Comedy

Calling Invisible Women

Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray One morning former journalist and unenthusiastic gardening columnist Clover Hobart finds herself inexplicably invisible. Not just unnoticed, a state familiar to all females over […]

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough In keeping with my retro reading theme, I just finished for the dozenth time, Our Hearts Were […]

My Sister, The Serial Killer

My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Whatever you think this book is about– and with such a title the possibilities are many—it’s not. Yes, Sister does bump off […]

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson First published in 1938, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day is a completely silly, dated, and beguiling novel.    Middle-aged Miss […]

Heartburn

Heartburn by Nora Ephron If you haven’t read Ephron’s hysterical first novel,  a thinly disguised account of her marriage and subsequent divorce from the Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein, I […]