Author makes tough decision, retains integrity

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Melissa Wiley is the author of the Charlotte and Martha series of Little House books. These are books that extend the Little House on the Prairie series with stories about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s grandmother and great-grandmother, and they are very nicely done. When HarperCollins announced its decision to re-release Wiley’s books in abridged form to [...]

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That Ayn Rand thing

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Finally an answer to that nagging question: why do so many girls fall in love with Ayn Rand in their adolescence, only to repudiate her in shame when they grow old enough to know better? Fortunately, I wasn’t bit too hard with the Rand bug. I read The Fountainhead and thought it was pretty good [...]

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Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

I had heard the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy Sayers were very good, but I had never read one until I picked up Gaudy Night on the strength of Maureen Corrigan’s recommendation in Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading. She had singled it out as a book that treats women’s issues, particulary questions of career [...]

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