I’ve failed this month. I’ve probably failed at more important things than reading the Literary Wives book pick, Anita Shreve’s The Stars Are Fire (2017), but I always feel particularly melancholy when I don’t hit my reading goals.
My reading for the past two months has been dominated by academic journal articles and books about South Africa and Botswana. I’m planning a research trip to those countries in May 2019, and a midterm report is due in January to the grant funders, so my research partner and I are busy preparing for that.
That said, you don’t have to miss out on the Literary Wives discussion. Please visit the other bloggers’ sites and check out their posts on The Stars Are Fire.
Naomi of Consumed by Ink
Kay of What Me Read
Lynn of Smoke & Mirrors
Eva of The Paperback Princess
Also, you can participate in February 2019 when we read They Were Sisters (1945) by Dorothy Whipple, the female author about whom I wrote my master’s thesis.
The Bookshelf of Emily J. 
Darn! I was so anxious to see what you thought of this one, Emily! Darn work! Darn that academia!! 😁👍 Hopefully next time!
Ha ha! Yes, it can be grueling. I wish I had more time to just read for fun (which is what I used to think being a professor would mean). Then I became one and learned better.
Too bad, Emily, but I hope you can join us next time!
I hope so too! I’ll try to get to the book earlier this time.
Two months to go!
Oh but I’m excited to read what you will have to say about Dorothy Whipple in February! I’m on the opposite side of that spectrum – I’ve never read any of her work!
I think you are going to love Dorothy Whipple! I hope I can muster up something intelligent about her. Now I feel some pressure! 😉
The reading you’ve been doing sounds SO interesting! I hope it has been, anyway. 🙂
Now I’m *really* looking forward to February’s book, knowing you wrote your master’s thesis about her!
Some of it has been! And some of it has felt like WORK!