Monthly Archives: May, 2012

Nazis, Adultery, Curries, Curates, and Regency

♦ May 26, 2012 ♦ 4 Comments

Dear Reader: A couple mysteries, two biographies, and a novel. 127) Until thy Wrath is Past by Asa Larsson (kindle) #15 Bettan and Simon are young people in love with adventure and each other.  And then they mysteriously die on a dive to see a crashed airplane in a remote lake.  We are led through …

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Madness, Death, and Poetry: Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Hennezel’s The Art of Growing Old, Kumin’s Always Beginning

♦ May 25, 2012 ♦ 7 Comments

Dear Reader: Back after a break to wrap up an enormous project (done! yes!) and go camping for awhile. So, here’s what I’ve been up to in the meanwhile. 169) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (hard copy) I read this for the Feminist Classics Challenge (it is coupled with Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea this …

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Gold and Judgement: John Ruskin’s King of Golden River and Julia Serano’s Whipping Girl

♦ May 3, 2012 ♦ 2 Comments

Dear Reader: Some of you may have noticed that I trumpeted reading “one book a month” in April in my last post. I could fix my error on my website, but not on your emailed posts… Argh. Probably everyone figured out I mean “one book a day” in April. 503) King of Golden River by …

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Bees, Seasons, Lanyards, Ruby Bridges, and Tubs of Acquiescence: Plath, Blochs, Collins, Sarton, and Pinsky

♦ May 1, 2012 ♦ 4 Comments

Dear Reader: As April comes to a close, I’ll let you in on a secret.  I set out to read a book a day in April and succeeded.  Granted, I made a pile of slim volumes and mostly read those – it helped that in the United States it has been National Poetry Month.  But, …

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