Hi, I’m Carolyn (stats: early 30s, Canadian, married to a fellow booklover, haunted by a black cat named Edgar) and these are a few of my favourite things:
- flowers & gardens
- purple
- the 18th century
- old fashioned romance & adventure
- lyrical, thoughtful writing
- literature & history (I studied both in university)
- female authors: Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, A.S. Byatt, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Rosamond Lehmann, Helen Humphreys, Elizabeth von Arnim…
- male authors: Marcel Proust, E.M. Forster, Anthony Trollope
- poetry & solitude
- feminism
- slow thoughtful reading for myself
- any mention of flowers in books
- Britain & France
- chamomile lemon tea
Hello Carolyn
I love your website! I thought you might like to know that Persephone have chosen Moffat to launch their reissue of Miss Buncle Married on Sat April 16 – it will be the inaugural Moffat Book Event, a new interest group in the town of which I am chairman. Do let me know if you have any good ideas of how the day should go. We have invited a young Glasgow-based stylist who specializes in vintage clothing, Lynn McCrossan to come – she has just published A Girl’s Guide to Vintage. Maybe we should have a 1934-style meal, period flower arrangements, cocktails…? The imagination boggles.
Dear Elizabeth
I came across this by chance. I knew Persephone were having an event in Moffat but have been unable to find any details about it. Please could you let me know what will be happening or any information that is available. I am a great DE Stevenson fan
Many thanks
Sally
Hi Sally
We now have a website http://www.moffatbookevents.com where you will find details of the inaugural Moffat Book Event on Sat April 16 at the Moffat House hotel, which includes the champagne launch by Persephone of their re-issue of Miss Buncle Married (the sequel to Miss Buncle’s Book). Members of D E’s family will participate, as well as local and other Scottish authors; the day goes on with a presentation by style guru Lynn McCrossan on vintage clothing, including what to wear for weddings, a 1930′s style tea party and in the evening a preview of Abi Roberts’s new show for the Edinburgh Fringe on the theme of weddings days: Abi Roberts Takes You Up the Aisle – see http://www.moffatbookevents.com or email info@moffatbookevents.co.uk for tickets prices, times etc
Hi Sally,
Sorry, it’s http://www.moffatbookevents.co.uk not .com. It went live just before Christmas. I have just tried to access it via Google without success so will investigate and get back to you. The ad for the event is in the Dumfries & Galloway Arts brochure for Jan-June 2011
The Moffat Book Events website does work! Try it http://www.moffatbookevents.co.uk for details of the DES book launch on April 16
Thanks very much Elizabeth. It sounds fantastic and I would really love to be there but not sure I shall be able to manage it.
Sally
Hi Carolyn! I found your blog listed on Tales from the Reading Room and thought I’d check it out. I’m putting it in my Reader. I also studied History in University, love lilacs (my mom had a forest of them planted on the side of our house when I was growing up), and enjoy exploring time periods in books. I’m looking forward to reading your posts!
What a delightful blog! Have only found it this morning but I am sure I will be looking in regularly from now on, as I do with Danielle’s and Darlene’s and others who write mainly about books (and food, and flowers …)
I have, finally! just begun The Enchanted April (my 82 year old mother loved it). I have travelled in Italy & England so can imagine the setting. I was intrigued by your title Book Snob and find any sites on books to be of interest. I work in the Publishing Industry. I deal with books all day yet can’t resist a book store or blog on books! I think, based on what little I have read of you that you would find Lauren Winner’s book ‘Girl Meets God’ an interesting read.
Hi, Carolyn,
The photo you posted that illustrated the kind of book you like to read actually reminded me of the Swedish painter, Karl Larsen. I wonder if you know his work. Of course, being a Janeite, it also reminded me of Austen’s novels.
Pamela Jane
http://www.austencats.com