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.

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...

Review: The Piano Teacher, by Janice Y.K. Lee

The Piano Teacher is a complicated novel. On the surface, it’s about a love affair between two British ex-patriots in Hong Kong in 1952-3. Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong with her husband Martin at a time when the world is still recovering from WWII; Claire takes up work as a piano teacher for the daughter of a wealthy Chinese family, where she meets Will Truesdale, the Chens’ enigmatic chauffeur. The book jumps back in time between the 1950s and the beginning of WWII, when Will is interned in Stanley, a Hong Kong camp for enemies of Japan. On “the outside” is Tudy Liang, Will’s beautiful Eurasian lover. There’s no doubt that Lee’s writing is beautiful. But there’s something lacking in this short, terse novel that I can’t quite put my finger on. First, I think it’s the tenses she uses when taking about each story: that which is set in the 1950s is in the past tense, while the war scenes are talked about in the present tense (confusing, no?) The interpersonal relationships of the m...

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