Tithonus By Alfred, Lord Tennyson The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of…
OF WEIRD NEWS AND STRANGE OBJECTS
Burglar Caught By A Skeleton By Jeremy Clay & Antiques Magpie by Marc Allum Jeremy Clay has scoured Victorian newspapers for tidbits and tales of bizarre and amazing news and compiled them into this handy book. Need to impress someone at a party? Need to one-up that guy at work? Get some ideas here — or…
ACCENT: BURIAL RITES by Hannah Kent
I’ve never read anything quite like this debut novel from the young author Hannah Kent. Set in early Victorian-era Iceland, it features a convicted murderess and the family assigned to house her until her execution. I couldn’t help but be reminded of the original 3:10 to Yuma. A citizen us entrusted with keeping and safely transporting…
REVIEW: THE RATHBONES by Janice Clark
We moved a lot when I was young. We weren’t military but my father was a federal employee so he took various assignments, mostly up and down the Eastern seaboard. No matter where we lived, we were never very far from the ocean. At times it was only a few steps — which was terrifying…
REVIEW: ASYLUM by John Harwood
Weary, windswept, and wet, a young woman arrives outside Tregannon House, an estate-turned-asylum in somewhere near Cornwall in England. She awakens with little memory of how she got there, or why. She is convinced, however, of her identity as Georgina Ferrars. The only problem is the kind staff at the asylum assure her she…