Index

• Long-term Projects
• Current schedule
• 2017  |  2016 

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Long-term Projects

• The Classics Club
  • Books read so far: 35/156
• Virago Modern Classics
  • Books reviewed
  • Complete list
• Persephone Books
  • Books reviewed
  • Complete list
• NYRB Classics
  • Books reviewed
  • List
• Dorothy Project
  • Books reviewed
  • List
• The Middlebrow Syllabus
• Award-winning women writers
• 500 Great Books by Women
• Speak its name

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Current Schedule

• October:
  • Jane Carlyle: newly selected letters, org. Kenneth J. Fielding
  • The yellow wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman (reread)
  • Sleepwalking Land, by Mia Couto (booksclub)
  • My Absolute Darling, by Gabriel Tallent (RIP)
  • The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, by Ronald Hutton (RIP)
  • The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, by Imogen Hermes Gowar
  • Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
  • Pointed Roofs & Backwater, by Dorothy Richardson (Year of Pilgrimage)
  • The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer (The Mad Woman’s Book Club)
  • Poems of the Great War (Literature and War Readalong)

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2017 Projects

• Japanese Literature Challenge 11 (from June, 1th, 2017 to January, 31th, 2018) ✓
  • Masks, by Fumiko Enchi, tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter (Onna Men, 1958)
  • The Sarashina diary: a woman’s life in eleventh-century Japan, by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, tr. Sonja Arntzen & Itō Moriyuki
  • As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan, by Lady Sarashina (1975, tr. Ivan Morris)
• Margery Sharp Day (25th January 2017) ✓
  • Cluny Brown (1938)
• The Year of the Star (from February 6, 2017 to December 24, 2017)
  • The Triumph & Obsession
• #ReadSoulLit (February) ✓
  • The Street, by Ann Petry (1946)
• Reading Ireland Month (March) ✓
  • The Visitor, by Maeve Brennan (2000, originally written in the 1940’s)
  • Miss Emily, by Nuala O’Connor (Nuala Ní Chonchúir, 2015)
  • Living on paper: letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995, edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe (2015)
  • The Lesser Bohemians, by Eimear McBride (2016)
  • Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker, by Angela Bourke (2004)
• Elizabeth Goudge Day (24th April)  ✓
  • The Rosemary Tree (1951)
• The Classics Spin #15 ✓
  • Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym (May, 1st)
• My Year of Pilgrimage
  • March: Pointed Roofs (174 p.)
  • April: Backwater (160 p.)
  • May: Honeycomb (143 p.)
  • June: The Tunnel (280 p.)
  • July: Interim (163 p.)
  • August: Deadlock (222 p.)
  • September: Revolving lights (166 p.)
  • October: The Trap (112 p.) & Oberland (120 p.)
  • November: Dawn’s Left Hand (140 p.)
  • December: Clear Horizon (132 p.)
  • January/2018: Dimple Hill (152 p.)
  • February/2018: March Moonlight (105 p.)
  • March/2018: Catching-up read
• Literature and War Readalong (from January 1st, 2017 to December 31th, 2017) ✓
  • February, Tuesday 28: Magnus by Sylvie Germain, 190 pages, France 2005 ✓
  • April, Friday 28: La douleur – The War by Marguerite Duras, 217 pages, France 1985 ✓
  • May, Wednesday 31: Poems of the Great War ✓
  • October, Tuesday 31: Suite Française by Irène Nemirovsky, 432 pages, France 1942
  • November, Wednesday 29: The Oppermanns – Die Geschwister Oppermann by Lion Feuchtwanger, 416 pages, Germany 1934
• 1951 Club (April, 10th to 16th) ✓
  • A Game of Hide and Seek, by Elizabeth Taylor (1951)
• Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon (April, 29th)  ✓
  • The Enchanted April, by Eizabeth von Arnim
  • First Love, by Gwendoline Riley
• The Virago Modern Classics Book Club ✓
  • January: Good Behaviour, by Molly Keane (1981) ✓
  • February: Deep Water, by Patricia Highsmith (1957) ✓
  • March: The Women’s Room, by Marilyn French (1977)
  • April: The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim  ✓
  • May: My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne DuMaurier ✓
  • June: The Charioteer, by Mary Renault ✓
  • July: Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery ✓
  • August: In a Summer Season, by Elizabeth Taylor ✓
  • September: The Vet’s Daughter, by Barbara Comyns ✓
• Virago Author of the Month (LibraryThing  Group) ✓
  • January: Vita Sackville-West ✓
    • The Edwardians
    • No Signposts in the Sea

    • Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West, by Matthew Dennison (2014)

  • February: Rebecca West ✓
    • The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West: A Biography, by Lorna Gibb
    • The Fountain Overflows
  • March:  Edith Wharton ✓
    • The Age of Innocence
    • No gifts from chance: a biography of Edith Wharton, by Shari Benstock (1994)
  • April: Elizabeth von Arnim ✓
    • The Enchanted April
  • May: Willa Cather ✓
    • A Lost Lady, bv Willa Cather
    • Willa Cather, a critical biography, by E. K. Brown (1953)
  • June: Margaret Laurence ✓
    • The Fire-Dwellers 
  • July: Rumer Godden ✓
    • Black Narcissus
  • August: Christina Stead
    • Letty Fox: Her Luck
  • September: Nina Bawden
  • October:  Margaret Kennedy
  • November: Margaret Atwood
  • December: Sylvia Townsend-Warner
• 20 Books of Summer (from June, 1st to September, 3rd) ✓
  1. Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy ✓
  2. The Gambler, by Dostoyevsky ✓
  3. Mariana, by Monica Dickens ✓
  4. The Snake Pit, by Mary Jane Ward ✓
  5. Hetty Dorval, by Ethel Wilson ✓
  6. Fever Dream, by Samanta Schweblin ✓
  7. Ladivine, by Marie NDiaye ✖
  8. Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor ✖
  9. The Fire-Dwellers, by Margaret Laurence ✓
  10. The Constant Nymph, by Margaret Kennedy ✓
  11. After Henry, by Joan Didion ✖
  12. See What I Have Done, by Sarah Schmidt ✓
  13. Nine Continents, by Xiaolu Guo (finished later) ✖
  14. The Beautiful Bureaucrat, by Helen Phillips (finished later) ✖
  15. Idaho, by Emily Ruskovich ✓
  16. The Doll’s Alphabet, by Camilla Grudova ✖
  17. The Virago Modern Classics Book Club choice for June (UPDATE 29/06: The Charioteer, by Mary Renault) ✓
  18. The Virago Modern Classics Book Club choice for July (UPDATE 03/07: Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery) ✓
  19. The Virago Modern Classics Book Club choice for August (UPDATE 02/08: In a Summer Season, by Elizabeth Taylor) ✓
  20. Free choice!
• Margaret Kennedy Day (June, 20th) ✓
  • The Constant Nymph (1924)
• Women in Translation Month 2017 ✓
  • The Sarashina diary: a woman’s life in eleventh-century Japan, by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, tr. Sonja Arntzen & Itō Moriyuki
  • As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan, by Lady Sarashina (1975, tr. Ivan Morris)
•  R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril  XII ✓
  • The Vet’s Daughter, by Barbara Comyns
  • The Beautiful Bureaucrat, by Helen Phillips (2015)
  • The Blood of the Vampire, by Florence Marryat (1897)
• Victober ✓
  • The Blood of the Vampire, by Florence Marryat (1897)
  • Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë (1847)
• Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon (October, 21st)
• German Literature Month VII
• The 1968 Club (30 October – 5 November)
• Iris Murdoch Readalong (November 2017 – December 2019)
• Nonfiction November
• Instagram Polls
  • January, 1st: The Past, by Tessa Hadley (2015)
  • September, 6th: Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Mad Woman’s Book Club ✓
  • January: Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame
  • February: The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller
  • April: The yellow wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
  • May: The center cannot hold by Elyn Saks
  • June: The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward ✓
  • July: The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
  • September: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
  • November:This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin
  • December: Heroides by Ovid
• Kirsty & Katie’s Book Club
  • January – Gilgi by Irmgard Keun ✓
  • February – The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
  • March – The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
  • April – Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
  • May – No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
  • June – The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson ✓
  • July – The Blue Hour by Lillian Pizzichini
  • August – The Birth House by Ami McKay
  • September – Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson
  • October – The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
  • November – How the Blessed Live by Susannah Smith
  • December – The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
• Lendo Susan Sontag / ‘Reading Susan Sontag’ (from January 1st, 2017 to December 31th, 2017)
• Book Club
  • Books read: 10/12
    • The Assistant, by Bernard Malamud ✓
    • A Room With a View, by E. M. Forster✓
    • The Brooklyn Follies, by Paul Auster
    • The Vegetarian, by Han Kang ✓
    • A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh ✓
    • The Door, by Magda Szabo ✓
    • The Gambler, by Dostoyevsky ✓
    • We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson ✓
    • The Meursault Investigation, by Kamel Daoud ✓
    • Sleepwalking Land, by Mia Couto
    • Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys ✓
    • The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink ✓