Riffs on Reading

—A few ideas sketched out

—A Rambling Look at a Nineteen Novel Story (Updated after #20)

Jane Austen and her period

—Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and silver fork novels

—Austen and the Modern Reader

—A review and discussion of Austen’s problematical novel

—What’s the Allure? A CounterBlast to Diana Wynne Jones’s A Tough Guide to Magic

—A Spoof on Fantasy written 30 years ago

—Here’s a sort-of slice-of-life-and-then-some fictive riff I put on my blog for “Down the Rabbit Hole Day”