Barbara Pym, her novels and her relationship with her sister, Hilary, are at the forefront of my mind this week. I have just attended the Barbara Pym Conference on the theme of sisterhood, so Some Tame Gazelle (first published 1950, Virago Modern Classics 2009) is an appropriate place to begin. Barbara Pym’s first published novelContinue reading “Week beginning 7 September 2023”
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Janet Malcolm Still Pictures On Photography and Memory Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 I appreciate NetGalley having provided this uncorrected proof for me to read and review. I am so glad that they approved my request. Years ago Barbara Pym said of her novels: I might use Christopher Isherwood’s phrase ‘I am a camera’Continue reading “Week beginning”
Week beginning 5 April 2023
Suzanne Ferriss Lost in Translation Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Thank you NetGalley and Bloomsbury Academic for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Lost in Translation is a BFI Film Classics publication aimed at ‘introd[ucing]. Interpret[ing] and celebrat[ing] landmarks of world cinema’. Suzanne Ferris has fulfilled this task in an engaging and through manner, theContinue reading “Week beginning 5 April 2023”
Week beginning 14 December 2022
This week I review two uncorrected proofs sent to me by NetGalley, one fiction (The Concierge) and the other non-fiction (Shirley Chisholm Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics). Miranda Rijks The Concierge Inkubator Books Dec 2022 The pace of the story overcomes the implausibility of some of the earlier plotting which is quite absorbing. Ally,Continue reading “Week beginning 14 December 2022”
Week beginning 6 April 2022
This week, the review of a book about spinsterhood in which it is claimed that there are few positive images of spinsters in fiction, moved me to write about the spinsters that are an important part of Barbara Pym’s fiction. Pym gave a positive, often comic, and sometimes trenchant, voice to the spinsters in herContinue reading “Week beginning 6 April 2022”
Week beginning 16 March 2022
The books reviewed this week are both fiction. They were sent to me by NetGalley for review. Lisa Unger’s Last Girl Ghosted and the inspiring story of the women’s march to Washington by thousands of women after the election of former President Trump have feminist themes. On the March by Trudy Krisher is a particularlyContinue reading “Week beginning 16 March 2022”
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