FracTad's Bookshelf

Scandalous Risks is the fourth book in Susan Howatch’s extraordinary Starbridge series that chronicles the lives of three Anglican clergymen: Charles Ashworth, Jon Darrow, and Neville (Stephen) Ayesgarth.

Since 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I decided to read one of my favorite author’s memoir of his travels in America in the early 1920s.

As readers of this blog probably know, Charles Dickens is my favorite author.

Andrew Klavan has become one of my favorite living authors, and his current Cameron Winter series is excellent.

I’m rereading Susan Howatch’s Starbridge Series, and I am noticing all kinds of details and themes I missed the first time around.

I teach math at an all-girls school, so I am always interested in learning about what the culture is like for young women.

Great Expectations is justifiably one of Charles Dickens’ most popular novels.

As the title to this post suggests, Glamorous Powers is the second book in Susan Howatch’s Starbridge Series.

Glittering Images is the first book in British author Susan Howatch’s six-volume Starbridge series.

Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish author writing at the same time as Charles Dickens.

Robert Hugh Benson’s 1907 novel, Lord of the World, might be the first dystopian novel of the modern era.

Roger Simon is a retired Hollywood screenwriter and novelist.

Imagine a black scientist discovered a way to turn black people into white people.

Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is a classic novel set in the years between WWI and WWII.

I have lived in Nashville, TN, practically all of my life.