Spurious (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Wasn't I supposed to write about Golding's Darkness Visible ? Didn't I write some notes on the inside cover as I read it over a number of afternoons in a cool room in Portugal? It began unpromisingly, didn't it? - I couldn't help but compare those opening pages with a bunch of conscript firemen in a bombed out London of the second world war (was it London') with Henry Green's caught....
A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
... work my way slowly through. We won't discuss it until September. Loving Living Party Going , by Henry Green - I love the cover of this book (click link to see it), and the contents sound pretty good, too. This (well, one of the novels/novellas in the book) is #89 on the Modern Library List . Wild Strawberries , by Angela Thirkell - I'm (very slowly) reading the Barsetshire novels...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
In 1922, according to Henry Yorke (Lord Leconfield’s nephew, the novelist Henry Green), Lady Leconfield asked her doctor to find her a beautiful baby girl to adopt. A boy, Peter, had already been adopted, but he had a bad squint.
