Reviewed by Shilah Gould
Three adult sisters return simultaneously to their childhood home in a midwestern college town and grow closer. In this home, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other people watch. This is a very nice, uplifting book, with loads of Shakespeare thrown in! Adam & Eve by Sena Jeter Naslund is dramatic and intense and filled with religion, warfare, space exploration, and love stories all mixed together. Set against the searing debate between evolutionsts and creationists, Adam & Eve is a thriller, romance, and an adventure. It will take some time to digest when you're done. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen tells the love story of Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney. Although lighthearted, this book is at its core a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. Of all of her novels, this is Austen's most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers.
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