The latest in the Hardy group reading challenge.

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A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy s novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic. With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely ( Read more... )

It is now about time for those taking part in the Thomas Hardy reading project to begin our second book, "Under the Greenwood Tree" Which I last read in 2008. So this will be third reading of it for me.

I have been quite pleased with how things have gone so far. Although we haven't heard from everyone who joined the group - we have had some ( Read more... )

As I may have mentioned in some previous posts I am setting up a Thomas Hardy online readers group using the yahoo groups. The group will read and discuss one book every 2 months - the novels and short stories only. The project begins in July 2011, and so yesterday I set up the group, letting people know about on a UK bookcrossing forum BCUK, and ( Read more... )