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Hi, folks! Thankfully, 2020 has come to an end. So, my loves, let’s look back over the books we’ve read this year and pick our favourites, shall…… Read more “That is solemn we have ended,”
Month: December 2020
The music of life and living
Dear Dorothy, We are forever exiles of our childhoods, but sometimes the smallest details can bring us back to our neverland. It takes one song, a slant…… Read more “The music of life and living”
Dorothy Evelyn Smith
Dorothy Evelyn Smith (née Jones, 1893 – 1969) was an English writer. She attended an art school in 1911, and married three years later, in 1914, to the…… Read more “Dorothy Evelyn Smith”
Such shifting winds in life
Dear Ida, A Change of Time (2019, tr. Martin Aitken. Original: En ny tid, 2015) is the record of a woman’s passage through grief. Told through diary entries…… Read more “Such shifting winds in life”
Ida Jessen
Ida Jessen (25 September 1964) is a Danish writer. Jessen studied literary history and communication studies at Aarhus University. In 1989, she published her first book, the…… Read more “Ida Jessen”
A kind of door in oneself through which it was necessary to pass
Dear Mary, The Friendly Young Ladies (1944. Published in the USA as The Middle Mist, 1945) is at its best when walking the tight rope of double…… Read more “A kind of door in oneself through which it was necessary to pass”
Reading Projects | 2021
Hi, folks! It’s that time of the year again, when we reflect on what has been accomplished in the past months & start to plan ahead. Here…… Read more “Reading Projects | 2021”
Happiness is so elusive it may as well be supernatural
Dear Marie-Helene, Much of the disturbing, off-kilter sense of humour in Parakeet: A Novel (2020) comes from a finely-drawn contrast between the strong sense of reality in…… Read more “Happiness is so elusive it may as well be supernatural”
Marie-Helene Bertino
Marie-Helene Bertino is an American writer. She grew up in Philadelphia and earned an MFA from Brooklyn College. She was an Emerging Writer Fellow at NYC’s Center for Fiction, as well…… Read more “Marie-Helene Bertino”
It was under the sway of that force that I began to feel,
Dear Gabriela, A coming-of-age story, a road novel, a picaresque adventure, a piece of nature and travel writing, an epic, and a reinterpretation of Martín Fierro through a…… Read more “It was under the sway of that force that I began to feel,”
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (November 4, 1968) is an Argentine writer. She studied literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 2006, Cabezón Cámara published the short story…… Read more “Gabriela Cabezón Cámara”
A small jewel that has always been hopelessly flawed
Dear Isobel, Every Eye (1956) is a novella that plays with the ideas of perspective and sight, narrated by a character who is trapped in her blind…… Read more “A small jewel that has always been hopelessly flawed”
Isobel English
Isobel English (pen name of June Guesdon Braybrooke, née June Guesdon Jolliffe. 9 June 1920 – 30 May 1994) was an English author. Born in London to…… Read more “Isobel English”
The truth is a kind of regardless
Dear Ali, Spring (2019) begins with chorus of angry voices, a collage of social media rants and headlines, disrupted in the end by a voice that seems…… Read more “The truth is a kind of regardless”
Books on My Winter 2020-2021 TBR | Top Ten Tuesday
Hi, folks, Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme originally created by The Broke and the Bookish and currently hosted by Jana at That Artsy Girl. This week’s topic is Books On My Winter…… Read more “Books on My Winter 2020-2021 TBR | Top Ten Tuesday”
My life in books | 2020
Hi, folks! I saw this meme at Karen‘s blog today and thought it would be fun to do it. I have done something similar in 2019 and…… Read more “My life in books | 2020”
Fauna smiles upon the love of intertwined women
Dear Renée, For the past couple of days, I’ve been trapped inside a stuffy Victorian room heavily decorated with rich furnishings, intricate pieces of furniture, some middle…… Read more “Fauna smiles upon the love of intertwined women”
Renée Vivien
Renée Vivien (née Pauline Mary Tarn; 11 June 1877 – 18 November 1909) was a British French-speaking writer. Born in London to a wealthy British father and…… Read more “Renée Vivien”
