Beyond Retro: Getting Crazy with a Victorian Airship and Some Immortals on the Side

What do an early twentieth-century California tuberculosis camp, airships, and immortals in Egypt have in common? I’m still not really sure…only they all came together in the selection I am covering for this month’s “Beyond Retro.” I came across Marie Corelli, a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writer a few...

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Blameless, by Gail Carriger

  Blameless by Gail Carriger “The Parasol Protectorate,” Book 3   From Amazon.com…. Quitting her husband’s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can...

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