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I have had this book on my TBR for over a decade, and I’ve had it in my pile of books to read for #NovNov, so why the delay? Well, it’s not a book for bedtime reading. It’s a challenging work of experimental fiction that demands a reader’s fully engaged attention. Today’s the day! This […]
I am so curious about how Barbara Hanrahan came to write this book! As far as I can tell she never visited China or Hong Kong. What sparked her interest, and who were her sources? This is the book description: Wing-yee is an ordinary Chinese girl living through extraordinary times. Born during the war with […]
Following on from my notes from Mark Musa’s Introduction to the Purgatorio… we begin in the second realm, Purgatory. Canto I After all the noise and cacophony of the Inferno, this is a quieter, more optimistic place. Dante feels the poetic impulse stirring: For better waters, now, the little bark of my poetic powers hoists […]
First published in 1980, A House with Verandahs was Nene Gare’s third novel. As you can see from her page at Wikipedia, she was a prolific author, with multiple works published in the press but her first novel was The Fringe Dwellers (1961, see my review), followed by Green Gold (1963) and a collection of […]
Here we are in the Purgatorio! This the book description for Volume 2 of Mark Musa’s translation: In the second volume of his definitive translation of The Divine Comedy, Mark Musa again brings his poetic sensitivity and skill as a translator and annotator to the difficult task of making Dante’s masterpiece vital for English-speaking readers. In Purgatory, […]
