The absolutely true story of two intrepid readers dedicated to sharing their passion with the world. With one in the business of literature and the other in the business of law, there’s no telling what these Kindle-toting madwomen will read. From YA to classics, from mysteries to horror, from the best seller’s list to the dusty shelf in the back of the thrift store, they’re not afraid to say what’s good, what’s passable, and what’s pass-the-lighter-fluid bad.
Because a life unread is a life unlived, their goal is to leave no page unturned!
Kate
A southwestern English teacher turned midwestern law student. In Arizona, she brought books to the youth of America and really did believe that children are our future. In Kansas, she reads such scintilating materials as Marbury v. Madison and the Restatement (Second) of Contracts.
But Kate’s love affair with the written word started humbly. After an elementary-school foundation of “classics” like Encylopedia Brown and The Babysitters’ Club (showing her age, isn’t she?), Kate discovered mass market mysteries in the sixth grade and never once looked back. And while her sophistication may have taken her from Lilian Jackson Braun to Agatha Christie, it doesn’t mean that she can turn down a good who-dun-it.
Or a good YA book. Or chick lit. Or classics. Or — well. You get the idea.
Her five favorite books, in no particular order, are: The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin), The Giver (Lois Lowry), The Birth of Venus (Sarah Dunant), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie), and The Lake of Dead Languages (Carol Goodman). Hey, she never said she had a type.
Elle
Living in the wild woollies of Bonnie Scottish-Land, it’s no big shock that the first exposure Elle had to words she had to remember was giving the Address to a Haggis in nursery school. Having marginally matured since then, she now likes to pretend that she remembers more significant details like why Wilkie Collins is awesome and how many times Captain Flint actually says, “Arr, Jim lad!”
Despite working in an office full of sweaty engineers every day (or maybe because of it), Elle recently bravely schlepped her weary administrative booty to the Open University and asked them very, very nicely if she could maybe, if they don’t mind, please, oh please, let her study for a degree in Literature. They got tired of her pleading on the phone to them every day so they agreed and she’s now communing with Wordsworth and J. M. Barrie whilst heading to work every day content in the knowledge that she knows more about pathetic fallacy and Marxism than all you bitches.
A particular fan of YA, classics, fantasy and historical mysteries, Elle has recently reawakened her love for books that go bump in the night. Elle’s favourite books are scattered all over the literary playing field and couldn’t possibly be summed up but her top five are (in no particular order): A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin), The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins), When God Was A Rabbit (Sarah Winman), Saving Francesca (Melina Marchetta), The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch) and The Birth of Venus (Sarah Dunant).
