As promised, Laurie King is guest blogging here today on a topic and period that for a while now has been of endless fascination to me.  I'm a relatively new convert to the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes mysteries, but trust me, it only takes one book to become addicted.  S...

At the end of February i was voted in as Vice President of the Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society :) The major role of the society is to operate the Upper Yarra Museum which is located at the old railway station in the Victorian town of Yarra Junction in the gorgeous Upper Yarra Valley. The socie...

At the end of February i was voted in as Vice President of the Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society :) The major role of the society is to operate the Upper Yarra Museum which is located at the old railway station in the Victorian town of Yarra Junction in the gorgeous Upper Yarra Valley. The socie...

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After I finished Helen of Troy two weeks ago, I went to the library. I was following up two excellent suggestions from my sister, but as neither of them were in stock, I proceded to rampage through the stacks like a drunken sailor (or drunken English major at least), checking out books as lofty as T...

...reason 4,562,133.  I just don't get the word game.  Why perfectly good words and concepts, that have served us well for, heck, centuries, need to be changed, when, really, nothing else actually changes. What started me off on this rant was reading a picture caption, which we already kno...

First the bad news.  You might already know that I work in a university library.  Earlier this week there was a story in the local newspaper where the president of the university was quoted on the sad state of economic affairs concerning the state'...

The sheriff's department in Chicago's Cook County is suing Cralgslist, claiming the site is the largest source of prostitution in the United States. Um, yeah? [SunTimes] Dare we pick up Jonathan Littell's 1,000-page Nazi-centered novel "The Kindly Ones" which "manages to b...