Welcome to Season 2! This season we are taking a look at four excellent female writers from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction: Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers.These authors were writing fiercely intelligent, wonderfully witty, and extraordinarily astute mystery novels in the 1920s and 1930s. Join us for a romp … Continue reading S2 Ep 1: Queens of Crime and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Welcome to our third and final Castle Minisode! This wraps up our first season, so tune in to get your final fix of castles before we move on to season 2! (Spoiler: this minisode has literally nothing to do with castles.)This past autumn we had the pleasure of traveling to The Book Drunkard Literary Festival … Continue reading Castle Minisode 3: The Book Drunkard Festival’s Nod to Maud
For this episode, we are diverting a wee bit from books and authors to give a shout out to Studio Ghibli. This Japanese film production company is a maker of beautiful, whimsical movies that are pure delight.As we mentioned in our Howl's Moving Castle episode, that book was adapted by Studio Ghibli into a film … Continue reading Castle Minisode 2: Studio Ghibli
Hello, folks! After a little break over the winter holidays, we are baaack!To tide you over until our Season 2 debut, we humbly offer the first of three minisodes, which will be released weekly for the next three Wednesdays. These are all mini-episodes that tie, in one way or another, into the books from our … Continue reading Castle Minisode 1: Isabella Valancy Crawford
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