It’s Valentine’s Week on Vulpes Libris! We wanted to celebrate, but not in the usual way, so we gathered a collection of pieces looking at Love from unconventional angles. Plus we have an on the ground report from Book Fox Moira as she judges the entries in The Romantic Novel of the Year Award
Monday- Jackie finds Kathryn Harrison’s The Seal Wife strange and mysterious.
Tuesday- Kirsty reintroduces Bolshevik feminist – and romantic – Aleksandra Kollontai with her memoir Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman.
Wednesday- Sam is unsure exactly why Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart is the most romantic book he has read. But it is.
Thursday- Anne is captivated by the take-no-prisoners GLBT romantic hero of Lenore Black’s All’s Fair in Love and Advertising
Friday- Lisa thinks about the complicated relationships in her first Patrick Gale novel, A Sweet Obscurity
Saturday- Moira ruminates on the pros and cons of being asked to judge The Romantic Novel of the Year Award, in a piece tentatively entitled: “You made that up, … didn’t you?”
And, a bit more exciting news, Vulpes Libris is one of ten blogs invited by independent bookshop The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green, London, to take part in their new “Bloggers’ Book of the Month” – and Sputnik Sweetheart will be featuring as our choice for March.
Big Green Bookshop Blogger’s Book of the Month
Big Green Bookshop’s Simon says on their blog, “When deciding what to read next, book reviews on blogs are fast becoming a more useful resource than those found in most newspapers. As such, the Big Green Bookshop in cosmopolitan Wood Green has been in touch with some of the most high profile book bloggers out there and asked each of them to recommend a different book each month for our customers. We’ve set no guidelines for their book choices except that they choose a book that they really like. So it could be something old, something new, something borrowed or something blue…steady now.”
The Vulpes crew are chuffed to be part of this and are particularly pleased that this initiative is just about letting people know about great books whether old or new, fiction or non-fiction. We’re very excited about it, basically. We’ll be picking a favourite read every month and if you want to check out the other contributors or take a peek at a picture of the Bloggers Bookshelf in Wood Green – peek away here
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What a very exciting week this promises to be!
Can’t wait to read Moira’s!