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    Month: December 2017

    To the New Year, untouched and still possible

    Hello, dear readers, It is time to leave this year behind. Let’s look back over the books we’ve read in 2017 and pick our favourites. But first,…… Read more “To the New Year, untouched and still possible”

    30 de December de 201716 de December de 2018 by juliana

    She was still her own indomitable self,

    Dear Willa, A Lost Lady (1923) is a story drenched in melancholy. A short-lived world is coming of age and, caught in its remaking, its inhabitants seem…… Read more “She was still her own indomitable self,”

    16 de December de 2017 by juliana

    Willa Cather

    Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873– April 24, 1947) was an American write. She graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and, in 1896, moved to Pittsburgh to…… Read more “Willa Cather”

    16 de December de 201730 de August de 2018 by juliana

    She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment

    Dear Daphne, In My Cousin Rachel (1951), you build up tension, chapter after chapter, by unravelling the personality of the eponymous character in all its complexity and…… Read more “She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment”

    14 de December de 2017 by juliana

    Strange can be quite normal

    Dear Samanta, Your novel Fever Dream (2017), translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Distanca de Rescate, 2014) takes the form of a conversation between a woman…… Read more “Strange can be quite normal”

    13 de December de 201714 de December de 2017 by juliana

    Samanta Schweblin

    Samanta Schweblin (1978) is an Argentinian writer. She studied Image and Sound at the University of Buenos Aires. Since 2012, Schweblin lives in Berlin. Awards In 2010, she…… Read more “Samanta Schweblin”

    13 de December de 201713 de December de 2017 by juliana

    A year in first lines | 2017

    Hey, you, Yes, you. Do you feel like playing a game? This is an idea that started with The Indextrious Reader, and I first saw it on…… Read more “A year in first lines | 2017”

    9 de December de 201717 de December de 2018 by juliana

    I’ll describe my insanity through a sudden insight

    Dear Christine, Do you know that feeling we have when we know where a book was going, and we know it could have worked – but it…… Read more “I’ll describe my insanity through a sudden insight”

    8 de December de 2017 by juliana

    Christine Angot

    Christine Angot (born 7 February 1959) is a French writer. She was brought up by her single-parent mother. She went to university in Rheims, specialising in English and Law, but…… Read more “Christine Angot”

    8 de December de 201720 de March de 2018 by juliana

    Oh we can afford very well to laugh at their ideas

    Dear Jane, Ok, I confess: I’ve violated your correspondence, and I did it more than once. In my defence, though, I have to say that your letters…… Read more “Oh we can afford very well to laugh at their ideas”

    6 de December de 201720 de March de 2018 by juliana

    Jane Welsh Carlyle

    Jane Welsh Carlyle (née Jane Baillie Welsh, 14 January 1801 – 21 April 1866) was a Scottish writer. As a child, she was given private tuition at home, and later…… Read more “Jane Welsh Carlyle”

    6 de December de 201718 de September de 2020 by juliana

    To show our scorn of pretending life’s a safe business

    Dear Sylvia, Lolly Willowes (1926) is a satirical comedy of manners centred on an unmarried woman who suddenly decides to escape the claustrophobic domestic role her family tries…… Read more “To show our scorn of pretending life’s a safe business”

    5 de December de 20175 de December de 2017 by juliana

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Sylvia Townsend Warner (6 December 1893 – 1 May 1978) was an English writer. She was home-schooled by her father. At the outbreak of World War I, she moved to London and worked…… Read more “Sylvia Townsend Warner”

    5 de December de 201730 de August de 2018 by juliana

    Virtue can sometimes be a little depressing

    Dear Barbara, Excellent Women (1952) is a comedy of manners about a spinster surrounded by people who cannot see why she shouldn’t suffer for being single. She…… Read more “Virtue can sometimes be a little depressing”

    1 de December de 20171 de December de 2017 by juliana

    Barbara Pym

    Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English writer. She studied at Queen’s Park School, in Oswestry, and attended Huyton College, near Liverpool. She…… Read more “Barbara Pym”

    1 de December de 20171 de December de 2017 by juliana

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