The Twin in the Tavern

This was another cute children's book by Barbara Brooks Wallace. It's about an orphan. (Wallace likes to write about them.) He works for two scummy villains and finds a boy need Beetle who works for them. The two of them barely live off the scraps of the place. Taddy remembers something he heard about him having a twin. But not everything is as it seems. The ending was wrapped up nicely. I read Wallace's Cousins in the Castle, which had an ending which wrapped up nicely too. Except this time there's a nice twist about the twin part of the story I wasn't expecting. There's a lot of chemistry between the characters Beetle and Taddy.

A Woman Killed with Kindness

This was a play written in the 1600's about a man's friend who has an affair with his wife. The husband sends her away to live in isolation where she stops eating as a way to redeem herself from the sin. Guilt is the way that the wife is killed with kindness. In its own way it's a horrific death. There is a subplot of a brother selling his sister for a night to wipe away his gambling debts. Yes there were better plays written around this time but it was ok.

Cousins in the castle

This was a cute children's book that had an ending but wrapped up everything nicely. Amelia goes from being rich to roaming the streets. She becomes an orphan and she comes across a bunch of unsavory adults. The only person who seems decent is the kid Primrose. The gender roles with that character were interesting. I'm interested in reading the author's The Twin in the Tavern and am happy my library has some of her books.