Jessa Crispin recently wrote a review of Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey on NPR. An excerpt is included.
There is another Persephone offering here; Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski. Again the reviewer is Jessa Crispin, and she says:
we feel so close to the characters we can hear them breathing.
Both these books are high on my list for next year's purchases.
The NPR book site is a wonderful source of book information.
I agree. I also like their poetry readings by Garrison Keilor. I wish there were other stations like this.
ReplyDeleteI don't actually listen much to the station but I love the book and music pages online. If you are near enough to Canada, or can listen online, the CBC is a great, great station, my fave in the world.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbc.ca/radio/