The A to Z Challenge

Authors:

Braddon, ME: Aurora Floyd

Dunant, Sarah: Blood and Beauty

Epstein, Jennifer Coy: The Gods of Heavenly Punishment

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield: The Home-Maker

Gordon, Lucie Duff: Letters From Egypt

Hamilton, Patrick: Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

Jesse, F Tennyson: Moonraker

Kahneman, Daniel: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Le Faye, Deirdre: Jane Austen's Letters

Mackail, Denis: Greenery Street

Newmark, Elle: The Sandalwood Tree

Parker, Dorothy: The Portable Dorothy Parker

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur and Daphne Du Maurier: Castle Dor

Raybourn, Deanna: A Spear of Summer Grass

Sayers, Dorothy: Busman's Honeymoon

Thirkell, Angela: Trooper to the Southern Cross

Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth

Titles:

Anne of Avonlea, by LM Montgomery

Bonk, by Mary Roach

Celia's House, by DE Stevenson

The Doll and Other Stories, by Daphne Du Maurier

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald

A Half Forgotten Song, by Katherine Webb

I've Got Your Number, by Sophie Kinsella

Katherine, by Anya Seton

Loitering With Intent, by Muriel Spark

The Montana Stories, by Katherine Mansfield

No Signposts in the Sea, by Vita Sackville-West

Old New York, by Edith Wharton

The Persephone Book of Short Stories

Quartet in Autumn, by Barbara Pym

The Sugar House, by Antonia White

Thank Heaven Fasting, by EM Delafield

The Village, by Marghanita Laski

The Wild Rose, by Jennifer Donnelly

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Another giveaway

This time, the publicist at WW Norton sent me two copies of The Glass of Time , by Michael Cox--so I'm giving away the second copy. Cox is the author of The Meaning of Night, and this book is the follow-up to that. Leave a comment here to enter to win it! The deadline is next Sunday, 10/5/08.

Review: Mariana, by Monica Dickens

Mariana is the story of one young girl’s growth towards adulthood during the 1920s and ‘30s. The book begins when Mary Shannon is eight, and traveling with her somewhat flighty mother to Charbury, her grandparents’ house; and continues up through the time that Mary is twenty-four and waiting to hear news of her husband from the war. Monica Dickens (a great-granddaughter of Charles) depicts Mary’s maturation to adulthood with perfection. The reader sympathizes with Mary as she experiences the ups and downs of relationships and careers—experimenting with both seems to be pretty characteristic of Mary, as she grapples a bit with identity and independence. And yet, there isn’t the usual amount of teenage angst that one usually finds in a novel about growing up, which I found to be very refreshing. Mary is a sweet and sometimes naïve girl, but at the same time, she’s also wonderfully sarcastic towards her peers. She’s hard to like at times, but in an odd way, I found myself sympathizing wi...

A giveaway winner, and another giveaway

The winner of the Girl in a Blue Dress contest is... Anna, of Diary of An Eccentric ! My new contest is for a copy of The Shape of Mercy , by Susan Meissner. According to Publisher's Weekly : Meissner's newest novel is potentially life-changing, the kind of inspirational fiction that prompts readers to call up old friends, lost loves or fallen-away family members to tell them that all is forgiven and that life is too short for holding grudges. Achingly romantic, the novel features the legacy of Mercy Hayworth—a young woman convicted during the Salem witch trials—whose words reach out from the past to forever transform the lives of two present-day women. These book lovers—Abigail Boyles, elderly, bitter and frail, and Lauren Lars Durough, wealthy, earnest and young—become unlikely friends, drawn together over the untimely death of Mercy, whose precious diary is all that remains of her too short life. And what a diary! Mercy's words not only beguile but help Abigail and Lars...

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