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“The children are a world unto themselves”
Happy December to all of you! I’d love to hear what you’re reading these days. I’m always looking for recommendations even though I’ll never be able to keep up with all the books I want to read. After...
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Prudence and Romance in the “Golden Crescent”: Uzma Jalaluddin’s Much Ado...
Uzma Jalaluddin’s novel Much Ado About Nada was inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion as well as (more obviously) by Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. I enjoyed reading scenes set on the University...
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“Where to look for the threads”
I’ve been reading Eudora Welty recently. I started with One Writer’s Beginnings, which was a present from my sister Bethie, and I loved it so much that I immediately ordered her collected stories and...
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Sense and Enthusiasm
Happy 248th birthday to Jane Austen! Last summer’s roses in the Historic Gardens at Annapolis Royal, photographed by Brenda Barry To celebrate, I thought I’d write about an Austen-inspired novel I...
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Season’s Blessings
Season’s Blessings and best wishes at Christmas to you! I found this postcard at Effex Vintage last month, and I thought I’d send it to all of you with a wish for peace and happiness for you and your...
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Happy 100th Birthday to Emily of New Moon!
The first novel in L.M. Montgomery’s trilogy about a young writer, Emily Byrd Starr, was published in 1923. One hundred years later, although Emily of New Moon has many fans, she isn’t nearly as...
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“While reading Mary McCarthy’s The Stones of Florence”
For today’s blog post, I have the great pleasure of introducing a poem by Sandra Barry. You might remember her beautiful poem “Old Rusty Metal Things,” which I shared here last April, and the...
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“Wondering what will happen next”
I’m reading Shawna Lemay’s beautiful and thought-provoking new book Apples on a Windowsill, a collection of essays on still life, memory, art, and marriage, and I’m fascinated by what she says about...
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Celebrating Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and L.M. Montgomery’s 150th...
I’m delighted to announce “A Summer Party for Sense and Sensibility” and “‘A world of wonderful beauty’: L.M. Montgomery at 150,” two exciting projects I’m planning for later this year. Contributors...
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Let’s read Kilmeny of the Orchard in May (#ReadingKilmeny)
Please join my friend Naomi and me to read L.M. Montgomery’s Kilmeny of the Orchard in May. I thought I’d send out the invitation now to make sure anyone who wants to join us has time to read or...
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