Showing posts with label Monica Stirling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monica Stirling. Show all posts
Friday, December 10, 2021

"[S]he was behaving towards him as a man does to a mistress": MONICA STIRLING, Some Darling Folly (1955) & Adventurers Please Abstain (1952)

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"There's never anything for me to be obstinate about where my husband's concerned."   She seemed to expect Remy to share h...
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Friday, November 12, 2021

"My postwar face": MONICA STIRLING, Ladies with a Unicorn (1953)

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"And then I was in love with Franchot Tone. I wrote to him and he sent me a signed photograph. Of course, I must say I'd enclosed a...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

"No memories are clearer ... than those one has invented": MONICA STIRLING, The Sniper in the Heart (1960)

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Presently I said, "Now what do we do?" As I did so a memory stirred in me: a black-overalled school-girl, I was arguing with other...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

“The whole apartment reeked of approaching drama”: MONICA STIRLING, Lovers Aren’t Company (1949)

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[For those of you not on Twitter, apologies for the radio silence the past couple of weeks. We were in New York and DC having a blast and fo...
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Friday, October 1, 2021

"We all have our troubles": MONICA STIRLING, Journeys We Shall Never Make (1957)

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I won’t keep doing a blow-by-blow of all my recent Monica Stirling reading, but if you click the tag at the bottom of this post, you can see...
Friday, September 17, 2021

“The plants were silent”: MONICA STIRLING, The Summer of a Dormouse (1967)

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The US cover is bland, but... The driver got out of the taxi and opened the door for his passengers. There were two of them, an elegant dark...