annoyingly overwrought. The reading by Kate Burton was quite engaging. Books by Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum Series…