Now that we are in the Winter Holiday time, sit back and relax with a Christmas story from the Peter White Public Library. There are so many to choose from! T
How do you know that a book is a mystery? That question came up at one of our Mystery Book Club meetings at the Library. I shared the answer as I know it with both the Book Club and the I love a mystery column. I had a recent request from one of our...
Spy Novels Made Me a Better Black Woman Writer
How novelist Aya de León challenged the James Bond trope and found her voice. Jan 12 2021, 2:45 pm EST
When I was a senior in high school, I had an older boyfriend in community college. I watched my first 1960s James Bond movies with him. “Connery was the only real Bond,” he told me with his confident, lopsided grin. He was mad that George Lazenby, not Sean Connery, starred in the one Bond movie where the spy fell in love. His wife is killed right after the wedding, so Bond is technically a widower.