Browsing the archives for the persephone tag
Browsing the archives for the persephone tag
The post-WWII period is not a period of literature with which I am terribly familiar. My general interest lies between about 1860-1920, then jumps forward into the 1970s and onwards from there. That leaves 50 years where I have scratched the surface thanks to the odd book and my undergraduate 20thC course, but no more [...]
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 [...]