Carter Collation Post IV

Posted on | April 24, 2010 | 3 Comments

Another round-up post to keep you abreast of other bloggers’ participation in Angela Carter month.

Kim of Reading Matters went off-the-beaten-track a little with the delightful The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault for her first Carter experience; she is now re-assessing those seemingly innocent fairy tales she read as a child. Kim also enjoyed Carter’s rather wicked feminist eye, which is as observant as it is mocking.

Jackie of Farm Lane Books took her first foray in Angela Carter’s universe by reading Nights at the Circus; she found Fevvers to be “one of the most vivid characters” she had ever read and loved her extraordinariness but was not a fan of Carter’s heavy use of magical realism. Jackie also didn’t think she shared Carter’s sense of humour, which I have to say is quite twisted and dark (just the way I like it).

Vivienne of Serendipity hasn’t read any of Angela Carter’s work for years and re-embraced her by reading The Passion of New Eve. Vivienne has written an admirably balanced and fair review of a novel that she is still speechless about and yet has been able to fully articulate her ambivalence towards it. This paragraph from the review had me chuckling:

Whilst reading it, I kept holding my breath as the situation changed and went from one extreme to another. The story is full of twists and turns which at times lost me and had me scanning back through the pages to find the clues I had missed. This story has to be the most bizarre book I have ever read. The changes that occur to Evelyn are quite mind boggling and rather sadistic. I am surprised that Evelyn did not top himself by the end of the book, because I do believe any sane person would have reached for poison long before the end of the book.

This week I also drew the winner of the Black Venus draw and congratulations goes to Sakura! Please contact me to arrange delivery of your prize.

Please join me next week for the last posts for what has been an exciting and inspiring Angela Carter month.

Category: Angela Carter Month, Challenges
Tags: Angela Carter

Comments

3 Responses to “Carter Collation Post IV”

Jackie (Farm Lane Books)
April 24th, 2010 @ 9:29 am

It is interesting to see how Carter is dividing opinion – I’m sure that will make other people more curious about her now. Hopefully a few more people will squeeze a Carter into the last week of your wonderful month.
Sakura
April 24th, 2010 @ 6:11 pm

Brilliant! Reading all the posts on Angel Carter has certainly whetted my appetite. I can’t wait to read it.
tea lady (the glittering burn)
April 28th, 2010 @ 1:47 pm

Have just finished reading and reviewing Nights At The Circus.

Thank you for inspiring me to try Carter. She is an author who never appealed before but whom I am glad to have been introduced to. This is surely what blogging is all about!