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Review: In a Summer Season, by Elizabeth Taylor
Month: September 2017
In the mood for some Victober
Hello, lovely readers, Victober is a challenge hosted by Kate Howe, Katie from Books and Things, Ange from Beyond the Pages, and Lucy the Reader. Their goal is to read as…… Read more “In the mood for some Victober”
We don’t have the more refined illnesses here
Dear Sofia, Reading your novel City Folk and Country Folk, translated by Nora Seligman Favorov (Городские и деревенские, 1863), feels like following a deceptively simple pattern with…… Read more “We don’t have the more refined illnesses here”
Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (Софья Дмитриевна Хвощинская, 1824–1865) was a Russian writer, translator and painter. She studied at St. Catherine Moscow Institute. Sofia published fiction and social commentary, and wrote under…… Read more “Sofia Khvoshchinskaya”
We are more porous than we know
Dear Emily, Although centred around a murder, your debut novel Idaho (2017) does not revolve around the questions of who might have done it or why; yours…… Read more “We are more porous than we know”
Emily Ruskovich
Emily Ruskovich is an American writer. She graduated from the University of Montana and received an MA in English from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and…… Read more “Emily Ruskovich”
Trespassing on one’s own ground
Dear Monica, The atmosphere in your novel Mariana (1940) feels like a bright surface tinted by an added layer of nostalgia, and a pervading sense of loss.…… Read more “Trespassing on one’s own ground”
Monica Dickens
Monica Enid Dickens (10 May 1915 – 25 December 1992) was an English writer. After being expelled from St Paul’s Girls’ School, in London, she went into domestic service, and…… Read more “Monica Dickens”
The girl is a peasant warrior
Dear Xiaolu, Your book Nine Continents (2017, also published in the UK with the title Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up) is…… Read more “The girl is a peasant warrior”
Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo (simplified Chinese: 郭小橹; traditional Chinese: 郭小櫓; pinyin: Guō Xiǎolǔ, 1973) is a British-Chinese novelist and film-maker. She studied at the Beijing Film Academy, and moved to London in 2002. Books Once Upon A Time in the East:…… Read more “Xiaolu Guo”
A product of the interplay of traveled hearts
The Heart of a Woman The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on, Afar o’er life’s…… Read more “A product of the interplay of traveled hearts”
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson (Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson, September 10, 1880 – May 14, 1966) was an African-American poet and playwright. She graduated from Atlanta University’s Normal School, and attended the Oberlin Conservatory…… Read more “Georgia Douglas Johnson”
20 Books of Summer Wrap-Up & R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril XII
Hello, lovely readers, I am back from a three-week trip to Portugal and Brazil, and I can safely report that Summer has swiftly gone away here in…… Read more “20 Books of Summer Wrap-Up & R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril XII”
