Reading Projects

Announced, The 2010 Orange Prize

Buried In Print2014-02-27T17:40:25-05:00

Here is what I like about this year's Orange Prize list. Although I really don't need much convincing on this one: reading the OP backlist is an ongoing pet project of mine. First: Rebecca Gowers' The Twisted Heart Lorrie Moore's A Gate at the Stairs (Because I've already read them

Announced, The 2010 Orange PrizeBuried In Print2014-02-27T17:40:25-05:00

Virago Holtby’s Poor Caroline VMC No. 192 (1931)

Buried In Print2014-02-27T15:29:04-05:00

Even though it was described as "easily the wittiest novel of the season" when it was published in 1931, I wasn't expecting to find Poor Caroline so amusing. Not laugh-out-loud hilarity, no, but many quiet chuckles, gentle hrumphs, and the occasional indignant snort at Mr. Johnson's impressions of women, which

Virago Holtby’s Poor Caroline VMC No. 192 (1931)Buried In Print2014-02-27T15:29:04-05:00

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