She teases the reader intellectually rather in the way that Gertrude Stein used to tease, by a strange use of repetition, and by often using silliness as a route to the exploration of seriousness.

ECONOMIST: New verse

Also because she teases me.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall with Students in Mumbai

The author, Cecelia Holland, mostly writes historical fiction, and she has an eye for narrative that really teases out motivations and a feel for what the era was like.

FORBES: The Weekly E-Reading List