{"id":3528,"date":"2013-02-04T10:18:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2020-01-04T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T14:24:13","slug":"come-join-my-dh-lawrence-group-on-goodreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/come-join-my-dh-lawrence-group-on-goodreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Come join my DH Lawrence group on Goodreads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"461px-D_H_Lawrence_passport_photograph\"<\/a>Every once in a while I get interested enough in a writer that I decide to read “everything” he or she has written.<\/p>\n

(No literally everything, perhaps, but a lot!)<\/p>\n

This started in college, when I discovered that the college library often had volumes of letters or collected essays written by novelists that I was studying. I remember reading a collection of letters by Dostoyevski over one Christmas break, and a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf. It gave me a sense of connectedness with the novelists — with the human beings behind the novels.<\/p>\n

More recently, after enjoying Scoop<\/em> by Evelyn Waugh, I went on to read several more of his novels, and then Bright Young People<\/em> by JD Taylor (a history of Waugh’s contemporaries) and Fathers and Sons<\/em> by Alexander Waugh, Evelyn’s grandson.<\/p>\n

Now I’m being drawn in the same way to DH Lawrence. I’ve recently re-read Sons and Lovers<\/em> and Lady Chatterley’s Lover<\/em>, and now I’m reading his bio by John Worthen, DH Lawrence, The Life of an Outsider<\/em>, which is excellent. And I’ve picked up several other books by Lawrence for my TBR pile, with more to go; I understand his travel writing is also very good.<\/p>\n

Which leads me to Goodreads: I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to talk about Lawrence to other people who are reading him?<\/p>\n

So I created the group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please feel free to join! I’ve posted a bit already from Worthen’s biography, and will post some more as I dig into more books by and about Lawrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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