Recent Acquisitions
Strictly speaking this installment of Recent Acquisitions are not that recent but from early last month. I forgot to post them whilst I was away (despite adding one of them to my summer reading pile) but wanted to share them with you before the latest -and Booker longlist heavy- acquisitions.
Kirsty of Oxford University Press generously [...]
A Russian Affair
One of my very first reviews on Paperback Reader was of First Love by Ivan Turgenev and soon after I was gifted the complete Penguin Great Loves boxset. When the Classics Circuit announced a tour of Imperial Russian literature, I was given the opportunity to read further about Russian love from the collection by opting [...]
The Flea Palace
Since starting to blog I have begun to pay closer attention to translation; not simply reading more books in translation (although that too) but the quality of the translation and its bearing on my enjoyment of the book. Pre-blogging, the translation itself was not something I considered and, until now, it remained on the periphery [...]
Recent Acquisitions
I promised that I would share my birthday loot and here it is. First of all, a big thank you to Verity and Simon T who both sent me lovely birthday surprises in the mail; from Verity there was a copy of Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh, a children’s novel about the eponymous Royal cat (when [...]
The Girls of Slender Means
I am still reeling from reading Memento Mori by Muriel Spark last month and I went into The Girls of Slender Means hoping for a similar experience; it is not nearly as vindictive or as sinister as its predecessor but it is as mordantly witty. The ironic title (ironic in its double-play on the word [...]
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