The Virgin in the Garden: A Novel | 
so-soI think my problem is that every time I pick up a book by Byatt I want it to be another Possession and of course it never is. #24in2024
pick#12Booksof2022 @Andrew65 November
Bit of a slower month!AS BYatt is a genius.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4994362906
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5090097864
pickI read this book exactly at the right time and loved it. It is about one of those periods of life when one is on the cusp of change, for better or worse. One of those times that end up looming large in one's memory. I had a summer similar to Frederica's when I was 18. This summer I was getting to know my baby daughter.
That said, as it is a Byatt, it is not an easy book and is full of literary, historical, geographical and cultural references.
With my reading buddy.
The virgin in the garden
Daughter of Smoke and bone
The ground beneath her feet
Given sugar, given salt
Pieces of a song
Dance dance dance
#spinepoetry #riotgrams
I ordered this copy used and when it arrived I was dismayed to find that it is tinged brown- the cover, the pages, everything. It is still readable but I need to get over being sad every time I pull it off my shelves. #gardentitle #aprilbookshowers
Reading in the coziest nook in the PNW.
bailedThis one unfortunately is not doing it for me at all. 140 pages in and for my own sanity I've had to pull the trigger! It's not a good sign when you'd prefer to do anything else than read😑
This is my first time to try anything by A.S. Byatt, but anything kicking off at the start of the Elizabethan age is right up my alley😊
This is my first time to try anything by A.S. Byatt, but anything kicking off at the start of the Elizabethan age is right up my alley😊
