February, Books Read: Mysteries, Non-Fiction, French Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction in Translation. . . . All the Books!

Whew! That’s a title, eh? I figured you might be wearying of “November Books Read, Books Read in December, January Books Read, etc., but I couldn’t quite rise to snappy. I’ll try harder next month…

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Ferrante ReadAlong — Trying to Wrap This Up, Impossibly. . . .

Okay, here goes. After beginning this ReadAlong perhaps too precipitously back in September, I’m keen now to finish before Christmas. I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to consider the novel more carefully and have been gratified by…

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ReadAlong post from Paris. . .

I hope you’re not becoming too impatient with my posts pleading for your patience. I’ve obviously bitten off more than my traveling self can chew — or write! — with this ReadAlong (plus the whole…

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Ferrante ReadAlong — Turning Points?

Edited to add: Thanks so much to Lisa for linking to this post and welcome to any visitors from Amid Privilege’s reading post. Although I’ve just written the last post in this Readalong, you’re very…

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Our Ferrante ReadAlong Continues, Chapters 21-30 of “Story of the Shoes”

It seems to me that in this section we start to see these adolescents, nearing adulthood,  beginning to sort out ways to exercise some agency, to try to make a difference, to change their communities…

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