Shandy
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Theodora Goss:
I'm absolutely inhaling The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter and am thrilled to hear there will be a sequel! In the meantime, can you recommend any particularly enjoyable nonfiction works that you encountered in your doctoral research? (Best dissertation topic ever, in my opinion!)
Theodora Goss
I'm so glad you like it. :) I do have some recommendations, although honestly, most of what I read for the dissertation was literary criticism, which isn't exactly fun reading. But I really liked Stephen T. Asma's On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, which is a really interesting book for any reader, not just a geeky grad student. More technical is George Stocking's Victorian Anthropology, which is dense but very well-written. And then, not for the dissertation but for the book, I liked Liza Picard's Victorian London, which is about London 18-40-1870, just before the period I was studying, and a really fun, smart book is How to be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life by Ruth Goodman. The Goodman and Asma are the most fun and accessible, but they're all interesting. Happy reading! :)
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Melissa
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Theodora Goss:
Loving your Athena Club series, Ms. Goss!! As a personal fan of the books and characters from which you've drawn so much material, and a Brit Lit High School teacher, these are a dream come true. Delicious! A scrumptious literary buffet. Any chance these could be turned into a series for television? They would be so incredibly wonderful as a teaching resource!
David
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Theodora Goss:
I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed "The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter". How difficult was it to write the novel with the constant interruptions, complaints and critiques from your characters? Thanks again for a great book. I'm impatiently waiting for the sequel. Please hurry next summer!
Susanj
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Theodora Goss:
Loved The Strange Case of The Alchemist's Daughter! Now, into the sequel. Any thoughts of turning it into a screenplay/adapting it to the screen? LOVE, that it was female centered. I am currently working on a female centered novel about family and friends and their trials and tribulations in an idyllic Midwestern town. Another must read-> Who Cooked The Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles
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