Frances Evangelista

It will probably be out on Friday. We are a bit relaxed about our drop schedule.

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I agree!

Just kidding. Being obnoxious. You can always read it in the future. Who cares if you haven’t read it.

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And for what it’s worth, I would go with the same top four but in this order:
Orlando
The Waves
To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway

Don’t be sorry. I’m happy you value them all.

In whatever way you might take that.

Very nice of you to say. I do love a unicorn.

Podcast episode recorded, groceries obtained, lessons planned for the week. Starting The Double Turn by Carol Carnac, aka E. C. R. Lorac, aka Edith Caroline Rivett. No matter the name, her work is a personal favorite.

We talked about The Waves a little and Elizabeth Bowen’s assertion that Orlando was needed for Woolf to get to The Waves. Which is also a fantastic book. I get your love for it completely.

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I wasn’t able to convince @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social that Orlando is the greatest Woolf novel but it was still an enjoyable conversation. Look out for this next @onebrightbook.bsky.social episode towards the end of the week.

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Well said

I’m going to read this again later, Rohan. Thanks for sending. And your quote there is one of the things I love about the book. That tension that just keeps it from the spiraling.

I’m just going to read it one more time before the @onebrightbook.bsky.social discussion tomorrow. Would love to hear your thoughts on Orlando.

Wildflowers, a couple of springs ago, in the churchyard in Buckfastleigh, Devon. This is actually a very spooky spot in winter as it's the resting place of the allegedly Satanic Squire Richard Cabell - inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Baskerville legend - whose corpse is boxed in by a somewhat incongruous structure, a little pagoda-ish, but also not unlike the kind of public toilet you might find in a small British town, which sits on the south side of the church. Do NOT walk around it backwards as the Devil will bite your fingers and Cabell will release his hell hounds. Also, the church has been burned down by Satanists not once but TWICE in the last couple of centuries. (I wrote about all this in more detail in my book 21st-Century Yokel, and a couple of the scarier gravestones inspired bits in my novel Villager.

Wildflowers love dead people.

A MARSH ISLAND by Sarah Orne Jewett, including a conversational afterword with Frances Evangelista, Rebecca Hussey & Dorian Stuber.

Look what has arrived!! 🎉🎉 @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @nonsuchbook.bsky.social @ds228.bsky.social

I hope you love it as much as I do.

Genius. I think that’s what you meant.

Too tempting to avoid responding. I started laughing just thinking about what I might say.

Postponed due to illness. This Sunday it is.

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Awww! Rebecca don’t be nice to me now! That ruins it. Batty. I’m going with batty. 🤭

(laughing) I know! I’m so excited for Sunday! Orlando and smack talk! Does life get any better?

A delightful conversation about those unique books that defy description. I loved every moment of it even when Rebecca said she was the best of the @onebrightbook.bsky.social crew and called Dorian “basic” again. Best, basic…. Imagining which “b” word I am. 😊