Persephone Reading Week, In Wartime (2)

2014-03-09T13:59:14-04:00

Now if I had read Vere Hodgson's diaries when they first arrived, I would have realized sooner that my edition of Few Eggs and No Oranges was incomplete. I'm missing quite a selection of pages (564-5, 568-9, 572-3, 576-7, 580-1, 584-5, 588-9) which is doubly disappointing because it's from the

Persephone Reading Week, In Wartime (2)2014-03-09T13:59:14-04:00

Persephone Reading Week, In Wartime (1)

2014-03-09T13:59:03-04:00

Vere Hodgson's Few Eggs and No Oranges: 1940-45 Persephone No. 9 (1999) Ironically, it was not a book -- Persephone or otherwise -- that settled my debate about which Persephones to read for Persephone week. It was the combination of my having responded so strongly to Pat Barker's Regeneration series

Persephone Reading Week, In Wartime (1)2014-03-09T13:59:03-04:00

The Iliad all over again?

2014-03-09T13:51:31-04:00

Nadifa Mohamed's Black Mamba Boy Harper Collins, 2009 "...and it's a story that I think hasn't been told before..." That's how Nadifa Mohamed describes her first novel, Black Mamba Boy in this video. Maybe that's a tall order for a novel in 2010. And, then again, maybe not. Consider this.

The Iliad all over again?2014-03-09T13:51:31-04:00

Persephone Reading Plans

2014-03-09T11:45:47-04:00

I'm so incredibly excited about Persephone Reading Week that I think I'll need to take the week off work to celebrate it properly. That was a temptation when I first heard about the event, and I started thinking "themes" and then spotted a collection of films about wartime England at

Persephone Reading Plans2014-03-09T11:45:47-04:00

Hooked on Pat Barker

2014-02-27T19:10:59-05:00

Arguably the best novel of the trilogy, for having been nominated for Orange Prize in 1996 and having won the Booker that year, there was no question in my mind as to whether I would read on following Regeneration and The Eye in the Door.  Despite my habit of resisting war

Hooked on Pat Barker2014-02-27T19:10:59-05:00
Go to Top