Lelia
Book Review: Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
I’m not sure what happened in Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett, but I loved every minute of it. From what I gathered, a young woman, who’s ...
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Lelia
- Jul 11
- 2 min
Book Review: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
I can’t say I enjoyed this book. Before reading it and after reading it, I had the impression of someone who’d co-opted her life...
Lelia
- Jul 7
- 2 min
Book Review: Tom Nolan's Ross Macdonald: A Biography
“What the reader hopes most to see in a biography is the work of the intelligent scholar who also feels an affinity for his subject.” -...
Lelia
- Jul 7
- 1 min
Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form and Emptiness
This book was too disappointing to finish. I loved Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being, so maybe my hopes were too high for this one. But...
Lelia
- Jul 29, 2022
- 3 min
Pym, Woolf and the Small Things in Life
“The position of unmarried women—unless, of course, she is somebody’s mistress, is of no interest whatsoever to the reader of modern...
Lelia
- Mar 19, 2022
- 2 min
Trying and Losing in Fitzgerald's The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald writes such quietly brutal books. Florence Green with her naivete and kindness says toward the end of The Bookshop,...
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