Holiday Greetings

December 23, 2015 · by Christina Kaylor | in General | tagged book trees, happy holidays, seasons greetings | Leave a comment

Happy Holidays from your friends at Readers Unbound. We’ll be back in the new year with lots more book reviews, literary field trips, interviews, and various musings on the written word.

What Would You Do if You Were Orphan #8?

December 16, 2015 · by Janet Hogan Chapman | in Book Reviews | tagged Historical Research for Novels, Kim van Alkemade, Lesbians and "Unnatural Tendencies", Orphan #8, Orphan Stories, Orphans used in Medical Experiments, The Fascination of Orphan Stories, The New York Orphan Asylum, The Side-effects of X-rays, Treatment of Orphans Early 20th Century | 5 Comments

Orphans – we are captivated by their stories. From Huck Finn to Oliver Twist to Jane Eyre to Anne Shirley, their stories endure. Even children, perhaps from fearing the unthinkable loss of parents, find orphan stories fascinating. I’m thinking of Madeline, The Box Car Children, The Whipping Boy, and Mary Lennox in her secret garden. […]

The Trickster, Three Nightgowns and an Escalator

December 9, 2015 · by Eve Shulmister | in Craft | tagged Archetypes, Carl Jung, Hermes the Messenger God, How the Meaning of the Caduceus Changed, The African Trickster, The Amorality of Tricksters, The Appeal of Tricksters, The Origin of Hermes' Name, The Trickster, The Trickster and Archetypes, The Trickster and Transformation, The Wily Brer Rabbit, Tom Ripley a Trickster | 7 Comments

Standing on the second floor, looking for the third, I saw the up-escalator wasn’t working. Couldn’t find a clerk, so I headed for the moving stairs that were coming down from third. Why should I ask for directions? The last clerk had been rude and insolent – like it was my fault she hadn’t had […]

The Remarkable Journey of Amanda Kyle Williams: Atlanta’s Rising Queen of Crime Fiction

December 2, 2015 · by Deb Miller | in Author Interviews, The Writing Life | tagged Amanda Kyle Williams, Atlanta in fiction, crime fiction, crime series, famous people who are dyslexic, humor and crime fiction, persistence and success, phonics and reading, reading as craft instruction, writing as pleasure and torment | 12 Comments

From adolescent non-reader to adult writer of crime thrillers, the story of award-winning author Amanda Kyle Williams is as inspiring as it is surprising. Throw in surviving a chemical addiction and endometrial cancer, and it becomes nothing short of miraculous. If you ask Williams how it happened, she’ll tell you it can only be explained […]