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August 7, 2020

REVIEW: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

JennieA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsBritish humor / classic fiction / Satire10 Comments

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After I finished Little Women, a book it somehow took me five months to read, I wanted to read something a bit lighter, quicker, and funny. Applying my self-created rules for classic literature reads, “lighter, quick and funny” don’t abound. The vast majority of classics that I read are 18th ... more >

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July 15, 2020

Reading List by Jennie for April Through June 2020

JennieBook Reviews / Reading Listsclassic fiction / historical romance / History / mystery / Reading lists / Satire / Suspense23 Comments

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Is it a shameful to admit that I’ve never before read Little Women? At least not that I can recall – it may have been one of those books that I started and put down in my youth. Still, I’ve seen both of the ... more >

December 18, 2017

Monday News: “Literary necrophilia,” octopi, history of book covers, and bad holiday cards

JanetPublishing Newsauthorial persona / book-covers / cover-art / holiday cards / octopus / reader expectations / Satire / social mediaComments Off on Monday News: “Literary necrophilia,” octopi, history of book covers, and bad holiday cards

Book Lovers: Literary Necrophilia in the 21st Century – A very interesting piece from Joanna Walsh on the continually evolving relationship between author and text. The necrophilia in the title relates in part to the conceptual “death of the author,” and the reader’s attempt to mark their relationship to the ... more >

May 24, 2017

REVIEW: So Wild the Heart by Geoffrey Trease

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century / class differences / England / Historical / Italy / Oxford / Regency / Satire / scholar9 Comments

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Thomas Adam, junior Fellow of St. Columb’s College at Oxford University, is one of countless English travellers crossing the channel to explore the reopened Continent after the Napoleonic wars. With Boney imprisoned, there is no time like the present to experience French wine and the Italian countryside — at least, ... more >

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September 4, 2015

Friday News: ebook sales drop, female representation in tech already dropped, punctuation evolves, and Sociality Barbie rules

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / Amazon / Barbie / Ebooks / gender / History / Instagram / parody / publishing / punctuation / Satire / technology18 Comments

E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contract – Is anyone surprised? Or rather, does anyone really think that publishers care? Given traditional publishing’s reliance on the hardcover, what, precisely, is the incentive to encourage higher ebook sales? In fact, the comment below about higher sales of paper books suggests a belief ... more >

July 17, 2015

Friday News: debut novels, anti-privacy regulations, thoughts on the confederate flag, and “letters” to an editor

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / Harper Lee / Internet / Kenya / privacy / Race / Satire1 Comments

Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Anticipated Debuts -Publishers Weekly has posted a list of debut novels for fall, and frankly some of the stories of how these books got published sound as interesting as the books themselves. Ruth Galm’s Into the Valley, for example, was published from Soho Press’ slush ... more >

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