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Another couple of weeks and The Ragazzo and I will be on vacation in England, so I'll be selecting my vacation reads from among these (a...

Imani's first annual Outmoded Authors Challenge wrapped up yesterday. I challenged myself to read six books by four authors. Unfortun...

We spent the night in Amish country in a lovely B&B - only the sound of the river running by the house and the horse and buggies as the ...

Count down! Olivia Manning's The Balkan Trilogy is such a vivid account of what it must have been like, I imagine, to be an ex-pat durin...

What was most impressive in The Great Fortune , the first of the three books in The Balkan Trilogy , is how Olivia Manning creates a story o...

I have begun The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning, my second book for the Outmoded Authors Challenge hosted by Imani. It and The Levant ...

I've completed my first book on the Outmoded Author's Challenge ! Reading Faithful are the Wounds again for the first time in 20 ...

I've finished reading The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies. I've said most of what I've wanted to here , here , and here . There...

Imani has posed two challenges of writers fallen from grace - Index Librorum Liberorum is a list devised by the Catholic church of books to...