The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Still easily one of the most brilliant novels I've ever read, now twice. I am often on the lookout not only for good novel, which I like of course, but perfect novels. This is a perfect novel. If you've never read it, Stevens is a butler from a fine old English estate. It's after the war now … [Read more]
Whatever happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins
I have read and reviewed this book before, but I reread it by listening to the audiobook, so I was thinking about it some more. This is a kind of collection that comes out from time to time, where the children or other literary executors from an artist work to get the writer's work published … [Read more]
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
I love reading Austen and the Brontë sisters. Jane Eyre is a favorite, even if Mr. Rochester is the worst and definitely killed his wife. But reading period romances used to remind me, in the back of my mind, that those stories weren't written for people like me. It wouldn't have been historically … [Read more]
Welcome to the Week 6 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Virgo Season has arrived! I am either a good Virgo or a bad Virgo because I don’t know what Virgo Season means (I have been assured it’s not a form of hunting season), but I … [Read more]
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
We won't be able to go to the lighthouse tomorrow it seems. In this novel, we find ourselves in the Hebrides as a group of people are more or less on vacation. As with many Virginia Woolf novels, our narrative perspective flits around from person to person in a close, omniscient third person as … [Read more]
Toward the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
This is one of those British novels from the 1960s that is trying to capture the changing tone and impulses in the country stemming from the end of the war and the institution of the welfare state, and of course, the end of Empire. The novel takes places in a dying, middling paper on Fleet Street, … [Read more]
