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.
My Christina Stead Viragos
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!
Which one will I choose?
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings 
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!