Happy Birthday to me (and Persephone Books)!
The wonderful Persephone Books celebrated their tenth birthday during my birthday month, March, and I thought it would be apt to pay them birthday wishes upon my own birthday.It is rather apt to celebrate it today as sitting beside me is a copy of one of the Persephone published texts, The Making of a Marchioness [...]
They Were Sisters
It is easy to determine why Dorothy Whipple is Persephone Books’ most popular author: she is comfortably readable and engaging. Described by J.B. Priestley as the “Jane Austen of the 20th Century”, Whipple is like a cup of tea on a cold and wet Spring day: comforting, soothing yet restorative. Also deemed as [...]
"A Study in Emerald"
The novels and children’s fiction of Neil Gaiman I have read and would re-read and re-read again in an instant; his short stories, however, I have dipped into and back out again at random. Fragile Things has sat, a beautiful hardback that Gareth gave me for Christmas in 2006, (oh why oh why did [...]
Once Upon a Time…
… there was a girl who read books, blogged about them and completed challenges. With one thing and another (ahem, moving flat unexpectedly) I wasn’t able to uphold my end of the R.I.P, challenge last year, despite fulfilling the reading part, so I am excited to approach Carl’s Once Upon a Time (III) challenge [...]
Thankful for mercies
I am glad to see Toni Morrison’s A Mercy on The Orange Prize for Fiction’s longlist; although there are an abundance of female American authors on the list this year I am thankful that more readers will be introduced to Toni Morrison. I could be wrong but I think that unless you have come [...]
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