CurrerBell's One Hundred

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{K} = Kindle

January (11)
February (12)
March (10)
April (13)
May (11)
June (13)
July (12)
August (10)
September (12)
October (20)
November (7)
December (15)

Welcome! I love your username. She's my favorite.

I posted the Edmund Dulac illustrations to Agnes Grey to a Virago group-read thread. One of these days I mean to scan the entire six volumes and post them to a Brontë/Dulac thread on the VMC group. My own personal Top Three (in order) are Jane Eyre, The Master and Margarita, and Frost in May.

(ETA: And my favorite literary villain is Miss Scatcherd. "You dirty, disagreeable girl! You have not cleaned your nails this morning!")

Oh, those are gorgeous.

SHE IS TERRIBLE. Poor Helen. Jane Eyre is my favorite book too. It is perfect in every way (if I was to quibble with perfection, it would be the endless St. John section.)

>5 jfetting: BTW, St. John Rivers was apparently based on Henry Nussey, a brother of Ellen Nussey (one of CB's two best-friends-forever from school days). Henry proposed to CB on more than one occasion, not out of any sense of "romance" but because he thought she'd make a good clergyman's wife. CB got a kick out of sending St. John to India and killing him off.

January

2 ... {R} Sue Grafton, A Is for Alibi / B Is for Burglar / C Is for Corpse
6 ... {R} Sue Grafton, D Is for Deadbeat / E Is for Evidence / F Is for Fugitive
9 ... {R} Jack London: Novels and Stories
11 ... {R} Sue Grafton, G Is for Gumshoe / H Is for Homicide / I Is for Innocent
15 ... {R} Sue Grafton, J Is for Judgment / K Is for Killer / L Is for Lawless
19 ... {R} Sue Grafton, M Is for Malice / N Is for Noose / O Is for Outlaw
24 ... {R} Juliet Barker, Wordsworth: A Life
28 ... Sue Grafton, P Is for Peril
30 ... {K} Wentworth Webster, Basque Legends
31 ... Robert Service, The Spell of the Yukon
31 ... {K} Mariana Monteiro, Legends and Popular Tales of the Basque People

I was very sad to read about Sue Grafton's death just a few days ago. I have read a lot of the Alphabet series and think that Kinsey Milhone ois a great character.

Best wishes for a great year of reading.

February

2 ... {R} Enid Bagnold, The Squire
4 ... {R} Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
6 ... {R} Jack London: Novels and Social Writings
10 ... {K} Dorothy Canfield Fisher, The Brimming Cup (in The Works of Dorothy Canfield Fisher)
11 ... {R} Earle Lord, Jack London: An American Life
13 ... Sue Grafton, Q is for Quarry
16 ...{R} Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
17 ... {R} The Complete Works of Nathanael West
18 ... {R} Bruce Gordon, The Swiss Reformation
18 ... Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
24 ... {R} Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde
27 ... {R} Gore Vidal, Hollywood

I've been wanting to read Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Did you like it?

>10 jfetting: It's a bit of a fluff piece but I liked it. Sort of "Jane Austen meets Lemony Snicket" – social comedy moving along with the breathless pace of A Series of Unfortunate Events. (ETA: I've had it in TBR for ages and was prompted to read it by a Persephone readathon.)

>10 jfetting: I didn't really care for Miss Pettigrew....as Mike said, all fluff.....

March

2 .... {K} Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rough-Hewn (in The Works of Dorothy Canfield Fisher) — count with Feb 10
3 .... {R} A Muriel Spark Trio – (count with other Muriel Sparks)
8 .... {R} E.H. Young, Jenny Wren
8 .... In the Shadow of Agatha Christie
9 ... {R} Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
11 ... Sue Grafton, R Is for Ricochet
16 ... Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak
18 ... Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Twisted Staff
23 ... {R} E.H. Young, The Curate's Wife
23 ... {R} Mary Ellen Chase, The Girl from the Big Horn Country
24 ... Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart
30 ... {R} E.H. Young, The Vicar's Daughter

April

4 ..... Eugene Vodolazkin, The Aviator
5 ..... {R}Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
7 ..... {R} Rosamond Lehmann, The Ballad and the Source
10 ... {R} Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
14 ... {R} Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate
17 ... {R} Rosamond Lehmann, The Gipsy's Baby
19 ... {R} Rosamond Lehmann, A Note in Music
21 ... Rosamond Lehmann, Invitation to the Waltz
21 ... {R} Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, My Fair Lady
24 ... {R} Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman (Norton Critical)
25 ... {R} Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon
26 ... {R} Rosamond Lehmann, The Weather in the Streets
28 ... Rosamond Lehmann, A Sea-Grape Tree

May

5 ... Rosamond Lehmann, The Echoing Grove
7 ... {R} William Lederer and Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American
16 .. Pamela Ellsworth, M.D., 100 Questions & Answers about Prostate Cancer (4th ed)
19 .. Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
20 .. Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze
22 .. {R} Juliet R.V. Barker, Sixty Treasures: The Brontë Parsonage Museum
22 .. {R} Mary Ellen Chase, The White Gate
25 .. Katherine Applegate, Endling #1: The Last
26 .. {R} Angela Carter (ed.), The Virago Book of Fairy Tales
28 .. {R} Angela Carter, Wise Children
30 .. Muriel Spark, Doctors of Philosophy: A Play

June

2 ... Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood
4 ... Stephanie Garber, Caraval
8 ... Peter Brown, The Wild Robot
8 ... All the Poems of Muriel Spark
10 .. Kathryn Lomas, The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars
14 .. {K} Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
15 .. {R} Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Norton Critical Edition)
18 .. Mercedes Lackey, The Hills Have Spies
18 .. Simone Weil, Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us (ed. Laurie Gagne)
25 .. Muriel Spark, {K} All the Stories of Muriel Spark (all three count as one)
          ..... Open to the Public: New & Collected Stories
          ..... {R} The Stories of Muriel Spark
26 .. {R} Megan Marshall, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
27 .. Maryrose Wood, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book VI: The Long-Lost Home
30 .. Winifred Holtby, South Riding

July

1 ... Winifred Holtby, Poor Caroline
4 ... Christopher S. Wren, Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution
11 .. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Norton Critical Editions)
13 .. {R} Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Norton Critical Editions) (Third Edition)
17 .. {R} Eric Jay Dolin, Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
18 .. Jay Presson Allen (and Muriel Spark), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Drama in Three Acts
24 .. {R} Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings: Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson
27 ... Muriel Spark Omnibus 3
28 ... {R} Mary Ellen Chase, Sailing the Seven Seas
31 ... Molly Keane, The Rising Tide
31 ... {R} Mary Ellen Chase, Donald McKay and the Clipper Ships
31 ... {R} Mary Ellen Chase, The Fishing Fleets of New England

August

1 ... {R} Mary Ellen Chase, Victoria: A Pig in a Pram
2 ... Muriel Spark, Curriculum Vitae
3 ... {R} Edna St Vincent Millay, Conversation at Midnight
5 ... {R} Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident
10 .. {K} Angela Thirkell, High Rising
13 .. {K} Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries
14 .. Muriel Spark, The Golden Fleece: Essays
30 .. {R} Rachel Ferguson, A Harp in Lowndes Square
30 .. {K} Paul Doiron, The Poacher's Son
31 .. Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You

September

1 ... Muriel Spark Omnibus 4
2 ... Katherine Applegate, Wishtree
2 ... Robert Beatty, Willa of the Wood
4 ... Sharon Creech, The Great Unexpected
18 .. {R} Alcoholics Anonymous, Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers
20 .. {R} Alcoholics Anonymous, 'Pass It On': The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A. A. Message Reached the World
22 .. Charis Cotter, The Ghost Road
27 .. {R} Alcoholics Anonymous (Bill W.), Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age
27 .. {R} Stevie Smith, The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith
28 .. {R} Jack Kerouac, Road Novels: 1957-1960)
28 .. {R} Rumer Godden, The River (Virago Modern Classics)
29 .. Muriel Spark Omnibus 2

October

1 ... Gordon Dickson, Masters of Everon
2 ... Muriel Spark, The Novels of Muriel Spark: Volume 1
3 ... {R} Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
4 ... {R} Muriel Spark, Symposium
5 ... {R} Muriel Spark, Reality and Dreams
7 ... {R} G.B. Trudeau, YUGE! 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump
7 ... The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark
8 ... {R} Maryrose Wood, The Poison Diaries
10 .. Olivia Manning, The Wind Changes
11 .. Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting
13 .. Muriel Spark, The Finishing School
15 .. E.B. White, One Man's Meat
15 .. Santa Montefiore et al, The Royal Rabbits of London
18 .. {R} Stephane Melchior, The Golden Compass Graphic Novel
20 .. {R} Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan
22 .. Anna Beer, Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
23 .. Eliot Schrefer, The Lost Rainforest: Mez's Magic
24 .. War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (ed. Lawrence Rosenwald Library of America)
28 .. Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune
28 .. {R} Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark: The Biography

I do love Muriel Spark.

>21 jfetting: Being read in a read-a-thon for Spark's centenary.

November

10 ... Sue Grafton, S is for Silence
12 ... {K} Paul Doiron, Trespasser: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries Book 2)
17 ... {R} Velma Bourgeois Richmond, The Faerie Queene As Children's Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures
19 ... Bridget Collins. The Binding
27 ...{R} Antonia White, As Once in May
29 .. {R} F. Tennyson Jesse, The Lacquer Lady
(Dec) 1 ... {R} Keith Bildstein, Raptors: The Curious Nature of Diurnal Birds of Prey

December

7 ... {R} Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, edited by Janis Ian and Mike Resnick
8 ... Brandon Mull, Wrath of the Dragon King
9 ... {K} Paul Doiron, Bad Little Falls
10 .. {R} Laura Amy Schlitz, The Night Fairy
10 .. {R} Kate O'Brien, Mary Lavelle
11 .. {R} Philip Pullman, I Was a Rat
11 .. {R} Melina Marchetta, Jellicoe Road
17 .. {R} American Fantastic Tales:Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's to Now (LoA), Peter Straub (ed.)
21 .. {K} Paul Doiron, Massacre Pond
21 .. {K} Paul Doiron, The Bone Orchard
24 .. {K} Paul Doiron, The Precipice
24 .. {K} Paul Doiron, Widowmaker
24 .. {K} Paul Doiron, Knife Creek
28 .. {K} Paul Doiron, Stay Hidden
31 .. Sue Grafton, T Is for Trespass