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Do you love the scandal and intrigue of Victorian dramas?  Try these!

When Toni Morrison gets brought up in conversation, it’s usually about her books The Bluest Eye, Beloved, or Song of Solomon. But her entire eleven-book catalog is worth reading and rereading.  

A satirical musical comedy wrapped in an Archie Comics/Hanna-Barbera IP, Josie and the Pussycats is singular: a cult classic capsulation of pop counterculture in the early 2000s.

This book is a blast from beginning to end. One of the blurbs on the cover says, “as close as you’ll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form,” and after reading it, I think that description encapsulates this book perfectly. 

A Boston family opens up their home to an 11-year-old British girl, during the WWII bombing raids in England.  Beatrix Thompson slowly becomes Bea to the Gregory family; they grow to love her, and she comes to love them with a fierceness that

Willow has such an excellent sound! I don’t know if there’s any music from her that I don’t like, but I really enjoy this rock sound she found.

Willa Cather’s 1918 novel My Antonia follows Antonia Shermida and her family’s story of moving to Nebraska from Bohemia, as told retrospectively through the lens of Antonia’s childhood friend, Jim Burden. 

Do you love a good hotel story?  Try these!

I am unashamed but not proud to say The Ice Pirates is one of my favorite movies. The camp, funny, action-packed, full-throttle 1980s flavor shoulder-pad sci-fi has it all because no one edited any of their ideas.

In a small town in Southern Texas, four generations of Evans women run the local funeral parlor. It’s business as usual for them, that is, until the town gossip rises from the dead.

Do you like to crochet but are looking for new ideas? Try these!

Shrewd businessman Sam Westing is dead, and his will states that one of his 16 heirs killed him.