The Jealous One is my first experience reading Celia Fremlin. It is the story of a disappearing neighbor, a disintegrating marriage, and tensions in suburbia. It mixes elements of mystery, domestic suspense, and beautifully observed social drama. All wrapped up in middle class anxiety.| Mysteries Ahoy!
I’ve read a couple of books by Michael Frayn from later in his career, but it’s quite a departure to read his debut novel – The Tin Men (1965). It is a raucous satire of – well, of quite a few things.| Stuck in a Book
We are now 12 weeks into my A to Z Challenge. To refresh anyone who has forgotten or who wasn’t here at the start, I have decided to comb through my photo archives to find pictures of cars wi…| J. P.'s Blog
LaBrant, L. (1965, April). Broadening the experiences of deprived readers. Education, 499–502. LaBrant discusses struggling reader, drawing on her experience with junior high students on the Lower East Side in New York City. Quoting LaBrant: We frequently overlook the need of the bilingual child or youth to take advantage of a language which is an intimate … Continue reading Broadening the experiences of deprived readers (1965)| Lou LaBrant: An Annotated Bibliography
