If it had only been made into a film, I'm convinced that Elizabeth Taylor's Palladian would enjoy the same public flourishes of devotion that Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm can claim. Both novels are so bookishly satirical that we bookish folks have to squint to see the satire. But where
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,
April has been my quietest reading month yet, but it has held some fantastic reading, so I'm not complaining. And I was able to join in Dewey's Read-a-Thon at the last minute too. Challenge Reading/Reading Projects: Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child (2012) Manda Scott's Hen's Teeth (1997) Elizabeth Jolley's Miss Peabody's Inheritance (1983) Classic Reading: Homer's The Odyssey and
Final Update for the Spring Readathon: Which hour was most daunting for you? Usually the later hours, but I had so many pauses in this read-a-thon that I didn't have any rough patches. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next
In my early twenties, I bought Cosmopolitan religiously. But I'm not sure that I've ever read a book that was blurbed by Cosmo. Or, if I have, it wasn't also blurbed by Hilary Mantel. But that's the case with Katie Ward's Girl Reading. (Cosmopolitan + Hilary Mantel =
