For the Africa Reading Challenge.

( This novel has been in print longer than I have been alive. Expect to be spoiled accordingly. )

For the Africa Reading Challenge.

This novel was first published fifty years ago this year. Spoilers may occur in what you read next.

( Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe )

For the Africa Reading Challenge.

If the term "spoilers" can be used in the context of a book published in 1902, there will be spoilers ahead.

( Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad )

Reading challenges seem to circulate as memes in Blogger and Wordpress-based blogs. I don't know that I've ever come across one on LJ.

For me, this is a good one to start with.

Africa Reading Challenge

Participants commit to read - in the course of 2008 - six books that either were written by African writers, take place in Africa, or deal ( Read more... )

Taking women off the shelf
Rachel CookeI remember the first one like it was yesterday, the same way I remember the first time I got really drunk, or the first time I was kissed. It was Stevie Smith's Novel on Yellow Paper. I was going through a Stevie Smith phase, as you do when you are 17 and alternately furious and miserable. Is there any 17- ( Read more... )