A Game of Hide and Seek: Chatter, Week One

2014-03-17T13:44:21-04:00

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

A Game of Hide and Seek: Chatter, Week One2014-03-17T13:44:21-04:00

Elizabeth Taylor: A Wreath of Roses

2014-03-17T13:24:29-04:00

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

Elizabeth Taylor: A Wreath of Roses2014-03-17T13:24:29-04:00

Elizabeth Taylor: Palladian (A Virago Modern Classic)

2023-10-12T15:31:16-04:00

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

Elizabeth Taylor: Palladian (A Virago Modern Classic)2023-10-12T15:31:16-04:00

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

2014-03-17T13:23:43-04:00

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,

Olly Olly Oxen Free: Elizabeth Taylor May Read-a-long2014-03-17T13:23:43-04:00

Elizabeth Taylor: A Must-Read-Everything Author

2014-03-15T18:58:18-04:00

We were introduced in 2001, when an English reading friend recommended her novel Angel to me, which I read in a single day. It immediately seemed like one of those books with which I'd always been familiar. And its author was secured on my Must Read Everything list. Inside my

Elizabeth Taylor: A Must-Read-Everything Author2014-03-15T18:58:18-04:00
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