Over on Vulpes Libris I've posted a review of Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn. I really liked it, but I wasn't quite convinced by how he covered the intimately feminine aspects of Éilis's experiences. Tóibín is very good on sea-bathing sex and shaving for bathing-suits, but he says nothing about menstrual blood or the fretting about white skirts that was … Continue reading Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
Category: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Don’t fall off the roof: Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s The Home-Maker
This time in the Really Like This Book podcast scripts catch-up, I’m in 1920s small town America, in the midst of an unhappy family where the father hates working and wants to stay at home taking care of the children, and the mother hates being trapped in the house and longs to be out in … Continue reading Don’t fall off the roof: Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s The Home-Maker