There will be a brief pause in fortnightly books, to be back after various holiday things. We're about forty-two or so books in, so it seemed good to give an index to it all. A lot of them have been re-reads, but of those that were first-times, the most pleasant surprises, I think, were Njal's Saga and Death Comes for the Archbishop, and perhaps also The Song of Bernadette. The biggest disappointment is still The Red and the Black.
November 24: Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange& Mr Norrell
Introduction; Review
November 10: Charles Williams, Many Dimensions
Introduction; Review
October 27: Bram Stoker, Dracula
Introduction; Review
October 13: Jane Austen, Lady Susan
Introduction; Review
September 29: Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Introduction; Review
September 15: Tim Powers, Declare
Introduction; Review
September 1: Mac Hyman, No Time for Sergeants
Introduction; Review
August 18: Booth Tarkington, Monsieur Beaucaire
Introduction; Review
August 4: J.R.R. Tolkien, Roverandom
Introduction; Review
July 14: Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Introduction; Review; Background Timeline
June 23: Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette
Introduction; Review; Background Timeline
June 9: Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier
Introduction; Review
May 26: Dale Brown, Storming Heaven; Dale Brown, Shadows of Steel
Introduction; Review
April 28: John P. Marquand, Think Fast, Mr. Moto
Introduction; Review
April 14: Roger Donlon (as told to Warren Rogers), Outpost of Freedom
Introduction; Review
March 31: George Bernard Shaw, Two Plays for Puritans; George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
Introduction; Review
March 10: Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter
Introduction; Review
February 24: Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Introduction; Review
February 10: J. Harvey Howells, The Big Company Look
Introduction; Review
January 27: Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Introduction; Review
January 13: George B. Markle IV, The Teka Stone
Introduction; Review
2012
November 25: Njal's Saga
Introduction; Review
November 11: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrén
Introduction; Review
October 28: The Kalevala
Introduction; Review
October 14: C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Introduction; Review
September 30: Kenneth Dodson, Away All Boats
Introduction; Review
September 16: James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
Introduction; Review
September 2: Edna Ferber, Cimarron
Introduction; Review
August 19: Johann Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson
Introduction; Review
Prior to August 19, the series was 'Book a Week'; it was changed to 'Fortnightly Book' to make it a bit more manageable in busy times.
August 12: George MacDonald, Lilith
Introduction; Review
August 5: Noél Coward, Future Indefinite
Introduction; Review
July 29: Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
Introduction; Review
July 22: Ernest Haycox, The Adventurers
Introduction; Review
July 15: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Introduction; Review
July 8: Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Introduction; Review; Background Timeline
June 24: Jane Austen, Sanditon; Jane Austen, The Watsons
Introduction; Review
June 17: Theodore Morrison, The Devious Way
Introduction; Review
June 10: Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
Introduction; Review
June 3: Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
Introduction; Review
May 27: Norman Douglas, South Wind
Introduction; Review
May 20: Frank G. Slaughter, Sword and Scalpel
Introduction; Review
May 13: Magdalen King-Hall, The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765
Introduction; Review
