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Pioneer Girls
I started rereading the Little House books after Jennette and I got talking about them the other day. (I’m not entirely sure how we made the segue from brunch mimosas to The Long Winter. We are...
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‘The Boleyn Bride’ by Brandy Purdy
The Boleyn bride of the title is Elizabeth Howard Boleyn, mother of George, Mary, and Anne Boleyn. My entire previous knowledge of her life is basically me noting that the Boleyn siblings got their...
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Juliet’s Nurse
Although I raised my hand for Juliet in my high school English class’ dramatic reading, I was assigned the Nurse. My English teacher consoled me by explaining that this was a meatier role, which didn’t...
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‘Rich Kids of Instagram': Satyricon and the City
Rich Kids of Instagram is a Tumblr of, well, rich kids posing with their expensive stuff. Whether it’s yachts, sports cars, resorts or dropping $10,000 on cosmetics, the Tumblr recalls late-Roman...
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The Summer Queen
Elizabeth Chadwick’s The Summer Queen tells the story of young Alienor (who will be called Eleanor from now on, because my spellcheck prefers it), from her childhood with her sister Petronella in...
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The Fiction Vendetta
Let’s get it out of the way at the beginning: Yeah, I read that Slate piece this summer, shaming the uncultured, lowbrow adult readers of YA fiction, and my response is the kind of intense eyeroll I...
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