Susan hill autobiography definition
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2 Autobiographical Writing and the First World War
Schaff, Barbara. "2 Autobiographical Writing and the First World War". Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War, edited by Ralf Schneider and Jane Potter, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 65-86. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422467-003
Schaff, B. (2021). 2 Autobiographical Writing and the First World War. In R. Schneider & J. Potter (Ed.), Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (pp. 65-86). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422467-003
Schaff, B. 2021. 2 Autobiographical Writing and the First World War. In: Schneider, R. and Potter, J. ed. Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 65-86. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422467-003
Schaff, Barbara. "2 Autobiographical Writing and the First World War" In Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War edited by Ralf Schn
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The Woman in Black, utbildning Dreams, and Absolutely & Forever (#NovNov23)
I’ve been slow off the mark this year, mostly because instead of reading a sensible one or two novellas at a time, I’ve had 10 or 15 on the go. It might mean I’ll read more overall, but from day to day it feels like crawling through loads of books, never to finish any. Except inom did finally finish these three, all of which were great reads. After my thoughts on each, I’ll ponder this week’s prompt, “What Is a Novella?”
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (1983)
This was a reread for me and our November book club book, as well as part of my casual project to read books from my birth year. I’ve generally been underwhelmed by Hill’s ghost stories, but inom found this spookier than remembered and enjoyed spotting the nods to Victorian literature and to classic ghost story tropes. (Best of all, because it was so short, everyone actually read the book and came to the discussion. All 12 group members.
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Read 28/01/2017-30/01/2017
Rating: 3 stars
My husband bought me this memoir about reading for Christmas. I haven’t yet read any of Susan Hill’s novels, so I had no expectations. At the start of the book, Hill is looking for a book on her many bookshelves. As she tracks it down, she discovers that she has possibly 200 books that she hasn’t read. She also rediscovers books that she’d like to re-read. She decides to spend a year not buying new books and repossessing the books she already owns.
I own a lot of books, but not as many as Hill. I’m going to guess that 10% of the books I own are as yet unread. I used to be good at noting down which books I hadn’t read, but since my husband bought me a Kindle, buying books has become too easy. Keeping track of them doesn’t always happen. When I did an overdue audit of unread books in October last year and told my husband how many there were, I think it inspired this purchase. My list of books to