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Reclaiming my Reading Mojo

Phew! Am I glad that’s over! By which, of course, I refer to my two-week reading (and therefore blogging) paralysis. It was torture. Wandering around my house, looking at all my bookshelves, it was like being in a cake shop but having absolutely no appetite. I kept picking books up, tasting a morsel, but found [...]

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November 16, 2009 in fiction, personal
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Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914 – ed. Angelique Richardson (2005)

Vanora herself was simply radiant… In figure she was robust, erect, pliant, firmly knit. Though her movements were so swift, there was nothing restless about her. A ground-tone of repose sounded up through the surface scintillations. She was vital, not galvanic. That was the revealing word: vital. In the human colour-spectrum, she took the place [...]

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May 7, 2009 in feminism, fiction, review, short stories, victorian literature
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