Oh this book. I'm reading two heavy nonfiction books right now also, and try as I might, and as much as I'm enjoying them, I need breaks from nonfiction! So this weekend I picked up this book, which apparently I had reserved after reading a review? I usually love reading tales of "Southern High S...
Early in her career, Sarah Bird wrote a clutch of romance novels as Tory Cates – a pseudonym that might be translated as "conservative delicacies," which almost sums up the damsels-and-rakes genre in a phrase. But genre fiction is too limiting for a writer as irrepressibly clever as Bird, whose n...