Vulpes Libris

A collective of bibliophiles talking about books. Book Fox (vulpes libris): small bibliovorous mammal of overactive imagination and uncommonly large bookshop expenses. Habitat: anywhere the rustle of pages can be heard.

Racked with pain, but not all the time

If you enjoy reading about Victorian healthcare and alarming cures, this is a novel for you. If you are a Henry Jamesian completist, and have been looking for a good, … Continue reading

October 23, 2012 · 6 Comments

Coming Up This Week

After a week spent celebrating our fifth anniversary, we turn a little somber this week for some unknown reason(too much cake?). In fact, in our planning session(which involves the Foxes … Continue reading

October 21, 2012 · 4 Comments

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

For an orphan girl growing up amid the poverty and criminality of Victorian London’s notorious Lant Street, Susan Trinder has led a remarkably sheltered life, kept safe and protected by … Continue reading

May 5, 2011 · 10 Comments

Author, Author by David Lodge

Review by Audrey Chaix. I’d known about David Lodge’s Author, Author for a long time. I’d spotted it at my local library, in between all the David Lodge novels that … Continue reading

October 27, 2009 · 4 Comments

Coming Up on Vulpes Libris

The leaves are changing, pumpkins are perched on porches and the nights are chilly; that can only mean one thing-it’s fall in Fox Land! And this week it’s Hallowe’en. So … Continue reading

October 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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  • (The header image is from Aesop's Fables, illustrated by Francis Barlow (1666), and appears courtesy of the Digital and Multimedia Center at the Michigan State University Libraries.)
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