Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields Republic of Love

Olly Olly Oxen Free: Elizabeth Taylor May Read-a-long

The Elizabeth Taylor Centenary has celebrated four novels this year, so far.

May marks our reading of A Game of Hide and Seek.

Who’s in?

Published in 1951 in England, Elizabeth Bowen’s review of the novel reads like this:

“Two masterpiece love stories in our language, Persuasion and Wuthering Heights, have been written by women, [...]