Belle Cora
Even though I am supposed to be hard at work on my own novel, I have immersed myself in Belle Cora by Philip Margulies. It is the memoir of Arabella Godwin, a woman who was born in the historic version of Gotham, New York City, and grows up to become the madam of San Francisco's finest bordello.
Thus far I am only a few hundred pages in, and though I could do without some of the more painful descriptions of the farm to which she is sent to live after the death of her mother from consumption and her father's death at his own hands, I am riveted by Arabella's character and her voice.
Of course I'm reading this on the heels of polishing off Ellen Meister's smashing followup novel, Dorothy Parker Drank Here. Being a devotee of Parker's vicious wit (in case the title of this blog didn't immediately leave that impression) I adored Meister's portryal of the sassiest woman writer of the century. Yes, I see that my taste in literature is all over the map, but if it wasn't, I wouldn't be an addict now would I.
Cheers.
Poison xx
Thus far I am only a few hundred pages in, and though I could do without some of the more painful descriptions of the farm to which she is sent to live after the death of her mother from consumption and her father's death at his own hands, I am riveted by Arabella's character and her voice.
Of course I'm reading this on the heels of polishing off Ellen Meister's smashing followup novel, Dorothy Parker Drank Here. Being a devotee of Parker's vicious wit (in case the title of this blog didn't immediately leave that impression) I adored Meister's portryal of the sassiest woman writer of the century. Yes, I see that my taste in literature is all over the map, but if it wasn't, I wouldn't be an addict now would I.
Cheers.
Poison xx
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