While it’s clear that In this Small Spot, Caren J. Werlinger’s abbey epic, is a love story, it is ultimately a book about excess and restraint. The story’s arc is massive, sprawling across five years and numerous memories. It’s a lengthy commitment, but luckily the prose moves along at a nice pace. Werlinger has aRead More
Karelia Stetz-Waters reviews Looking Through Windows by Caren Werlinger
Reading romance novels is bad for you. I read that in graduate school. Actually, I read a whole book to that effect. (Don’t worry. I love the genre. This isn’t a polemic.) To be fair, the study I read looked at heterosexual women. Nonetheless, one can draw some comparisons. The classic romance novel pairs twoRead More