tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post8306080252397052450..comments2024-03-25T22:59:30.053+00:00Comments on Desperate Reader: Carmen CallilDesperate Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-3374665308881014752022-11-18T19:14:51.389+00:002022-11-18T19:14:51.389+00:00You are right, those Backlisted pods with Carmen C...You are right, those Backlisted pods with Carmen Callil are marvellous. She is so positive and tells some lovely stories. Virago Modern Classics changed my reading too, as I found they published the writers I had first come across on my grandmother’s shelves. Whoever was running Barnes Library in London in 1984 had got an impressive number of green spines onto the shelves, and I read them endlessly on the long bus journeys to work in Bloomsbury. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-9455100483962470412022-11-05T01:21:44.276+00:002022-11-05T01:21:44.276+00:00This s a lovely tribute and makes me want to dig u...This s a lovely tribute and makes me want to dig up some of my old Viragos!CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-59803890252641465642022-10-28T22:25:17.765+01:002022-10-28T22:25:17.765+01:00Like you, I was greatly saddened by the news of Ca...Like you, I was greatly saddened by the news of Carmen Callil's death. The discovery of Virago changed my reading life, my first being Angel by Elizabeth Taylor. I still look out for them whenever I visit secondhand bookshops!Deborah Vasshttps://www.deborahvass.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-73989099116502362092022-10-19T10:08:22.500+01:002022-10-19T10:08:22.500+01:00'versions of ourselves' - a perfect summat...'versions of ourselves' - a perfect summation of Carmen Callil's genius and gift to us all, women and men. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com