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#NYRBWomen25 We start Natalia Ginzburg tomorrow!! Here’s the page guide. My schedule has been a bit topsy-turvy these days, but I’m sitting down now to finish the last 2 sections of L&S & the epilogue. And then I need to catch up on everyone’s posts!

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Lonely women in literature, new on my blog today. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/l...

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If you like authors whose names begin with the letter “L” (mostly), have I got a post for you! Thanks to Dorian for enabling me to write about my quixotic project for 6 years now.

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Lonely women in literature, new on my blog today. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/l...

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Today on my blog, a new post on lonely women in literature highlighting thirteen favourite books. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/l...

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Stuck for an indefinite time with a bleak future and nothing but four walls and the thoughts bouncing off your skull. In Solitary Confinement, coming March 31 in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social, Christopher Burney tells how he survived and gained from this experience.

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"Painting is different from writing. A notebook is a compact space for creativity. To paint you need paraphernalia: canvases, easel, and a room to yourself where it’s possible to be uninhibited. Painting is an acquired language that you need to practice every day: if you don’t, you lose your gift."

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I loved LETTERS TO GWEN JOHN by Celia Paul - an exquisitely written book that’s a combination of memoir, biography and an imagined conversation between two artists. One of my favourite books in 2022. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2022/07/05/l...

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My latest review for #ReadIndies is Vigdis Hjorth's If Only, translated by Charlotte Barslund and published by @versobooks.bsky.social 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/i...

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"Sometimes, I was a mask for their deceptions; at others, I was a handheld fan behind which they whispered their secrets; often I was their doll, their plaything. You were all of this, Elisa! If you hadn’t been there, what other audience would they have had for their mad performances?" #NYRBWomen25

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Want!

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Looking forward to this too! I loved A SEPARATION.

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Thank you New Directions for putting my name on the cover! Such a beautiful cover too 😍

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Started reading this, and it's great so far. Set in Sussex and Sicily and filled with disturbed dreams, and mysterious, menacing vibes.

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Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 winners. Ten translators and one editor are awarded prizes for translating from eight languages, and along with the runners-up, share a prize fund of £30,000. See the full list of winners here: authr.uk/TPWinners24 #TranslationPrizes

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Phyllis Paul's last published novel, AN INVISIBLE DARKNESS (1967) is available for free on Internet Archive. I would have loved a physical copy, but given how her books are so rare to find, this will do. archive.org/details/bwb_...

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A new review for #ReadIndies, The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez from @charcopress.com 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/t...

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"Their speech was deceitful, and so was their silence. Their discipline was a lie, their code of laws a lie, their sense of justice & their faith were lies. Their nationalism, their socialism were lies, and so was their love. Everything was a lie, only one thing about them was genuine: their hate!"

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Helen Weinzweig's strange and hallucinatory BASIC BLACK WITH PEARLS is one of my favourite novels ever, but sadly she only published two novels and a short collection. From my blog archives: readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2018/07/14/b...

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Weekend reading, both very good so far.

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#NYRBWomen25 Anna Becomes Electra A not-yet fully formed thread of disjointed ideas from a rabbit hole inspired by @pear-jelly.bsky.social The intersection of Freud/Jung, mythology, and Simone Weil in Lies and Sorcery. 1.

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Saturday night out.

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This week's #bookmail.

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The Virago Classics edition of Caroline Blackwood's deliciously sharp and blistering novella, THE STEPDAUGHTER, is out in June. Strong recommend.

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What I read in January. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/a...

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1/28 Feb is #ReadIndies month & each day I’ll feature a book from an indie publisher. The Employees by Olga Ravn (trns Martin Aitkin) is strange & beautiful. Told as a series of witness statements from a space crew it explores what means to be human. www.lollieditions.com/books/the-em...

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"Work, she thought, is a paradox: it is the sort of thing people do out of sheer inability to do anything else. Work is the chosen avocation of those who have no other calls on their time."

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My new blog post on Anita Brookner's superb novel, A START IN LIFE. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/a...

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On my blog today, I've written about Anita Brookner's brilliant, sad, and witty novel, A START IN LIFE. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/a...

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My new blog post on Celia Dale's wonderfully unsettling novel of devotion and deception, A SPRING OF LOVE. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/a...

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My first review for #ReadIndies comes from Peirene Press - Andrej Nikolaidis' apocalyptic novel Anomaly (translated by Will Firth): 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/a...

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Reading plans in the coming weeks.

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What I read in January, some fab books. The Morante is an ongoing read for #NYRBWomen25.

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I ranked 10 books by Daphne du Maurier - do you agree?

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"For they were close. She could never doubt that. They were close in the habits of their lives, in their sleep, their occasional intercourse, their ordinary conversation, in tastes unspoken and looks exchanged...for no reason save that they were in the same place together."

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