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Knitting Clio is Mad as Hell at Publisher’s Weekly
via She Writes, who tells us that Publishers Weekly included ZERO female authors in its list of best books of 2009. The blog encourages us women writers to participate in SHE WRITES DAY OF ACTION. Here’s what they ask us to do, including my replies:
“By Friday, November 13th, please do three simple, but enormously powerful, [...]
Book Club: The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
Our August book club selection was The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips. It tells the story of the Moores, a Depression-era coal mining family in Alabama. For them, the Depression is nothing new — they have been barely getting by all their lives. But not to worry, this is not “The Waltons.“ Parents Leta [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book Club: Bad Girls Go Everywhere
This feature has been missing from my blog lately because in March, I missed the meeting but read the book (The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel). This was a great read for women’s history month. Koppel found the said diary in a dumpster outside her apartment and has created a very engaging reconstruction of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book Club double shot: Netherland and The Women
Regular readers of this blog probably noticed that there have been no book club entries for quite some time (the last one was back in December). That’s because this week was the first time we’ve been able to meet. The January meeting got postponed so that folks could watch the Inauguration festitivites, and February got [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Women’s History Month Blogfest: Book Discussion of Judith Bennett’s History Matters
Several of my feminist blogger colleagues have decided to host a blog-based discussion of Judith Bennett’s book History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.) Each Monday in the month of March, one of them will write a post to her blog and each will comment on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )BBC Booklist
From Clio Bluestocking.
BBC Book List — the beeb came up with this thinking that the average Brit has only read six of these. Let’s see how well this Yank does.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you [...]
Cool New Book by Local Author
Just got an announcement about this new book by local author and Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell. She will be doing a book signing and talk at Hartford Seminary on February 24th. Click here for more information.
I don’t subscribe to the Courant but I’ll be subscribing to Campbell’s blog from now on.
Book Club: The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Knitting Clio appears to be turning into a slow blog, but I finally have come up with something to post. This month’s book club selection was Wally Lamb’s latest novel, The Hour I First Believed. It was a good thing we had Thanksgiving break to read this, because this is one very long book. Lamb’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book Club: Deaf Sentence
This week, book club finally met to discuss David Lodge’s excellent novel, Deaf Sentence (we had to postpone a month due to various schedule conflicts). The protagonist, Desmond Bates, is a middle-aged linguistics professor who has retired from his job because of high-frequency deafness. Lodge’s description of Desmond’s condition is based on his [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Book Club: Half a Yellow Sun
This week’s announcement that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won a prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius grant”, reminded me to make a quick post that our book club discussed her fabulous novel, Half a Yellow Sun last week (please note we selected this over a month ago — do we have great taste or what?) The fact that [...]
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