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About meI teach 16th and 17th British literature, particularly drama. I read a lot of fiction--historical novels set in many places and time periods, contemporary British fiction, classics, and more. Fiction keeps me sane in the midst of reading stacks of freshman essays!

I have started to write a historical novel, something I've wanted to do for a long, long time.

Currently Reading:

Best of 2013 (so far):
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Honour by Elif Shafar
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li

Best of 2012:
The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly by Mary Ladd Gavell
NW by Zadie Smith
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Imagined Lives by John Banville, Tracy Chevaliler, Julian Fellowes, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, Sarah Singleton, Joanna Trollope, and Minette Walters
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Five Bells by Gail Jones
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

Best of 2011:
There but for the by Ali Smith
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
Coventry by Helen Humphreys
The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit by Michael Zadoorian
The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black
Partitions by Amit Majmudar
Detroit Tales by Jim Ray Daniels
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durow
Elizabeth I: A Novel by Margaret George
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Wait for Me! Memoirs of Deborah Devonshire
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
Best Re-reads: The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Best of 2010:
Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
Miss Buncle's Book by D. E. Stevenson
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Solar by Ian McEwan

Best of 2009:
The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys
The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
The Autobiography of Henry VIII, with Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Stephen Galloway
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
Regeneration by Pat Barker
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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About my libraryMost of the books in my LT catalogue are for my leisure reading. I have barely begun to add scholarly books related to my research and teaching.

Groups75 Books Challenge for 2008, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, 75 Books Challenge for 2010, 75 Books Challenge for 2011, 75 Books Challenge for 2012, 75 Books Challenge for 2013, Anglophiles, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Audiobooks, Barbara Pym —show all groups

Favorite authorsPeter Ackroyd, Nadeem Aslam, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Pat Barker, Geraldine Brooks, E. L. Doctorow, Roddy Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, George Eliot, Sebastian Faulks, E. M. Forster, Elizabeth Gaskell, Stephen Greenblatt, Kate Grenville, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Edward Hirsch, Helen Humphreys, Henry James, Ha Jin, Ben Jonson, Galway Kinnell, Karleen Koen, Milan Kundera, Hari Kunzru, Jhumpa Lahiri, D. H. Lawrence, Chang-Rae Lee, Hilary Mantel, Christopher Marlowe, John Marston, Valerie Martin, Ian McEwan, Thomas Middleton, Lorrie Moore, Jude Morgan, Maggie O'Farrell, Barbara Pym, Michèle Roberts, Salman Rushdie, Simon Schama, Rachel Seiffert, Vikram Seth, William Shakespeare, Joan Silber, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Muriel Spark, David Starkey, D. E. Stevenson, Tom Stoppard, Elizabeth Taylor, Rose Tremain, Anthony Trollope, John Webster, Alison Weir, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, August Wilson, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

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Real nameDeborah

LocationChambersburg, PA

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URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/Cariola (profile)
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Member sinceJun 17, 2007

Currently readingThe Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan
Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War by Adam Nicolson

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Cariola rated, added:
Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War by Adam Nicolson

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The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann

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The Birth House: A Novel (P.S.) by Ami McKay

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From Dissertation to Book (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by William Germano

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Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd by Janet Arnold

I'm very excited about meeting you in Philadelphia in a few days!

I've been very busy at work and haven't had time to check the thread regarding what is planned. I was able to obtain tickets for Friday night at the Barnes anniversary party.

Looking forward,

Linda

posted by Whisper1 at 9:15 pm (EST) on May 15, 2013

Thanks fr the compliment on the Hero's Walk reivew - I consider that very high praise. I am sorry to hear you didn't think as much of the other Badami books. I'm on the lookout for some now to see what I think.

posted by blackdogbooks at 5:18 pm (EST) on May 11, 2013

Deborah -- The Optimist's Daughter arrived yesterday. Again thank-you. I look forward to reading it as soon as the semester's over. -- Jane

posted by janeajones at 4:45 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2013

Thanks or the Hitchens review. I keep picking that up but not buying it.

posted by blackdogbooks at 3:34 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2013

Great reviews the Li book. I love these kinds of books/stories. I'm looking out for that title and author now. Made e think of The Woman from Shanghai, a non-fiction that was published as fiction. Very hard to read but rewarding because of the author.

posted by blackdogbooks at 5:24 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2013

Cariola, I've been following you for the last five years or so, mostly through the 75'er threads. But this year, I am trying to be more economical with my internet time, and I'm really more interested in the reviews and books than the more social elements of the 75'er groups. I found I spent much to much time reading all of the comments on endless threads. I hope to write a lot more this year and spend less time doing other things that seem to suck my time away. But you are a thoughtful reader and reviewer, even if I don't always agree with you - though, that is the point, I think. You, along with a few others and a couple of good lists, have greatly expanded my reading life, and, hopefully, my writing life.

posted by blackdogbooks at 10:39 am (EST) on Dec 31, 2012

There is. Do this:

1. Click on the tab "your books".

See where it says "edit styles" (on one of the top bars)?
2. Click on the cog wheel (edit view styles/after A, B, C, D, E).
3. Make one of your options (from the drop down menu) "rating"
4. Click "save changes".

Go back to the tab "your books".
5. Click on "rating" once or twice. Use the option that brings the five star ratings to the top.

Hope that helps! :)

M.

posted by SqueakyChu at 2:39 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2012

Hi Deborah, Thanks for your comments about Gillespie and I. Actually, when I went to look at your review I remembered that I had read it in Belletrista some time ago. Your review was excellent and you managed to do what I couldn't figure out how to do which was to review the book w/o giving away too much. I hope all the people who tell me that I convinced them to read the book aren't disappointed.

I see some of my favorites among your favorites above, especially Gail Jones, Helen Humphreys and a few others including Cutting for Stone. The Cellist of Sarajevo, and In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. I hope you like Wolf Hall as much as I did.

Cheers,
Bonnie

posted by brenzi at 10:36 pm (EST) on Mar 13, 2012

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Oh, I love this one! Beautiful photo of a beautiful cat.

posted by Smiler69 at 7:48 pm (EST) on Nov 19, 2011

Deborah, if the touchstones are not working, just use a regular HTML link. That will always work (and it's easy). The only thing is that you won't have the books listed in the right-hand column.

When the touchstones don't work, I don't use any link for the book, but I do link the author if I can. From the author is a quick jump to the book. I can't stand to fool with touchstones too much. As Tim might say, it's fiddly. :)

Madeline

posted by SqueakyChu at 10:35 pm (EST) on Jun 30, 2011

Loved your review of All Passion Spent. Especially was touched and had similar feelings about your personal comments. KUDOS!

posted by saratoga99 at 5:18 pm (EST) on Dec 11, 2010

Thanks for the lovely comments in your review of Conceit, Cariola. Very much appreciated!
Cheers,
Mary Novik
www.marynovik.com

posted by MaryNovik at 5:04 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2010

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/waterhouse/

Be sure to check the video with Peter Trippi narrating the paintings, found on the right hand side of the site. It is fascinating!

posted by Whisper1 at 12:23 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2010

http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/home/

I thought of you when I visited this site.

posted by Whisper1 at 10:10 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2010

Refusing to ship internationally obviously touches a raw nerve for some moochers. I thought some of the comments following your post were extremely smug and self-righteous. You have an amazing record on Bookmooch; I was feeling a little smug at having 180 points (most of them earned from sending internationally!) but you beat me hollow.

I don't often post anything that might be seen as contentious as I hate the arguments that sometimes develop in online discussion groups, partly, I think, because the nuances of speech aren't always apparent in the written word - my written opinions and explanations often don't come out the way I want - but I was incensed by the way all the comments seized upon what I saw as a minor (and reasonable) point in your post.

Kerry

posted by CDVicarage at 1:57 pm (EST) on Feb 22, 2010

Hello Cariola
Have you looked into Phillip Burton's: YOU,MY BROTHER? A novel based on the lives of Edmund & William Shakespeare. P.B. was an early mentor to Richard Jenkins who went on to have a pretty fair career as an actor, etc.
pgt

posted by Porius at 2:05 pm (EST) on Jun 17, 2009

Hallo, don't wish to impose, but I notice that you're currently reading North and South. This morning's Guardian has an article by Jenny Uglow that might interest you...
All the best, Carolyn

posted by citizenkelly at 7:36 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2008

We have some wonderful historical novels in common, and I enjoy Jude Morgan's books as well. (He's written many other historicals as T.R. Wilson, if you're not familiar with his earlier work.)
If you decide to take a look at my historical fiction guide, I hope you enjoy it!

posted by ariadne02 at 11:40 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2007