3/4/18 review of Nancy Drew novel The Bungalow Mystery

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Nancy Drew novel The Bungalow Mystery, by Carolyn Keene.

The thread gives a summary of the novel and some background on the Nancy Drew series and my experiences reading it. The thread discusses how the book plays with form. It explores a lot of what I call the "femme-social" aspects of the book, as well as some very clear moments of girl-girl attraction and eroticism in the book. The thread also discusses aspects of Nancy's attraction to her father, her wish to have a mother and to be a mother, and her desire to be individualistic and not tied to anybody at all romantically.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is slightly affected as a result. My apologies.

2/23/18 review of novel Cotton Comes to Harlem, by Chester Himes

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the novel Cotton Comes to Harlem, by Chester Himes.

The thread gives a summary of the novel and some background on Chester Himes and how I came to learn of his work. The thread discusses how the novel plays with detective novel conventions, character POVs, and even conventions of realism. The thread also discusses the novel's social layering, action scenes, and moral ambiguities.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is slightly affected. My apologies.