Grand Re-Opening!

This is the first issue of Estella's Revenge to appear in over a year, and we hope it's one of many to come. Heather, Melissa, and Andi all missed bringing you content, so we couldn't stay away any longer. Admittedly, this first issue is a little slim, but there's more to come in November. Andi is planning a column on e-books, we'll continue to spotlight independent and small presses, and we already have some reviews and other goodies in the works.

For now, please enjoy the fantastic contributions including the inside story of a small press as its created, an interview with historical fiction author, Elizabeth Chadwick, and some great reviews of books you may not have encountered in your bloggy travels.

Thanks for stopping by, and we'll see you again in November!

Note: To keep things looking clean and tidy, we have this post on the front page, and you can navigate through the other content by using "Table of Contents" labeled August 2010 on the right-hand side of your screen.

Letter From the Editor

Taste. We all have different tastes in what we like to read. Some like everything, but most have their favorites be it historical fiction, mystery, non-fiction, comics and more. The one thing we all have in common is a love of words and the new and exciting worlds all books bring to us. This month we invite you to celebrate these tastes with us. See you next month for a little "Culture."

If anyone is interested in contributing to Estella's Revenge, be in a column, feature or book review, let us know by emailing us at estellabooks at gmail dot com. We would love to work with you!

Heather

Table of Contents

March Winners of DROOD

Features:

I Like...
Assistant Editor's Month

Columns:

Sure I Know the Queen, March 2009
Families in Fiction

Reviews:

The Darcys and the Bingleys
Pemberly by the Sea
A Perfect Waiter
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
The Ever-After Bird
Jane Austen Ruined My Life
The Truth About Forever
Hunger Games
Galway Bay

Letter from the Editor - March 2009

Wow. So. Hi there! This is my first "Letter from the Editor." It feels a little bit like I've been given the keys to the castle; so to speak. I can do whatever I want! The power!! Mwahahaha!

Just kidding! And don't worry about our fearless leader Andi. She's swamped with work, so I stepped up to the plate.

I am so excited to bring you the latest edition of Estella's Revenge. This month's theme was "Classics." What is a Classic? According to Wiktionary, a classic is:






Here you will find the musings of our writers about Classics. Who reads them? What are they? What are the becoming? And of course, a few reviews thrown in for good measure. I hope you enjoy this issue of Estella's Revenge and I look forward to "seeing" you again in April!


~ Heather


Table of Contents

• Door Prize and Book Giveaway

Interviews:

• Joshua Henkin

Features:

• Who Watches the Watchmen?
• The Evolution of the Classic
• Who Reads Classic Novels?
• All in the Family

Columns:

• Sure I Know the Queen, March 2009

Reviews:

• Drood
• The Porcupine Year
• The Madonna of the Almonds
• The Parliament of Blood
• Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
• A Lovely Little War
• The Book of Unholy Mischief
• The Outlander
• Somewhere in Heaven

Letter From the Editor - February 2009

The candy is on the shelves, the card companies are dancing over their marketing reports, and people are ready to celebrate love. There was no better choice of theme than "desire" this time around.

Whether you suffer from a wicked case of book lust, are looking for a new literary couple through which to live vicariously, or you need new books to add to your stacks, you can find it all in this issue.

Table of Contents

Door Prize Book Giveaway

Interviews:

• John Shors, author
• Lane Smith, author/illustrator

Features:

• Literary Lovers
• I Have to Have That Book!
• Does Whatever an Obama Can
• For the Love of Picture Books

Columns:

• Families in Fiction, Feb. 2009
• Sure, I Know the Queen, Feb. 2009

Reviews:

• Dooley Takes the Fall
• Daylight Runner
• Everything Beautiful
• Paper Towns
• Princess of the Midnight Ball
• Madam President
• Beside a Burning Sea

Letter From the Editor - January 2009

What better way to start 2009 than with an issue themed, "Firsts"? For myself, and for most of the readers I know, the beginning of a new year means the beginning of new adventures in reading. For many of us 2009 will be peppered with new favorites, new reading friends, and challenges. We hope the stinkers will be few and far between, and while we're not above buying books for the most part, it would be nice if truckloads of freebies would appear magically at our respective doors.

While we will achieve some of our goals, we will fail at others, but the joy of a new reading year is the promise of possibility...all those books that might delight and touch us. Here at Estella's Revenge 2009 promises to be a year of writing, reading, and fellowship in both endeavors. Thank you for coming along for the ride!

Andi

Table of Contents

Door Prize Book Giveaway: This One is Mine, by Maria Semple

Feature Articles:

• Firsts in One Bookish Little Life
• Webcomics
• The Anatomy of First
• Firsts and (Sometimes) Seconds
• Firsts

Columns:

• Families in Fiction, January 2009

Reviews:

• This One is Mine, by Maria Semple
• Two Books by Georgette Heyer: Charity Girl and Regency Buck
• Two Girls of Gettysburg, by Lisa Klein
• The Musician's Daughter, by Suzanne Dunlap
• Queen of the Road, by Doreen Orion
  

Letter From the Editor - December 2008

Happy holidays, Estella's Revenge readers! This month's theme is "fantasy," and though it's a short issue, the pieces are most definitely fantastic!

While 2008 winds down, 2009 certainly holds a great deal of new opportunities and developments here at Estella's Revenge. Some things to think about:

Would you like to join the 2009 Year of Reading Dangerously Challenge? We hope you will! This year it'll be even easier. There won't be any required reads, though you may refer to our "suggested titles" list to get some ideas. All you have to do is read 12 books you deem "dangerous" in 2009 and post your links on the Year of Reading Dangerously blog. Watch for the new Mr. Linky to appear in January. In the meantime keep an eye out for new graphics and new posts.

Interested in writing for Estella's Revenge? If you have an idea for a column, feature article, or any other goodies you'd like to contribute please contact us! You can reach Heather, Andi, and Melissa at estellabooks(at)gmail(dot)com. We would love to work with you!

And if you haven't already, be sure to check out Estella on Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook! See the sidebar for links.

Happy holidays, and cheers to a new year just around the corner!

Table of Contents

• "Door Prize" Book Giveaway - The Stolen Child, by Keith Donohue
  

Author Interview:

• Howard Whitehouse

Features and Columns:

• Where Have All the Goblins Gone?
• A Fantasy World
• Back to the 90s: Clone Saga
  

Reviews:

• The Triumph of Deborah
• The Sugar Queen
• Album of the Damned: Snapshots from the Third Reich
• Chasing Windmills

Letter From the Editor - November 2008

With the holidays just around the corner, people tend to spend a little more time counting their blessings. Whether you consider yourself a religious person or not, I think we can all agree that it's positive to sit back and ruminate on the good things in our lives. For most of us, our blessings include books and the time we can afford to devote to reading, so this month's issue is a tasty spread of new books, old books, and lots of good books that you might add to your collection. Enjoy the "blessings" issue.

Table of Contents:

Author Interviews:

• Christine Son
• Jennie Shortridge

Articles:

• The Year of Reading
• 10 Bookish Things to Be Grateful For
• OP/ED: The Loss of Spider-Girl
• Spider Girl: The End

Columns:

• Sure, I Know the Queen, November 2008

Reviews:

• The Bookshop
• Evernight
• The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir
• Tell the World: Teen Poems from WritersCorps
• The Affinity Bridge
• Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
• The Graveyard Book
• The Shoe Queen

Letter From the Editor - October 2008

October's here along with snappy fall weather and trick-or-treating just around the corner. It's decision time here at Estella, the "Decisions" issue, that is.

In the spirit of decisions, Andi wants you to know that she's made the decision to sit out for a few months. Thanks to work and school, she's pretty well swamped, which means Heather F. is at the helm and doing a great job! Stepping in to help keep Estella on track, the ever lovely Melissa has taken on the role of Book Review Editor.

Let's have a round of applause for the Estella's Revenge team--editors, writers, and all. And without you, readers, we wouldn't have any reason to post every month! Thanks for your ongoing support. Now, pull up a mug of hot chocolate and a bowl of candy corns and come along for some decisions.

Table of Contents:

October Door Prize

• Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal & Other Dangerous Pursuits

Author Interview

• Colleen Gleason

Features:

• Intellectual Freedom and Those Who Love It
• Big Books, Big Choices...
• Virgin No More
• So Many Books

Columns:

• Back to the 90s: The Death of Superman

Reviews:

• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• Rape: A Love Story
• The Bullet Trick
• When Twilight Burns
• Blue Genes: A Memoir of Loss and Survival
• Urban Italian: Simple Recipes and True Stories From a Life in Food
• Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal & Other Dangerous Pursuits
• The Twilight Zone: The After Hours/Walking Distance
• Two Parties, One Tux & a Very Short Film About 'The Grapes of Wrath'
• What If...?

Letter From the Editor, September 2008

Late again! Andi is the slacker, and she freely admits it. Between the pressures of school, work, family, and life, Andi and Heather are currently working on a solution to bring Estella's Revenge to your computer screen in a timely fashion without sacrificing content. Hang with us, we're not going anywhere, just streamlining.

The September issue is an issue close to all our hearts: controversy. Readers almost inevitably have a relationship with controversy. Whether by choice or by chance, readers encounter controversy in their reading material, in the reactions of others (think Harry Potter and book challenging), and readers often have an opinion on everything thanks to reading. Whether you're a politico or no, a liberal or conservative, a type A or a type B, embrace controversy...at least for the duration of September.

Table of Contents:

Features:

• Comics Never Forget
• Ten Ways of Starting a Literary Argument
• Who Ya Gonna Call?
• Book Tour: Spokane, Washington and Portland, Oregon
• Orange Prize

Column:

• Sure, I Know the Queen, September 2008

Reviews:

• Book of Love
• Into the Wild
• Savage Machinery
• Undone
• Breaking Dawn
• Rules for Saying Goodbye
• The Carhullan Army
• Out
• Down to a Sunless Sea
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
  

Letter from the Editor, August 2008

Next to Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, August is probably one of the busiest months for the dear writers at Estella's Revenge. Getting kids back to school, getting ourselves back to school, and the end-of-summer malaise means we have a light load for you this month. However, I do hope you'll enjoy our foray into "knowledge" and discover a new book to help you out of any summer blues you might be experiencing.

Best wishes for good reading,

Andi

Table of Contents

Author Interview:

• J. Scott Savage

Feature Articles:

• Know-It-All Awards, by Stuart Sharp
• The Fruit of Knowledge, by April D. Boland
• Now What? by Chris Buchner

Columns:

• Sure, I Know the Queen, August 2008
• Back to the 90s: Fatal Attractions, Part 2

Reviews:

• Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
• Rapunzel's Revenge
• The Traitor Game
• Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
• Farworld: Water Keep
• The Penelopiad

Letter from the Editor, June/July 2008

Whether it's summer reading programs or beach books, it seems that everyone is searching for the perfect summer tome. Summer reading is apparently different from reading for the rest of the year. For some of us. Those of us in education or those of us who are still students can enjoy lazy summers of endless reading. However, for most people endless days of summer reading are just myths perpetuated by publishing companies.

This special double issue of Estella's Revenge focuses largely on summer reading and its accompanying myths. Enjoy interviews, articles, columns and a slew of reviews to help you find that perfect book--summer or otherwise.

Andi

Table of Contents:

Author Interviews

• Jane Johnson
• Daphne Grab
• Diana Birchall

Articles

• Reading Outside, by Stuart Sharp
• Beach Reading, by Elaine Simpson-Long
• The Comic Assembly Line, by Chris Buchner
• How I Spend My Summers, by Miss Havisham

Columns

• Back to the 90s: Fatal Attractions, by Chris Buchner
• Sure, I Know the Queen, June/July 2008, by Jodie
• From My Bookshelf, June/July 2008, by Lisa Guidarini

Reviews

• An Irish Country Doctor and An Irish Country Village
• The Tenth Gift
• Troy
• Alive and Well in Prague, New York
• War of the Witches
• Apocalypse How
• 5 Shots
• Marie-Therese, Child of Terror
• Sovay
• Girl Meets Boy
• Jumble Pie
• The Poem I Turn To

Letter from the Editor, May 2008

The summer travel season is upon us, and if you're anything like me, gas prices could well keep you at home. The good news is, this month you can travel along with the Estella's Revenge writers through myriad topics bold and bookish. Whether you're out to create your own travel journal or just want to relax with a book to sweep you away, we hope you'll find something here that's to your liking.


We're currently accepting submission for our June issue--"Summer!"--so if you have any writing you'd like to share or book reviews to pass along, drop us an e-mail at estellabooks(at)gmail(dot)com. All submissions are due by the 25th of May.


Andi


Table of Contents

Door Prize Book Giveaway


Feature Articles

• A Sense of Place, by Stuart Sharp
• An Ode to Travel Books, by Melissa
• Voice of Dissent: The Hours, by Heather F.
• Dos-a-Dos Travel Journal, by Iliana
• It Came from the 50 Cent Bin (Comic Cents II), by Chris Buchner
• It's Not Easy, Being Green, by Heather F.

Columns

• Sure, I Know the Queen, May 2008, by Jodie
• Back to the 90s: Knightfall, by Chris Buchner

Reviews

• The Patron Saint of Butterflies
• Master
• Exodus
• Cathedral of the Sea
• Bizarre New World: Population Explosion

Letter from the Editor, April 2008

Growth is perhaps one of our most multi-faceted themes to date. Personally, this theme calls to mind the best and worst of what it means to edit an e-zine. When I started this project several years ago it was a very different undertaking than it is now. As a broad-based humanities publication we struggled to keep the momentum going as we were covering so many different topics, I was a crazy woman and the writers burned out.

Now that we focus exclusively on our collective first love, things are smoother. It's easier to get material, easier to come up with themes, easier in every way, really.

That's not to say that we don't hit bumps every now and then. I'm sure I can speak for myself along with the majority of the writers in saying, projects like this are a labor of love. As with any labor of love, life often gets in the way. Personally, I teach college writing courses at two schools (one full-time, one part-time), I squeeze in writing for pay, I attempt to maintain a family and social life, and I think about this 'zine every step of the way.

It's tough to keep going sometimes, and that's especially true as Spring has sprung, the school year is winding down, there's a garden to tend, plants to grow, students to conference with, meals to cook, a house to clean, a puppy pulling at my pant leg, and creativity to nurture. It makes me tired just thinking about it.

However, along with all the busy schedules and headaches, I feel a growing and renewed fervor for what Heather and the writers and I do here at Estella's Revenge. As we grow in our reading and writing, so do the challenges before us, the changes that need to be made, and the responsibility to keep this publication alive and flourishing.

With growth in mind, keep an eye out in coming months for some changes here at Estella's Revenge. You can expect some differences in the look of the place, some additions to our sidebar, and maybe even some Estella's Revenge merchandise. It would be great to continue growing, gain additional credibility in the book blogging world, and even maybe pay our writers a little something for all the hard work they do. It's with your continued support that we can mold Estella's Revenge into a continually legitimate and informative e-zine.

I have to admit, I was a little concerned when we began gathering pieces for this month's issue as the submissions seemed at an all time low...a trickle at best. However, with one e-mail asking for material and a lot of creativity on the writers' part, I actually think this might be the very best issue we've ever turned out.

Thanks to you readers and all the writers for everything. You make my days brighter.

Andi

Table of Contents

Author Interview: A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically

Feature Articles:

• Going Green? Anyone? Yes!, by Heather F.
• Growing Pains, by Andi Miller
• Voice of Dissent: The Book Thief, by Melissa
• Personal Growth: Tackling the Self-Help Universe, by Lisa Guidarini
• Booklover...Will Travel, by S.A. Harris
• Growing Up in the Secret Garden, by April D. Boland
• Growth of a Fanboy, by Chris Buchner

Book Reviews:

• A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
• Life Class
• Resistance
• Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
• Ten Cents a Dance
• The Secret Between Us
• The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
• One Thousand White Women

Letter from the Editor, March 2008

Everyone has a history, especially readers. Aside from one's own personal history, the history of a person's reading can be just as rich and varied as the everyday details of life.

Such is the case in my own life, I feel. From a childhood of fancy and a proclivity for all things paranormal, to my rebellious teen years reading postapocalyptic fiction, to my days as an art student reading biographies of enigmatic painters and sculptors, to my current life as a college English instructor and my penchant for literary fiction, classics, and comic books. Each step in my personal history reflects in my reading history. And what fun it is to look back and marvel at the changes.

One reader's history can encompass a universe of experience. Three cheers for the colorful past.

Andi


Table of Contents, March 2008

March "Door Prize" Giveaway: The New Yorkers, by Cathleen Schine (autographed)

Author Interviews:

• Mary Doria Russell, author of Dreamers of the Day
• Sara Zarr, author of Story of a Girl

Featured Articles:

• The Middle Ages: A User's Guide, by Stuart Sharp
• I'm Ready for My Close-up, Mr. DeFalco: Blurring the Lines of Film and Comics, by Chris Buchner
• How I Came to Love Reading, by Richard Marmo
• Voice of Dissent: An Uncensored Diatribe on The Time Traveler's Wife, by Corinna Carlson

Reviews:

• West with the Night
• The Other Book
• Dreamers of the Day
• Mothernight
• No Place for Ladies
• Cotillion
  

Letter from the Editor, February 2008

This month's "changes" theme strikes close to the heart of my reading life. Since I finished my Master's degree in Summer '07 I've had a luxury I hadn't felt for several years prior to its end. Time to read whatever I want. Now, several months later and with a new full-time college teaching position and lots of writing to do, my uninterrupted reading time has taken a hit, but I still feel the rush of joy in picking up whatever strikes my fancy. Both my fancies and my reading habits seem to have shifted over the years, from the time I started graduate school in 2005 to now.

I suppose there are a number of factors at work including the few years of crunched reading higher education provided, the restrictions, and subsequently the new authors I was exposed to. Modernist writers I wouldn't have picked up otherwise. Young adult and children's books. Comics and graphic novels. While the deadlines loomed large, I certainly sampled an array of books I might never have picked up without the pressure of an education, and somewhere along the way it all seems to have changed me.

Now, after a lifetime of detesting short stories, I can't seem to get enough of them. I gobble up collections by classic authors, respected authors, new-t0-me authors and indies. They sneak into my stacks one after another without fail, and I see them piling up on my wishlist day after day. I buy literary journals, for heaven's sake. Publications like Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and Swink. Publications I never knew existed until I jumped headlong into the short story literary subculture.

Another obvious change is my affinity for audio books. For years I was convinced that audio books put me to sleep. One chance nap while listening to my first audio book attempt...The Picture of Dorian Gray...and I swore them off. A hasty decision on my part? Oh, sure. But one that stuck for a great many years, sadly. Now, faced with a 68-mile round-trip commute every day, I need something other than radio prattle to keep me going, and audio books seem to be just the ticket.

It's amazing to me the changes a reader goes through. While we may love and adore one genre this year, we might foresake it the next. While one author may live in our thoughts endlessly one day the next day he's tossed aside. Not only do the readers change, the genres, books, and technology change, too. I'm suffering from a serious case of "Kindle-lust" as we speak. Damn Amazon and their nifty inventions.

The readerly changes we all undergo are just another reason to celebrate this hobby, habit, way of life. As always, the writers have done a wonderful job interpreting the theme, and I invite you to explore your own "changes" here with us.

Andi

Table of Contents, February 2008

"Door Prize" Book Giveaway

Author Interview: Colleen Gleason

Featured Articles:

A Reader's Evolution

Why I Suddenly Love Poetry

Marvel Loathes Mary Jane

One More Day, One World Changed

Columns:

Book News: "Titlepage"

From the Bookshop

Reviews:

The Bleeding Dusk

Saving Juliet

The Winter Rose

When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden

If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny

Letter from the Editor, January 2008

Pardon the cheesy graphic to my left. I absolutely could not contain myself.

Yes, yes, the theme for this month's issue is "possibilities." And what better theme to describe the first month and the first issue of 2008?

If you're anything like me--jaded, cynical, snarky--you might still be enamored with the coming of a new year. For me, the new year is about a number of possibilities. Since I teach college English, I get a new batch of students, and that's always exciting. No matter how long I teach (five years now) or how irked the Fall semester might leave me, I always look forward to a new bunch of students and a new opportunity to do my job a little better.

On the reading front, the new year is an exciting time, too. I enjoy making lists of what I've read throughout the year, tallying up my "Best of" recap to share with my bloggy friends, and starting a new year of reading means the hope of hunting literary gems.

I want to thank you all who are coming back to join Estella's Revenge for the second year. And a big welcome aboard to any new readers out there! Cheers to a year of possibilities!

Ciao for now,

Andi

January 2008 Issue

Letter from the Editor

Author Interview: Jennifer Donnelly
Author Interview: Sarah Bower
Author Interview: Susan Vaught

"Door Prize" Book Giveaway - An Infamous Army

"I Was Lost, But Now I'm Found"
"New Things from Old Favourites"
"Wonderful World of What If?"
"Discussable: The Amazon Kindle"
"Embracing the Possibilities"

From the Bookshop, January 2008

Review: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Review: Finn: A Novel
Review: On Borrowed Wings
Review: Big Fat Manifesto

Letter from the Editor, December 2007

Welcome to the final installment of Estella's Revenge of 2007. In the spirit of the holidays and in order to give our writers (and editors) a break, this issue is a brief collection of reviews that our writers found themselves moved to contribute.

As you know, the ER contributors hold down jobs and families and busy reading lives, and as most people do, we find ourselves inundated with responsibility this time of year (I'm drowning in essays to grade as we speak).

I hope you'll join us for a brand new issue on January 1st as we kick off another year of Estella's Revenge and the beginning of the "My Year of Reading Dangerously" challenge.

Thank you, readers, for all you've done for us this year. We're very pleased with the progress this 'zine has made in such a short time, and we wouldn't have the "oomphf" to keep going if it wasn't for you.

And to the Estella's Revenge writers, Heather and I send our very best wishes to you this holiday season. Thanks for your neverending support and fantastic contributions.

Andi

Letter from the Editor, November 2007

Fall is finally here (for some of us), and with the changing seasons comes a desire to relax, snuggle down with a book, and take comfort in cooler weather and falling leaves.

Whether your idea of a supremely comfortable book is a shocking thriller, a Regency romance or a children's book, I hope you can take comfort in this newest issue of Estella's Revenge to warm you on those chilly evenings.

We have a treasure trove of goodies for you this month, including the announcement of the 2008 "My Year of Reading Dangerously" Challenge hosted by the editors of Estella's Revenge.

I hope you enjoy this month's installment. Pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable.

Andi

Table of Contents:

My Year of Reading Dangerously Announcement

November 2007 Door Prize - The Call of the Weird, by Louis Theroux

Interview: Anthony Barilla

Interview: Audrey Niffenegger

Interview: Dewey and the 24-Hour Read-A-Thon

Feature: A Case for Georgette Heyer

Feature: Comics from the Crypt

Feature: The Comfort Zone

Feature: Comfort Food - Cookies!

Snazzy Stuff - Bibliochaise

Column: Judging a Book, November 2007

Column: Sure, I Know the Queen, November 2007

Review: Lottery

Review: Lost Souls

Review: April and the Dragon Lady

Review: An Infamous Army

Review: Ophelia

Letter from the Editor, October 2007

October is the favorite month of many a devoted reader for the frighteningly wonderful book choices it offers. Whether you're celebrating the coming of Halloween or the stirrings of autumn, October is a perfect time to snuggle down with a book and lose yourself.

This month's "unknown" theme afforded the Estella's Revenge writers a wide array of topics from which to choose, and they certainly delivered in a big way.

Enjoy your journey with us into the unknown.

Andi

*The beautiful poppet image above is copyright to the artist Lisa Snellings-Clark. Visit her website and view her gallery HERE.

Letter from the Editor, September 2007

When I thought of the "confessions" theme for this month, it was hot on the heels of a friend's thesis defense in which he talked about confession in the works of Philip Roth. While I find confession within literature interesting, for certain, I--as a bibliophile--have a number of personal confessions to make.

• -I have more books than I will probably ever read.

-I am something of an elitist at times, even though I try to shirk off my judgements of books by their covers.

-I guiltily peek at people's book covers on park benches, on planes, in restaurants, and anywhere else I might find them.

-I have crushes on literary characters.

In short, I've done just about everything that the Estella's Revenge writers have confessed to this month. I hope you have just as much fun reading our literary confessions as we had writing them.

I'd also like to send out good wishes to Estella's Revenge co-editor and bibliophile extraordinaire, Heather F. She's preparing for the arrival of her second baby bibliophile.

Andi