Current:
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford: Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and married), flouted convention sensationally, and became the embodiment of the New Woman.
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers: When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy," the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters — including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes threaten murder; all are perfectly ghastly; yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection, and those of Lord Peter Wimsey.
Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
The Yellow Room Conspiracy by Peter Dickinson
Wait...only one? Yikes! And Goodreads says I'm six books behind my goal....gotta get busy!
Up Next:
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
English Music by Peter Ackroyd
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
(all for challenges)
This sounds like some pretty high brow reading. What? No vampires or werewolves? An admirable listing of literature.
ReplyDeleteLee
Tossing It Out
I am not really a vampire and werewolves kind of girl. Will be reading Stoker's Dracula in 2012 for a challege and I do like Gail Carriger's series...but that's about my limit.
ReplyDelete