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anzlitlovers.com
Novellas in November is a good time to tackle some of the backlog of Aussie titles from the 20th century. The late Helen Hodgman (1945-2022) was a Tasmanian author of six highly regarded novels.Jack and Jill (1978) was her second novel (after Blue Skies, 1976, see my review) and it won the Somerset Maugham Award.... |
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katemacdonald.net
I'm on holiday, typing one-fingered into a smartphone screen, so this review of Anthony Trollope's first Barsetshire novel, The Warden, will be excused for its brevity, I hope. It's attracted some attention on Substack, so some of it might be worth reading. https://substack.com/@katemacdonald/note/c-89981753?r=z79ub |
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readingmattersblog.com
Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... |
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lizzysiddal2.wordpress.com
In reading terms, I'm on track with 11 books read. A bit behind on the reviewing, only 5. So let's balance things up a little with a trio of quick reviews. One word provides the perfect summary of my response to Charlotte Bronte's Villette, and that is .... Hmmmm. A marmite novel if ever there... |
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