‘All Passion Spent’ but New Obsessions Found.

by Sarah

Reading one of Jane’s delightful A to Z blog posts at Beyond Eden Rock, I decided to explore the monthly ‘Author Reads’ in the Virago Modern Classics group on Library Thing. I wasn’t… Continue reading →

The End of the Road!

by Sarah

I have finally completed all thirteen novels in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage – Hooray! For the most part, I’ve very much enjoyed spending the year with Miriam Henderson. The earlier novels were a complete joy –… Continue reading →

Welcome Fun and Frolics in the Snow

by Sarah

In Oberland, the ninth book in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage series, Miriam Henderson takes a fortnight’s trip to the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. This holiday, arranged and paid for by her employer, proved to not… Continue reading →

The End of a Very English Idyll.

by Sarah

Despite rationing my reading in order to eek out the experience for as long as possible, I have had to pack my bags, wave my goodbyes, and vacate the once majestic but now… Continue reading →

#AW80Books: What do you get if you let Merchant Ivory loose on ‘The Golden Girls’? Elizabeth Von Arnim’s ‘The Enchanted April’.

by Sarah

I’m not sure where or when I picked up a copy of Elizabeth Von Arnim’s ‘The Enchanted April’. I’m always on the look-out for the tell-tale Forest green of old Virago Modern Classics… Continue reading →

“I know now why I prefer books to people” – or, Why you should read ‘Honeycomb’ by Dorothy Richardson

by Sarah

Honeycomb is the third novel in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage series, and as with the preceding novels, only a week after finishing it, I was left scratching my head trying to recall what happened in it.… Continue reading →