Intended to post June reads and realized I had never posted May. Suite for Barbara Loden was my favorite, but all were very good. Another good month of #NYRBWomen23 and the Panter-Downes dovetailed nicely with the WWII selections.

September reads included books for #NYRBWomen23 , #CzechLitMonth , and #SpinsterSeptember

October reading. I enjoyed them all, but perhaps the Solnit was my favorite. Loved the references to two books I own: Views of the Mississippi and Death Valley in '49. Read two for #NYRBWomen23 and the Jackson for #1962club .

#NowReading #NYRBWomen23 #BarbaraComyns #ReadMoreWomen

I have hardly posted on this platform for 6 months, so I have some catching up to do. These are the books I read in November and December. I liked every one, with the highlights being Briggs, Kurkov, Manchette, with my favorite The Land of Little Rain. #NYRBWomen23

Finally posting my June reads. Favorites were the Ginzburg, Woolf, Comyns, and Fitzgerald. #NYRBWomen23 #BTAWoolf2023

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
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The books I read in December (not pictured Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell📱) #nyrbwomen23

Joining in for this one #NYRBWomen23 , so far can't put it down.

Letting Eve “have (her) way” and going to California in my mind. #NYRBWomen23

A new #nyrbwomen23 adventure, this time to Hollywood in the 1950's #ReadMoreWomen #EveBabbitz

read like Eve Babitz; I am really enjoying Eve’s Hollywood. #NYRBWomen23

New blog post today on MY BEST BOOKS OF 2023 featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Edith Wharton, Lion Feuchtwanger, Maeve Brennan, Leonora Carrington and many more.
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Helen Oyeyemi's introduction to THUS WERE THEIR FACES is itself a work of art, and Silvina Ocampo's own introduction had me nearly in tears as she articulated why anyone tries to make up new combinations of words. #NYRBWomen23

from Basic Black with Pearls by Helen Weinzweig ✨ #NYRBWomen23

#NYRBWomen23 I was at a museum today and it took me a while to realize who this Leonora Carrington was... the writer of The Hearing Trumpet.

#NYRBWomen23 I sent this to my son, raised in San Francisco, and asked him if this is what we did. Yes. This story must be my punishment!🧐😕😇

Excellent description of waiting. #NYRBWomen23

#NYRBWomen23 Our Spoons came from Woolworths The unconscious controlling attitudes of the men in this book are anguishing. Charles’ idea Ch 14 that their child should ‘be put in a home for children whose parents could not afford to keep them’ is particularly shocking. Poor Sophia

I’m dying to know more about the protagonist in BASIC BLACK WITH PEARLS #NYRBWomen23