As with Week One, this introductory bit will be spoiler-free and let's continue to mark any spoilers in the comments below as other readers join us in mid-month. But next Monday, we'll edge up to spoiler-territory and settle in there firmly on the final Monday. Last week we chatted (on
Of course there are readers who gravitate towards fiction set in ancient times, with their battered Mary Renault and Robert Graves paperbacks, their beloved Rosemary Sutcliffe childhood favourites still lining their shelves. Harper Collins, 2012 But just as there were many readers who would never pick up a western but
What makes for a love letter during the Cultural Revolution in China would have Heathcliff and Catherine shaking their heads. Maybe two or three pages of discussing China's excellent international and domestic circumstances, then the fortunate conditions of provincial and city life, and those of friends and class-mates. These formalities
This story was originally published in Ms in September 1978, under the title "The Honeyman's Daughter". Thinking about this changes the focus of the story somewhat because the honey-dumper goes around cleaning toilets. That's his job. And Cora is his granddaughter. Rose greatly admires Cora (and Rose is at the heart
If you don't already follow Black Coffee Poet, you should definitely check it out. (You want a cup of coffee now, don't you? It can't be helped.) Black Coffee Poet started his own reading program -- an alternative to the typical DWM syllabus -- in September 2010 and the posts
