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oursin

Recent Reading 3: litfic and Other

Nov 23, 2007 17:14

Lit (or at least, non-genre) fic:

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872), for the uncountableth time, on the plane. Age cannot wither, nor custom stale.

( E H Young, The Curate's Wife )

letters, middlemarch, women, cleanliness, books, mitfords, litfic, journalism, biography, reading, autobiography, george eliot

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pameladean November 23 2007, 18:08:13 UTC

You do actually literally meet two of the characters from A Winter's Love in later fiction by L'Engle -- Mimi in A Severed Wasp and Virginia in (I think) Troubling a Star. I've never decided whether this makes the basic problem of her having a fairly small cast of mental characters to choose from better or worse. (I am haplessly fond of L'Engle even though she drives me to despair on a regular basis.)

P.

desayunoencama November 23 2007, 18:12:22 UTC

Interesting.

I have A SEVERED WASP waiting on the interminable to-be-read stacks.

pameladean November 23 2007, 20:12:54 UTC

There's a huge cast of familiar characters, actually. I had fun identifying them all.

P.

sdn November 23 2007, 19:14:55 UTC

why does l'engle drive you to despair on a regular basis?

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desayunoencama November 23 2007, 18:11:46 UTC

I've never heard of that Godden either.

Interesting.

THE RIVER, one of her lesser known books of which I'm fond, was just translated into Spanish.

oursin November 23 2007, 20:39:30 UTC

There is an absolutely wonderful movie of The River, made on location, with Godden I think on hand as advisor, in India, by Jean Renoir (the famous film director son of the Impressionist) - his first film in colour. It has recently been reissued in a new print - I caught up with it last year at the National Film Theatre.

desayunoencama November 23 2007, 22:22:39 UTC

Will keep my eyes open, although it's doubtful it will come to Madrid ever.
:-(

oursin November 24 2007, 10:36:19 UTC

It is out on DVD... (Region 2)

gillo November 23 2007, 18:58:34 UTC

Katharine Whitehorn has been reading her book on the radio this week - did you catch any of it? (Radio 4, so you can use the Listen Again facility if you want to.)

richenda November 23 2007, 19:05:51 UTC

I've been listening to KW reading the book - her voice hasn't changed an iota since I last heard her on the telephone in 1975 or thereabouts.
I came to Severed Wasp after the children's books, and liked it, but I don't know this one.