Ethel Wilson's The Equations of Love Macmillan, 1952 When Melwyk said that she, too, only had this one Ethel Wilson left to read, we decided to read the two novellas published in Equations of Love together. You know how it is, when you are about to exhaust a favoured writer's
Antony Trollope's The Warden (1855) Random House, 2003 When a reading friend first got bitten by the Trollope bug a few years back, I rushed out to buy a copy of this novel, the first in his Barsetshire series; of course I intended to read it immediately, but you know
John McNally's After the Workshop Counterpoint, 2010 Not just another bookish Friday, nope: this bookish-book Friday comes to you thanks to Sasha and the Silverfish, whose rave post about John McNally's novel ensured its placement -- and her acknowledgement -- in my Bad Blogger's category. The TwentyTen Reading Challenge demands
I took some courses in university in Japanese History and read a fair number of novels then, but, since, I have read Japanese authors spottily. One particular favourite, however, is Banana Yoshimoto and I still have one of her works to look forward to: Hardboiled and Hard Luck Trans. from
A couple of weekends ago, I was able to attend an event which included three novelists from Africa: Brian Chikwava (Zimbabwe), Carole Enahoro (Nigeria) and Ngūgī wa Thiong'o (Kenya). They focussed on the following works, respectively: Harare North, Doing Dangerously Well, and Dreams in a Time of War. And, so,
