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About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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- I am yet again amazed
- Black swans and other surprises
- A death in books
- Victorian novels all scrunched up
- Catching up
- Mmmm...
- Manga Shakespeare
- I am clearly
- Guilty pleasures
- Caught red-harded
- A form of knowing, a story attached to it
- Glingle-glingle
- Civilization and other games
- The Motor Caravanning Club of Great Britain (South...
- It is not
- I have all sorts of great quotations
- On an entirely frivolous note
- Meat-heavy
- Herman Melville's Bartleby adopted by Up With People?
- Do-it-yourself spiral kits
- A quick light reading update
- The secret desires of the British
- The PEAR tree
- Short notice
- Martin Amis and Stalin's Russia
- Bombers streaming overhead like a well-regulated f...
- The Shakespeare brogue
- One blog
- What's going to be good
- We'll never have feral pugs
- An expenses claim for virtual sexual enlightenment
- I like it
- Also on an inspirational note
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Thanks for highlighting this. Your little namesake here is interested both in Manga and in Shakespeare, so I may get her one of these books. I've posted a link to this post on Librarian's Place, one of my many blogs. ;-)
ReplyDeleteBTW, our Jenny (age 11) recently finished her book and I gave her a massive pile from her queue to choose from (everyone in my family has a queue of books) --- she rejected them all in favour of "Good Wives" which she is currently devouring. Isn't that lovely? (I'm dreading the "Beth moment" though, although she has seen the movie so I hope it won't be too traumatic.)
That is indeed quite lovely, you must give her my best regards & tell her how very very much I loved those books when I was a kid! All of them, really; "Little Women" when I was younger, and then I compulsively reread "Little Men" (really, I think, the most appealing of the books, no?) and "Jo's Boys"--I think it was partly the vision of the liberal-arts college in the latter that I found so unbearably alluring... Whole passages of those books I feel are imprinted VERBATIM on my brain!
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