The Green Room

This blog is now retired, but feel free to browse. Links to my book lists from past years are available on the sidebar, and those should lin...

34. Blackout by Connie Willis 33. The Ghosts of Berlin by Brian Ladd 32. Trace by Sam Starbuck 31. Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce 30. ...

Just popping in to post a couple of links I thought worth passing on.  Gender Gap on Wikipedia in the New York Times. Funny facial hair...

I've already unintentionally stopped blogging, having not posted in the last week, but now I'm going to make it official. I'm in...

Louise Brooks, the woman who supposedly popularized bobbed hair in the 1920s. I'm starting to think about my senior thesis this week, ...

I've been watching Downton Abbey, the recent BBC miniseries that's now showing on PBS. We've had two episodes so far, out of f...

Women of the Klan , by Kathleen Blee, tells the story of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization which existed in concert to the 1920...

When Sherlock first aired on the BBC last August, there was a lot of talk about it. I started the first episode, and didn't even get a...

109 cats in sweaters. Beautifully calm and simple photography by Glen Erler . The Lives They Left Behind : Suitcases from a State Hospi...

Bingo in the summer, New Ulm, Minnesota, circa 1975. Photo by Flip Schulke, thanks to the U.S. National Archives.  I'm craving summer,...