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These in-depth, thought-provoking, and often funny posts are the brainchild of The Book Barn's very own Glenn. He never fails to make a great recommendation, useful warning or entertaining suggestion!

Apr 23

#185: THE LADY HAS HER SAY.

#185: THE LADY HAS HER SAY. Sailing now well past its twentieth anniversary, Carol Ann Duffy’s collection The World’s Wife (Faber, 1999)...

Apr 6

#184: PERSUASION.

#184. PERSUASION. Flora Poste, the supremely confident heroine of Cold Comfort Farm (who resembles no one so much as Jane Austen’s Emma...

Mar 26

#183: BEYOND COMPARING.

#183. BEYOND COMPARING. Comparisons are odious, John Lydgate suggested long ago, and engenderers of hatred. Here surely is the great...