2015: The Year of Reading Women discussion

Discussion and group reads for Kay Boyle.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Boyle

After being blown away a month ago by Three Short Novels, I plan to immerse myself much more deeply in Boyle's work in 2015.

I have Plagued by the Nightingale, Year Before Last, and My Next Bride - all in lovely Virago editions.

My goal is to read all of them, spaced out, sometime in 2015. I'll probably tackle these three chronologically by publication date, but I'm also open to whatever if anyone's interested!

Anyone keen on joining me? If you've not read her before, Boyle is something else, I promise.

Count me in!

How did I know you would be interested? :)

You'll love Boyle.

Which ones of hers do you have?

None yet, but I'm sure that won't be the case for long. :)

yes - I have her 50 stories and another short one of her stories I plan to get to this year

Let me know which novels you purloin, Kris, and we will figure out which to read first!

Just ordered the three you listed above. I may try to fit in Three Short Novels this week or next week, just to catch up with you!

if there's anything this group is teaching me so far, it's that I tend to be very horrible with sticking to scheduled reading!

when putting a stack of books recently purchased on my shelves earlier, I started Boyle's Plagued by the Nightingale.

if anyone's up for a read of this, should you have a copy handy, feel free to join in. it's a short book, less than 200 pages... but her prose can be dense and a bit laborious at times, so I imagine a good, slow reading pace - with a goal to complete it within a week or so? - would be ideal for a book like this.

sorry for jumping the Boyle gun here, but sometimes waiting around and/or trying to schedule things takes the pleasurable spontaneity out of reading... especially thumbing around books to select what one wants to read next. one can never be sure what book will draw one in at any given moment in time, I suppose!