Claire’s Corner

If you’re in London then you may have noticed some elephants around. Between May and July there are 250 baby elephant sculptures dotted around Central London, each with a unique design by an artist; the Elephant Parade is a “conservation campaign that shines a multi-coloured spotlight on the urgent crisis faced by the endangered Asian [...]

Claire’s Corner

Have you seen Nymeth’s 1930s Mini-Challenge? I require no additional encouragement to read from the time period (I love inter-war literature) so I shall definitely be participating, especially when all that is required is to read one book during a three month period (beginning this week), which helpfully overlaps with Persephone Reading Week. Excluding those [...]

Claire’s Corner

Reading this post by my lovely co-host of Persephone Reading Week, I began to consider which books I would read during the upcoming 2010 event. I’ve been conflicted between those Persephones that I have been wanting to read for some time and deciding on a whim during the week (much as I did last year, [...]

Claire’s Corner

I’d like to use this week’s Claire’s Corner as a formal announcement of this year’s Persephone Reading Week, which will take place in just over three weeks time during the first week in May (from Monday 3rd to Sunday 9th). If you have been reading my or Verity’s blogs then you will know that this [...]

Claire’s Corner

Today is my birthday (I am one year off being thirty – eek!) so I am scheduling this post and may be eating a celebratory cupcake as you are reading this. I also hope to be sharing a respectable pile of birthday books with you on a date to be confirmed. Another year older but [...]

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