This Week's Acquisitions

(Grading is finished! I can blog again!)

• Ron Hansen, A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion (Scribner, 2011).  A noirish tale of lust and murder, featuring a sexy woman, her much-loathed husband, and her lover.  Based on a real 1927 murder case.  (Lift Bridge)
• John Harwood, The Asylum (Houghton Mifflin, 2013).  In late-Victorian England, a young woman tries to figure out why she committed herself to an insane asylum--and why she is now trapped there.  (Amazon)
• Janice Holmes, Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859-1905 (Irish Academic Press, 2000).  Comparative study of Victorian revivalism and the responses thereto.  (Amazon [secondhand])