Tea or Books? #81: Style vs Plot and Living vs Loving by Henry Green

Henry Green, style over substance, and some listener questions – here’s episode 81! In the first half of this episode, we discuss style vs substance – or, to put it another way, writing style vs the plot of the novel.

Henry Green, style over substance, and some listener questions – here’s episode 81!

In the first half of this episode, we discuss style vs substance – or, to put it another way, writing style vs the plot of the novel. Which is more important to us? In the second half, we compare two novels by Henry Green – Loving and Living. One of us finished the book. Won’t say which one.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Her Son’s Wife by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

A Bite of the Apple by Lennie Goodings

Margaret Atwood

Ethel Wilson

Stephen Leacock

My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes

Bad Girl by Vena Delmar

The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair

Chatterton Square by E.H. Young

Jack by Marilynne Robinson

Hilary Mantel

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Grief is a Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

Lanny by Max Porter

Elizabeth Bowen

Virginia Woolf

George Orwell

Chess by Stefan Zweig

Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

Business as Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford

Dorothy Whipple

Mary Webb

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt

Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Thornyhold by Mary Stewart

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

The Heir by Vita Sackville-West

The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West

The Death of Noble Godavary by Vita Sackville-West

Grand Canyon by Vita Sackville-West

Caught by Henry Green

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Blindness by Henry Green

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

The Years by Virginia Woolf

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Ulysses by James Joyce

Party Going by Henry Green

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

John Braine

Of Love and Hunger by Julian McLaren-Ross

Rosamond Lehmann

Corduroy by Adrian Bell

A Suffolk Harvest by Adrian Bell