Persephone Reading Week, In Wartime (4)

2014-03-09T14:00:33-04:00

Mollie Panter-Downes' Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories Persephone No. 8 (1999) So you can choose to follow along with my bookish digression, or, you can do a quick online search on this collection and find many thorough reviews of and responses to it because -- both in and

Persephone Reading Week, In Wartime (4)2014-03-09T14:00:33-04:00

Persephone Reading Week, In Wartime (3)

2014-03-09T13:59:43-04:00

Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg's On the Other Side: Letters to My Children: From Germany 1940-1946 Persephone No. 75 (2007) Trans. from the German and Edited by Ruth Evans Peter Owen, 1979 I added this one to my reading list for the same reason that Persephone added it to its publication list: to

Persephone Reading Week, In Wartime (3)2014-03-09T13:59:43-04:00

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

To Bed with Grand Music, Persephone #86 (1946)

2014-02-27T19:38:19-05:00

1946; Persephone Books, 2009 The novel opens with Mrs. Deborah Robertson in bed with her husband; they are saying goodbye to one another before Graham goes overseas. War work: it's not the worst option, as Graham reminds Deborah; he will be relatively safe, as will she, living at

To Bed with Grand Music, Persephone #86 (1946)2014-02-27T19:38:19-05:00
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