August 10, 2021 Daughters of the Labyrinth by Ruth Padel Reviewed by Lory Widmer-Hess When we went to Crete last October (during a brief window when travel was possible), I knew little of the…
June 29, 2021 The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper Review by Lory Widmer-Hess Ancient Greece and Rome, which formed the foundation of so much in our Western civilization, have been getting a revisionist…
May 6, 2021 Featherweight by Mick Kitson Reviewed by Lory Widmer Hess “A woman has to fight sometimes. It’s as well ya know how.” Annie Loveridge is a fighting woman, and…
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…
