Lark Writes...on books and life

At the heart of George Eliot's novel is young Maggie Tulliver and her brother, Tom. Their father is a simple mill owner who loves hi...

George Orwell and H. G. Wells.  Two influential English novelists.  If I had to choose between them, I'd probably pick Wells. But they ...

"...the only thing I could do was to write a book, and the only kind of book I could write was about people I knew..." Strapp...

I wish there was a way to weed out the so-so books from the "So good!" books before  I bought them, or checked them out of the l...

Happy First Day of Summer!

Ethan Frome drove in silence ... he seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was war...

The fourteen Oz books written by L. Frank Baum dominated the reading landscape of my childhood. We owned seven of them; the library had the ...