Slaves of Golconda

Sorry this is so late. Life just kept getting in the way.   It will tell you something about me that the Balzac I know best is his stor...

Now that the holidays are behind us, let's have a general discussion thread for Eugenie Grandet.

Many years ago, during my French decadent period, I read The Girl With the Golden Eyes , The Unknown Masterpiece , and Père Goriot . I gene...

Honoré de Balzac begins this 1833 novel with a detailed description of a melancholy street in the town of Saumur: There is, perhaps, in th...

I should admit before writing about Honoré de Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet that this is my second Balzac novel, and I didn’t get along with my ...

Using the hashtag # IHaveNeverRead , Penguin UK recently urged people on Twitter to "confess" their "shocking literary shor...

Our next book will be Honoré de Balzac's Eugénie Grandet . Let's plan to begin the discussion April 1st, before everyone gets busy w...

Here's something else to consider. We seem to have fallen out of the habit of discussing the books in the forum . Do we want to revive t...

Susan asked me to propose some titles for the next Slaves read-a-long, and I’m happy to oblige. I chose books I haven...

Well, that was quite a journey. This 1959 novel by Barbara Comyns starts off seeming like one kind of book, but as it goes on the story ge...

"She can't do that, can she?" I asked myself when I reached the last page of Barbara Comyns' 1959 novel  The Vet's Dau...

Barbara Comyns’s strange little book The Vet’s Daughter (1959) is narrated by Alice Rowlands, a seventeen-year-old girl...