December 9, 2011
Here in the modern world, it’s nice to maintain healthy, adult relationships with people we’ve slept with. Whether it’s a colleague you had a not-so-secret-but-not-terminal fling with, or an ex who became a friend, or someone you once drunkenly intercoursed with at your friend Sally’s birthday party in Bangkok. Because we’re all sensible, forward thinking ...
August 31, 2010
Money, romance, independence, and the rights of women are central to this Victorian-style novel, The Second Mrs. Darcy. It catches the reader’s attention immediately by proclaiming to a newly widowed young woman that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ...
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