I read Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz in August for #NYRBWomen25 but only got around to writing about it now. I was going to skip it at first, but my curiosity got the better of me, and after reading three chapters, I knew I was all the way in. Originally published in 1968, Talk is an…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Mavis Gallant’s Paris Stories was the eighth book I read as part of the excellent #NYRBWomen25 reading project, and what a sublime collection it was! This also happened to be the first book I read …| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I read Caroline Blackwood’s marvellous Great Granny Webster for #NYRBWomen25, the fifth book I’ve now read as part of this terrific reading project. I read this in April but could not write about i…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I had read Elizabeth Hardwick’s essay collection Seduction and Betrayal many years ago but unfortunately did not write about it at the time, although I have a vague recollection of being impressed …| Radhika's Reading Retreat
