Touting itself as the story of a grandmother (Jessie Kaplan) who begins having flashbacks of her life as the mysterious Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets, this book piqued my interest as I was browsing the shelves at my favorite used book store. Having read it, I now quite agree with another rev...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that, ninety percent of the time, under favorable circumstances, and in moderately believable situations, an attempt at modernizing a Jane Austen plot cannot fail. Although I would not go so far as to say that "Jane Austen In Boca" is my most favorite Austen...
and Miss Sargent were downstairs. “They say to tell you as you don’t have to see ’em if you don’t want, as they don’t want to disturb you if you’re resting.” It was a typical sort of message from the Sargents, who were always extravagantly polite and unassuming. They had a...