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Hi, folks! As it turns out, March will be all about Ireland and Wales for me. Along with Cathy’s Reading Ireland Month, I’ll be taking part in…… Read more “Wales Readathon | 2019”
Month: February 2019
Things that make one’s heart beat faster
Shōnagon-san, Lists, anecdotes, poetry, and small essays surrounding fleeting moments: reading The Pillow Book (枕草子 – Makura no sōshi, c.1002) is an experiment on estrangement – like…… Read more “Things that make one’s heart beat faster”
Sei Shōnagon (清少納言)
Sei Shōnagon (清少納言, c. 966–1017/1025) was a Japanese author and a court lady during the middle Heian period. She was born in a family of middle-ranking courtiers,…… Read more “Sei Shōnagon (清少納言)”
Know Thy Shelf | 01
Hi, folks! This is the first of a series of posts documenting my bookshelves. I thought it would be interesting to create a meme/tag for it, so…… Read more “Know Thy Shelf | 01”
Otherwise let this mad world crush us now
Dear Elizabeth, The Morgesons (1862) is that rare thing: a 19th-century novel with a sceptical, areligious, and probably amoral heroine. It reads like a modernist fiction avant…… Read more “Otherwise let this mad world crush us now”
Eve actually ate an apple
“It is best for us to continue in the belief that Eve actually ate an apple, and immediately ruined Adam in consequence! I like this belief, too,…… Read more “Eve actually ate an apple”
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (née Barstow, May 6, 1823 – August 1, 1902) was an American writer. She studied at Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Massachusetts. In 1852, she got married to the critic…… Read more “Elizabeth Drew Stoddard”
Reading Ireland Month | 2019
Hello, lovely readers, As in the previous years, for our delight, Cathy and Niall are hosting Reading Ireland Month, in March, to celebrate all things Irish! Here are some of my possible…… Read more “Reading Ireland Month | 2019”
Sucked into the soft, light-filled sky
Tsushima-san, In Territory of Light, tr. Geraldine Harcourt (2018. Original: 光の領分, Hikari no ryōbun, 1979), you throw your protagonist in a room flooded from all corners with a harsh, shifting…… Read more “Sucked into the soft, light-filled sky”
Yūko Tsushima
Yūko Tsushima (pen name of Satoko Tsushima, 30 March 1947 – 18 February 2016) was a Japanese writer. Her father, the writer Osamu Dazai, committed suicide together with his lover,…… Read more “Yūko Tsushima”
This lonely spot was not without its pilgrims
Dear Sarah, Much like its characters, who seem to inhabit the limbo between past and present, life and death, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) lies…… Read more “This lonely spot was not without its pilgrims”
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett (born Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett, September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American writer. She studied at Berwick Academy, Maine, and started her writing…… Read more “Sarah Orne Jewett”
Take her away and I’m half of whatever we are
Dear Dorothy, Cassandra at the Wedding (1962) is a nuanced, finely observed character study and comedy of manners, full of a dark, twisted sense of humour, which can…… Read more “Take her away and I’m half of whatever we are”
Dorothy Baker
Dorothy Baker (born Dorothy Alice Dodds; April 21, 1907– June 17, 1968) was an American writer. Baker attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduation in 1929,…… Read more “Dorothy Baker “
Library Loot: January 30 to February 5
Hi, folks! Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading, encouraging bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the…… Read more “Library Loot: January 30 to February 5”
