Category Archives: reading

Some Recent Research Reading – Late Victorian & Edwardian

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

Over the last few months, I’ve focused my research reading a little more onto the late Victorian and Edwardian periods in English history. First, I highly recommend King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa … Continue reading →

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Bulletproof Kinks

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

In the course of thinking about a new writing project, I’m also reflecting on what I love to read – specifically, those items that, if they appear in a book, will automatically seize my interest as a dog is interested … Continue reading →

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SF Does Austen: A Civil Campaign

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

I recently re-read Lois McMaster Bujold’s A Civil Campaign, which is dedicated to “Charlotte, Jane, Georgette, and Dorothy,” who are of course Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Dorothy Dunnett. There are elements of all those authors in the … Continue reading →

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Historical Mystery Series I Have Loved

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

My mystery-reading binge isn’t quite as overwhelming as it was for a while, but I’m still in that mode, especially feeling a craving for historicals. I’m thinking of doing some rereads. I recommend both of these series very highly. Sarah … Continue reading →

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My Youth With James Bond

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

I have a new post up at The Criminal Element Today: Bond Girl: A Juvenile Fleming Reader, about when I first read the Bond novels.

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Posts at Heroes & Heartbreakers

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

I’ve been away recently on a family matter, but while I was gone, I had a couple new posts go live at Heroes and Heartbreakers: Tea With the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy and Stitch in Snow by Anne McCaffrey. … Continue reading →

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The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

Last month, I read The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colette Moody, mostly because it was a lesbian pirate novel, and I’d never read one before. Plot summary: “The Gulf of Mexico, 1702: When pirates of the … Continue reading →

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Sexual Mores in J.D. Robb

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

One of the ways J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) uses to cue “it’s the future!” in the Eve Dallas mysteries is her portrayal of social/sexual mores. Though the future is noir, rife with horrible murders and serial killers (otherwise, no work … Continue reading →

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Days of Our (Future) Lives: Romance in J.D. Robb

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

One of the reasons J.D. Robb’s mystery series has continued so long, so successfully, is that it has ongoing romantic elements. There’s the main couple, futuristic police detective Eve Dallas and her financier husband Roarke, but there is also a … Continue reading →

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The Jetsons Future of J.D. Robb

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

I’ve been slowly reading the Eve Dallas mysteries by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts), a few at a time, and recently passed number 25 in the series. Even while reading the first in the series, Naked in Death, I’ve thought the … Continue reading →

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