I thought I would just give a little heads-up that Lisa Hill at ANZ LitLovers Lit Bog is hosting a Christina Stead Reading Week, and you can see her master post here.
Stead was a highly regarded Australian novelist, and many of her works are available as Virago Modern Classics. I have several, and hope to dip into the reading week at some point.
So do join in if you can get hold of one of her books – from what I’ve seen and heard, she sounds like an intriguing read!
Nov 14, 2016 @ 07:03:41
Thanks so much for this!
As it happens I am reading the very same Virago copy that you have at left, The Beauties and Furies:)
Nov 14, 2016 @ 09:20:37
The Virago Steads are very lovely, aren’t they?
Nov 14, 2016 @ 08:23:10
a little tea and a chat 🙂
Nov 14, 2016 @ 09:20:23
It’s quite long, alas….. 🙂
Nov 14, 2016 @ 09:19:10
Oooh, probably won’t have the time to join in (wish it were a month instead of a week) but I really want to read The Man Who Loved Children, which is lurking somewhere on my bookcase.
Nov 14, 2016 @ 09:20:03
I shan’t get onto all the Steads I have lurking either, but I should manage something short! 🙂
Nov 14, 2016 @ 10:21:41
This has come at a bad time for me, but I’m hoping for inspiration for next year – after DR!
Nov 14, 2016 @ 10:31:36
🙂 Yes – DR is so all-consuming!
Nov 14, 2016 @ 17:25:50
I love Christina Stead! Thank God you’re here to tell me what’s going on online. The Man Who Loved Children is powerful, and though I haven’t liked the others as well, I do have a few I’ve never gotten around to. P.S. Viragos have such nice covers.
Nov 14, 2016 @ 19:08:00
The Virago covers are lovely, aren’t they? Yes, do go and check out Lisa’s site – she’s done lots of posts about Stead already!
Nov 14, 2016 @ 18:03:42
I won’t be joining in with this reading week Karen but I will enjoy reading the reviews thst pop up.
Nov 14, 2016 @ 19:07:25
Well, we can’t join in with everything – and I confess I’m only just squeaking something in!
Nov 20, 2016 @ 17:50:08
I am sorry that I hadn’t been able to join in. I have never heard of Stead and this would have been an opportunity to read a book or two. But, I noted her name on my reading list.
I’m deep into another Virago edition at the moment, Wolf’s ‘A Model Childhood’. This has been a month of Wolf for me.
Nov 20, 2016 @ 19:14:40
Stead is definitely worth exploring, on the strength of this story. Her books look quite varied, too – I like an author who isn’t all one thing. I can imagine that Wolf is all-absorbing. I’ve read some of her work and I like it very much, but it *is* a commitment!
Nov 27, 2016 @ 15:42:14
Wolf is definitely all-absorbing. I had to make a break after finishing ‘No Place on Earth’, ‘Cassandra’, and ‘They Divided the Sky’. Of course, I did…
I let my brain rest reading a nature book. Then I continued on to ‘A Model Childhood’. This one takes more time than the previous three combined, but it’s a time well invested. I grew to love her.
Nov 27, 2016 @ 16:48:51
I’ve loved what I’ve read of her too – I really must pick up some more of those books of her I have lurking on the shelves!