Some Titles In Search of a Post? A Miscellaneous Collection . . .

Have any of you read Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road or seen the movie based on this wonderful 20-year correspondence between a New York writer and the London used-book store whose address gives the book…

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Another Big Autobiographical Novel Series

I’m a bit disheartened at the moment because I cannot, despite having unpacked all the boxes of books (unless he still has some I don’t know about stashed in our storage locker), despite having checked…

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Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal . . . A Fast Runner, a Fast Read. . .

I’ve got to find ways to keep this blog current — it’s a project of my heart, really, yet it generally plays a weak second fiddle to my main blog. Or to reading itself. After…

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Ferrante ReadAlong — Turning Points?

Edited to add: Thanks so much to Lisa for linking to this post and welcome to any visitors from Amid Privilege’s reading post. Although I’ve just written the last post in this Readalong, you’re very…

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My Brilliant Friend, readalong, The Prologue

Welcome to this Read-Along of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend.  Never having attempted to host a read-along here before, I’m not sure how this project might evolve, but I’m sure we’ll figure it out together.…

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