Riffs on Reading

What makes a classic?

—A few ideas sketched out

Patrick O’Brian

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

Jane Austen and her period

Romance of the Regency

—Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and silver fork novels

Mansfield Park

—A review and discussion of Austen’s problematical novel

Riffs on Fantasy

In Defense of Castles, Cloaks ‘n’ Cooks

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