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
There won't be any spoilers in the body of these posts, and as many of you are still reading, let's clearly mark any significant spoilers in the comments. And, speaking of, who is still reading? Who is waiting to be convinced to re-read? Who is planning to read but doesn't
It's not all cozy rooms with lace curtains, plants in pots, ticking clocks, ornaments and coronation mugs, the wireless playing, and tabby cats waiting. It's true that, when A Wreath of Roses opens, Camilla is waiting for the train which will take her to the countryside, to vacation
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,
