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August Books
Sep. 1st, 2005 10:46 am( August Books )
6 rereads, out of a total 42 books. I've been on holiday twice this month, so I've had a lot of time to read, and there have been a lot of train journeys as well.
I really liked the two Emily Edens I read - The Semi-Detached House was my favourite of the two, although the anti-semitism was rather jarring. It's nineteenth century, and very funny indeed. On the strength of that, and also![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pisica linking a complete list of Virago books, I sought out some more reprints - Delta Wedding, The Love-Child, Doves of Venus and The Third Miss Symons. I preferred Doves of Venus of these, which is the story of a young woman moving to London to try to escape becoming nothing in her home town. It was pubished in 1960, but felt much earlier to me.
By far the worst book was She Went All The Way. I should have realised it was going to be dire, as I'd hated her last romance, but I like The Boy Next Door so much that I thought I would give it a try. Ugh. But The Master of the Shell was truly excellent! I will have to start looking out for more Baines Reed. I love Fifth Form at St Dominic's greatly, but I don't think I'd read another one of his.
6 rereads, out of a total 42 books. I've been on holiday twice this month, so I've had a lot of time to read, and there have been a lot of train journeys as well.
I really liked the two Emily Edens I read - The Semi-Detached House was my favourite of the two, although the anti-semitism was rather jarring. It's nineteenth century, and very funny indeed. On the strength of that, and also
pisica linking a complete list of Virago books, I sought out some more reprints - Delta Wedding, The Love-Child, Doves of Venus and The Third Miss Symons. I preferred Doves of Venus of these, which is the story of a young woman moving to London to try to escape becoming nothing in her home town. It was pubished in 1960, but felt much earlier to me.By far the worst book was She Went All The Way. I should have realised it was going to be dire, as I'd hated her last romance, but I like The Boy Next Door so much that I thought I would give it a try. Ugh. But The Master of the Shell was truly excellent! I will have to start looking out for more Baines Reed. I love Fifth Form at St Dominic's greatly, but I don't think I'd read another one of his.
