Persephone Reading Week: Beginnings

Persephone Reading Week has begun! Two years ago, in an effort to become better read, I started reading from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list—of which Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day is one. I bought a Classics edition of the book at a Borders near where I worked at the time, during my lunch break. That led me to purchase The Priory online (though Amazon, so it didn’t come with one of their lovely bookmarks). Later, on a trip to London in September, I went to the Lamb’s Conduit Street shop, where I bought half a dozen more. For Christmas I received a Persephone subscription, and so every month a lovely Persephone arrives on my doorstep!

I’ve just started reading Dorothy Whipple’s They Were Sisters, so I don’t have much to report just yet. I read The Young Pretenders last week, and I’ll have a review of it up at some point this week. Until I’ve made progress in my reading, here are some links to other Persephone books I’ve reviewed on this blog:

No. 2: Mariana, by Monica Dickens

No. 3: Someone at a Distance, by Dorothy Whipple

No. 4: Fidelity, by Susan Glaspell

No. 6: The Victorian Chaise Lounge, by Marghanita Laski

No: 16: Saplings, by Noel Streatfeild

No. 21: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson

No. 29: The Making of a Marchioness, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

No. 32: The Carlyles at Home, by Thea Holme

No. 32: The Far Cry, by Emma Smith

No. 40: The Priory, by Dorothy Whipple

No. 68: The Expendable Man, by Dorothy Hughes

No. 81: Miss Buncle’s Book, by De Stevenson

If you’re participating in Persephone Reading Week, what are you reading? What are you looking forward to about this week?