Catching up again: The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark: Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is one of my favorite books ever. So I was really looking forward to this book. Ms. Spark has a very understated… Read more ›
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was delivered to my home last evening, and I finished it about 2 hours ago. I did not read throughout the night, and I didn’t even start reading first thing out of bed.… Read more ›
Playing catch up, playing catch up. Retreat from Love by Nancy Mitford: Nancy Mitford is one of my idols. This novel is hilarious, much in the same way that Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh is. The characters are just a… Read more ›
The last two books I read created an interesting synergy. As I posted earlier, I got an advance copy of The Zahir by Paulo Coelho from Harper Collins. Contrary to some other people, I like his writing, and his fable-istic… Read more ›
Every couple of weeks, my sister brings her kids over to my house and one of the possible treats of going to “auntie’s house” is going to the library. My nephews are 2 and a bit, and for them the… Read more ›
Flannery O’Connor hurts my brain. In a good way, but hurts nonetheless. I just finished Wise Blood, and my thoughts are struggling to connect themselves. There’s so many threads of yearning, struggling for redemption, for identity; trying to free yourself… Read more ›
I just finished Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope All Story collection, a smorgasborg of stories from the Zoetrope All Story journal, never before printed fiction, and original essays on film. From the introduction (and not because I have an encyclopedic knowledge… Read more ›
I finished The Vagabond by Colette days ago and have moved on to Zoetrope All Story, a collection of short stories that appeared in Francis Ford Copalla’s magazine of the same name. I’m enjoying it muchly and will write about… Read more ›
Distraction has struck again. Well, not completely. I’m in the middle of reading The Vagabond, which I fully intend to finish, I just got an unexpected Amazon shipment containing Ruddy Gore, the most recently reprinted Phryne Fisher mystery by Kerry… Read more ›
I just finished Creating Colette Vol. 1 by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier, the first in a two volume biography of the French writer Colette. Colette is one of my favorite writers, her short stories are targeted and precise, and… Read more ›
