It’s been another great week of seeing lots of reviews crop up across the blogosphere – thank you everyone for joining in. I haven’t read all the contributions yet, but will make sure to do so. And here is a round-up of the books covered – if I’ve missed yours, please do let me know. And there’s still a day and a half to go, of course, as I click ‘publish’.
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Words and Peace
Castle Barebane by Joan Aiken
She Reads Novels
The Malacia Tapestry by Brian Aldiss
Calmgrove
Alas For Her That Me Men by Mary Ann Ashe
Briefer Than Literal Statement
The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
Brona’s Books
Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
What Me Read
A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
A Little Local Murder by Robert Barnard
Bitter Tea and Mystery
Afternoon of a Good Woman by Nina Bawden
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
Staircase Wit
The Iron Coin by Jorge Luis Borges
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Beard’s Roman Women by Anthony Burgess
Gert Loveday’s Fun With Books
Two pieces by William Burroughs
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Mystery of the Emerald Buddha by Betty Cawanna
Staircase Wit
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
What Me Read
The Question of Max by Amanda Cross
Scones and Chaises Longues
Catch A Falling by Len Deighton
Bitter Tea and Mystery
Deus Irae by Philip K Dick and Roger Zelazny
Typings
The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
What Cathy Read Next
Bear by Marian Engel
Stuck in a Book
HeavenAli
Home to Roost by Andrew Garve
Bitter Tea and Mystery
Staircase Wit
Roots by Alex Haley
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Buried in Print
The Australian Legend
Tintin and the Picaros by Herge
Literary Potpourri
Another Death in Venice by Reginald Hill
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Winston’s Dad
Finding Time to Write
1streading’s Blog
Hilda’s Wedding by Elizabeth Jolley
Whispering Gums
Orsinian Tales by Ursula Le Guin
Entering the Enchanted Castle
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula Le Guin
[A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else]
Entering the Enchanted Castle
Pining for the West
In the Purely Pagan Sense by John Lehmann
Stuck in a Book
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
746Books
A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively
Relevant Obscurity
Laurie Welch on Instagram
Literary Potpourri
Agent in Place by Helen MacInnes
Annabookbel
The Golden Gate by Alistair MacLean
Literary Potpourri
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Words and Peace
Apalache by Paul Metcalf
Neglected Books
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
Typings
The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore
Stuck in a Book
HeavenAli
JacquiWine
The Voice of the Sea by Alberto Moravio
1streading’s Blog
Travels by Jan Morris
The Captive Reader
Julian Grenfell by Nicholas Mosley
Stuck in a Book
Short stories by Vladimir Nabokov
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
ANZ Lit Lovers
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Book Word
Bookish Beck
Expendable Mudge
The Plantagenet Prelude by Jean Plaidy
Lizzy’s Literary Life
Hopewell’s Library of Life
The Space Machine by Christopher Priest
1streading’s Blog
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Dolce Bellezza
It Concerns You Too by Herman Sachnowitz
Kinship of All Species
The Girls from the Five Great Valleys by Elizabeth Savage
Book Around the Corner
Lucinella by Lore Segal
746Books
The Omen by David Seltzer
Mr Kaggsy
Wilt by Tom Sharpe
Rattlebag and Rhubarb
A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon
Staircase Wit
The Takeover by Muriel Spark
The Takeover
Abel’s Island by William Steig
Becky’s Book Reviews
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
Rick MacDonnell
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
JacquiWine’s Journal
Reading and Watching the World
Stuck in a Book
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Becky’s Book Reviews
Letters from Father Christmas by JRR Tolkien
Becky’s Book Reviews
1876 by Gore Vidal
What Me Read
How Did I Get To Be Forty… and other atrocities by Judith Viorst
The Captive Reader
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
1streading’s Blog
Anji Hanzel
Meridian by Alice Walker
What Me Read
Reading Envy
Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones
Staircase Wit