false 91519 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 91519 11 1794016 book 1985 Still Life (The Frederica Quartet, #2) total:504|5:140|4:176|3:153|2:33|1:2| 504 1931 700 30 1169504 3.79 16747 2103 55336998 1857158 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.84 489 1985 5 0 false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 21:21:26 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 17:48:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 69535742 2241725 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 3 0 false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 02:24:09 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 20:55:59 -0700 2009 The Virgin in the Garden A Novel is all downhill. After reading Still Life, I'm unfortunately inclined to agree.

The narration is as pretentious as ever. Before it was easier to ignore or completely disregard referenc...more...]]> 53881903 1652278 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 5 0 true Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 19:47:28 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 03:10:05 -0700 2009
It continues the story centered on the Potter family in the 1950ies. Stephanie has married the clergyman, D...more...]]> 9460601 225706 1461134 0099479915 9780099479918 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183843837m/1461134.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183843837s/1461134.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1461134.Still_Life 3.67 9 doomed to be intelligent", plunges into Cambridge Universty life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister Stephanie has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. Alexander Wedderburn, now in London, struggles to write a play about Van Gogh, whose art and tragic life give the novel its central Leitmotiv. In this sequel to The Virgin in the Garden, A.S Byatt illuminates the inevitable conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providing a subtle yet incisive observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s.]]> 1985 0 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 23 13:52:17 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 23 13:59:00 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3001971 186838 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 4 0 false Thu Jul 12 16:49:37 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 20 14:26:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 71421776 957149 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 3 0 false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 09:37:32 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 05:30:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 81098863 2627373 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 3 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 15 11:14:17 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 15 11:23:07 -0800 2009 51359172 157759 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 5 0 false Tue Apr 21 16:41:40 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 05:27:42 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 16:41:40 -0700 2009
I have to say, I'm still befuddled by people who don't like to read or think about books about people who like to read books and think.

Watch for Byatt's own intrusions to remark on her craft, Alexander Wedderburn's meditations on the phrase 'Still Life,' Frederica a...more...]]> 31771454 274923 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 3 1 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 18:38:27 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 18:43:06 -0700 2008 Possession so delightful and full of movement, when so many of Byatt's other books are depressing, disturbing, and slow? I have not quite finished this yet, but I keep wondering - when does something happen? When do I get to care about the characters?

Still, it's not entirely wit...more...]]> 78929582 2970093 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 4 0 false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:38:20 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 06 13:28:44 -0800 2009 75185912 2857066 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 5 0 false Tue Oct 20 18:17:59 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 18:19:26 -0700 2009 34326 3501 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 5 0 false Sun Feb 11 13:48:08 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 12 11:22:31 -0800 2007

From the Publisher
From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family--and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticit...more...]]> 59165584 1804950 1401327 0020178557 9780020178552 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1401327.Still_Life 3.25 4 doomed to be intelligent", plunges into Cambridge Universty life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister Stephanie has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. Alexander Wedderburn, now in London, struggles to write a play about Van Gogh, whose art and tragic life give the novel its central Leitmotiv. In this sequel to The Virgin in the Garden, A.S Byatt illuminates the inevitable conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providing a subtle yet incisive observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s.]]> 1985 0 0 false Wed Jun 10 11:26:08 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:26:08 -0700 2009 68914802 17181 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 3 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 22:32:17 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 10:15:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 54517185 2073597 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 4 0 false Thu Apr 30 15:27:55 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 15:28:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 63993910 2535939 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Sat Jul 18 11:19:48 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 11:22:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 37907014 1672482 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 3 0 false Sun Nov 16 18:43:07 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 20:17:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 17597555 196599 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 4 0 false Mon Apr 14 16:14:50 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 09:46:20 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 16:14:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5443920 314634 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 2 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 15:20:19 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 19:14:13 -0700 2007 The Virgin in the Garden more. Perhaps I'll revisit this review after Babel Tower. Currently I'm a bit annoyed with Byatt's portrayals of motherhood. She should have resisted the urge to kill off the good ones, but instead she perpetuates the curse: if a heroine has a co...more...]]> 7661149 27539 91519 0684835037 9780684835037 28 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91519.Still_Life 3.83 504 1985 5 0 false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Oct 13 07:40:43 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 07:44:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=91519