One of my favorite living children's authors. A funny book about how life changes when your sister becomes your teacher.

Pretty good--I've always had an interest in [b:the history of sexuality|1875|The History of Sexuality An Introduction (Vintage)|Michel Foucault|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158960309s/1875.jpg|5991], and I find homosexuality particularly interesting because it's one of those things that was happening before there were words to express what was happening. I also learned a lot about Walt Whitman.

It's a terrifying book, written like a novel. The first third is about meterology (a new field at the turn of the century), but then things really pick up as the tides rise and the storm hits. Probably his best book.

This is one of the classics in feminist literary theory. It's a survey of British women writers, showing how their womanhood shaped their writing. It both confirms and refutes the idea that there is such a thing as "women's literature" It pleased the former English major in me.

A museum book club choice, so a re-read for me.
One of those classic woman/frontier/men (mostly no-good) epic novels. But a few things make this one special: it's based on the memoirs of Harriet Potter Ames (the main character) and is packed with plenty of scholarly research. So though it's definitely fictionalized history, it's also not exactly made-up. And when you consider her story, that's a pretty amazing thing. Parts of it will hit you straight in the gut.
My only issues with this book are slight ones--the book is framed as Harriet writing out her story for her granddaughter, and in the first third or so, it goes back and forth between present and past. And then for the majority of the last two-thirds, this little narrative trick vanishes. And the ending feels very rushed--there's very little about Harriet's less tumulutous years, and it would have been nice for 10 pages or so about that. Which would have been better spent then the 20-30 pages on the granddaughter choosing a husband.
Still, a page turner and worth checking out, espeically if you have an affinity for frontier stories. It just sounds like a bodice-ripper romance novel. It definitely isn't.