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April 13, 2021

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

Reviewed by Lory Widmer-Hess Schizophrenic. The very word is a trigger for aversion, a signal to run away, with its spiky, spluttered consonants and…

October 15, 2015

The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Stories, by Joan Aiken

Reviewed by Lory Widmer Hess For over sixty years – starting about age sixteen and continuing right up until her death in 2004 –…

October 7, 2015

Suspense with Style: The Novels of Mary Stewart

Written by Lory Widmer Hess “The whole affair began so very quietly.” With the first line of her first novel, Mary Stewart already proclaimed…

July 21, 2015

Seacrow Island, and Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren

Reviewed by Lory Widmer Hess If you’ve been lucky enough to spend summers as a child in a special place, you know that they…

January 29, 2015

The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead

Reviewed by Lory Widmer Hess No two readers can really read the same book. The nuances generated by our particular set of experiences, associations,…

January 19, 2015

The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam

Reviewed by Lory Widmer Hess A witch becomes a friend. A pool of blood turns out to be blackberry juice. A theft turns into…

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