Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the unique challenges of life for people whose noses are always wedged in a book. See past guides here. There was a time when I likely never would have picked up Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, with its dark and […]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say, even in the book world. There are plenty of great parody novels out there (Sherlock Holmes pastiches alone could fill up their own bookstore section), but some novels that begin life as commentary or satire on a genre later prove to be lasting entrants into that genre’s canon. We’ve […]