Maddie Rodriguez is a freelance writer and communications specialist who earned her MA in English Literature from the University of Victoria by writing about The Age of Innocence and Gossip Girl (yes, really). When not writing, Maddie can be found reading or watching television; she has Too Many Feelings about both activities, and expresses them via expansive hand gestures or ALL CAPS (depending on how far away the conversation's other party is). Maddie and her fellow reader/writer partner live in Ottawa. They share their apartment with an ever-encroaching tower of books and two calamity-prone cats. Life is never dull. Twitter: @MaddieMuses
An excellent twist can make a book...but what makes a twist excellent?
Extremely bad wigs from famous literary adaptations. Extremely bad. They are not good.
A look at how Tana French subverts sexist tropes about women in THE TRESPASSER.
This year, pick up more big books and don't worry about how many you read in a year.
On the problem at the center of every good Christmas story.
On the depiction of sexual assault in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and its relevance to today's political news.
The Brontes are definitely for fall. Stephen King is for summer.
One reader's notes on a her first year of listening to audiobooks.
Why each new book in a series should have a "previously" section.
On the parallels between The Eagles' "Hotel California" and Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.