Hello, lovely readers,
It’s been some time since I last wrote to you (or wrote a book review, as a matter of fact…). Spring term has just begun here in Germany, so during the past weeks I was quite busy preparing lectures, helping students with their papers and – in between – trying to move forward with my own research project.
Nonetheless, here I am again, diving into a few more reading projects, as if there were no tomorrow…
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Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz Readalong
Ms. Arachne over at A Canon of One’s Own and I are planning a Readalong of Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz Selected Works. The idea is to read and review the book until May, 31th. As always, you are welcomed to join in!
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works, tr. Edith Grossman (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, 240 p.
We are reading Edith Grossman’s translation (see reference above), but, if you have another edition, no problem: the comparison could also be interesting.
Other editions:
- Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Selected Writings, tr.
- Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings, tr.
- A Woman of Genius: The Intellectual Autobiography of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden (Lime Rock Press, 1982, 104 p.)
Overviews:
- Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith, by Octavio Paz, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden (Belknap Press, 1990, 564 p.);
- Sor Juana y su mundo: una mirada actual, by
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Margaret Kennedy Day
Hosted by Jane over at Beyond Eden Rock, Margaret Kennedy Day will take place on June the 20th this year. I’ll be reading The Forgotten Smile (1961), from my Classics Club List.
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Beryl Bainbridge Reading Week
Hosted by Gaskella over at Annabel’s House of Books, the Beryl Bainbridge Reading Week will take place from June 13th – 19th this year. I’ll be reading Harriet Said
That’s all for now, I guess. Which books do you recommend? What are your reading projects? Do tell me about them.
Yours truly,
J.
Boris Grigoriev. “Woman Reading”, 1922.
Is it okay if I also post on my blog and tweet about the Sor Juana readalong?( Also, my username is Ms. Arachne, not Mrs.) 🙂
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Of course it’s ok! 🙂 Ah, sorry, I’ll correct my mistake!
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No worries. 🙂 I’ll post something in the next day or two. Do you think we should mention this in the Events thread on the Classics Club blog?
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It’s a good idea to mention it! 🙂
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Wow, lots of serious projects going on! I’m still working my way through Dorothy Richardson’s “Pilgrimage” sequence and trying to find time for some Woolf for Woolfalong. I have shifted some books that have been hanging around on the TBR shelf waiting for me to read the ones before them in series, at least.
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I have my eyes on “Pilgrimage” for a long while now. I’ll be following your project! Thank for dropping by, Liz! 🙂
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