At the time the pigeon affair overtook him, unhinging his life from one day to the next, Jonathan Noel, already past fifty, could look back over a good twenty-year period of total uneventfulness and would never have expected anything of importance could ever overtake him again- other than death some day. What on earth do … Continue reading The Pigeon | Patrick Süskind #DEUnovella
Regular followers of my blog will already know how much I love The Ladies of Missalonghi. It's not only a deliciously light, confectionery offering of a book, it's also a murky story mired down in a controversy involving plagiarism and L. M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle. A recent readalong for The Blue Castle was all the convincing I … Continue reading The Ladies of Missalonghi | Colleen McCullough #AWWfiction
Before I start telling you how and why I loved Crossing To Safety can I throw two words in your direction - 'introduction' and 'afterword'. Classics, in particular, seem to abound in these two phenomena. Do you read them before or after you've read the main text? Do you read them at all? Do they … Continue reading Crossing to Safety | Wallace Stegner
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