The first two books I read for WIT Month in August were excellent – Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas and Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer. While I originally planned to read another novel, as soon as Lili is Crying arrived by post, I suddenly felt I had to read it first. And it…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Imagine an ambulance crew who decided they wouldn’t go to help a casualty because they’d seen one too many people injuring themselves because of drinking too much. It doesn’t seem likely. Yet compa…| Market Garden Reader
Nina Bouraoui’s novel Satisfaction is told in the form of journal entries. The journals, seven of them, belong to Mme Akli and cover the period 1977-1978. Mme Akli is a French woman married t…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
This post contains minor spoilers. My Classics Club list contains quite a few novels that I read in an abridged form in my childhood. One such text is Jules Verne’s French classic Voyage au centre de la Terre, first published in 1864. A revised version containing additional chapters appeared in 1867. It is this edition … Continue reading #Classics Club: Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (1867)→| a hot cup of pleasure
Originally published in French, The Radiance of the King is the most famous novel of Camara Laye (1928–80), whose name is sometimes listed as Laye Camara. In contrast with a number of early African…| Literary Theory and Criticism
The Plague was written by Albert Camus (1913–60), one of the most gifted and influential writers and philosophers in the French language of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in liter…| Literary Theory and Criticism
