Ranking 14 books I’ve read recently
Thank you SO much for all your kind words and support recently. I’m not out of the woods yet, but I’m going to make a gradual return to book blogging. And I wanted to clear the decks on the books that...
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C is for Crompton
This is part of an ongoing series where I write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here. I’m going through the alphabet, and had a bit of a choice for C....
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Peas in a Podcast #12
Colin and I are back with another episode – this time, traffic laws, forks you hate, and all the other pressing issues of the day. https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Episode-12.mp3
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Apologies if you got an automated email about a new blog post on pancreatitis in dogs… it is a really weird hacking that I don’t understand. I’ve changed my password and hopefully it won’t happen...
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A House in the Country by Ruth Adam
It’s always exciting when there’s a new set of Furrowed Middlebrow titles from Dean Street Press, and I always want to read all of them. I got a couple as review copies, and went straight to A House in...
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The Nutmeg Tree by Margery Sharp
Gosh, I love Margery Sharp. The more I read by her, the more I think she is one of the great underrated novelists of the twentieth century. I first read her fifteen or sixteen years ago, buying The...
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Tea or Books? #87: Biographies vs Novels about Real People and Emma by Jane...
Jane Austen, Jane and Mary Findlater, and – it’s episode 87! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/tea-or-books-87.mp3 We recorded this episode a little while ago and I have been...
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My Phantom Husband by Marie Darrieussecq
A lot of the books I’m reading this year are ones I bought in 2011 – and I’m remembering that I bought a lot of books that year, because I only bought 24 in 2010 and I was making up for last time. One...
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D is for Delafield
This is part of an ongoing series where I write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here. If you were guessing which author I’d be using for D in this series,...
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Appointment in Arezzo by Alan Taylor
I love Muriel Spark’s strange, unpredictable, funny novels – and she seems like a fascinating person, too. So I was intrigued by Alan Taylor’s Appointment in Arezzo (2017) and delighted when my friend...
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A Couple of Arnold Bennetts
I’ve recently read two books by Arnold Bennett about being an author, both published in 1903 – one fiction and one non-fiction. He’s one of those authors who was ubiquitous during his lifetime, and now...
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The Overhaul #6
It’s The Overhaul! The latest in a series where I look back on previous book shopping trips and see what I’ve read, what I’ve got rid of, and what is embarrassing me by the length of time it’s been on...
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
My love for Janet Malcolm continues apace. I’ve been buying up her books but initially hadn’t bothered with The Silent Woman (1993) because I’m not especially interested in Sylvia Plath. Then somebody...
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British Library Women Writers #4: Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay
I intend to write about each of the British Library Women Writers titles as they come out, though I’m already a bit behind because the brilliant Father by Elizabeth von Arnim is also out now! I knew,...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
2020 just keeps going, doesn’t it? What a long, long year. I hope you have some good plans this weekend, and that they’re able to go ahead. I’ll be meeting up with my ‘bubble’ (my brother) so I’ll get...
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E is for Essex
This is part of an ongoing series where I write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here. There are going to be a handful of letters in this series that...
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Three mini reviews
I have a whole pile of books I’ve read recently, but quite a lot of them are ones I don’t feel inspired to write whole posts about. Not least because my memory for what happens in books seems to be...
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Tea or Books? #88: Blurbs or No Blurbs, and The Remains of the Day vs Never...
Blurbs and Kazuo Ishiguro – welcome to episode 88! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/tea-or-books-episode-88.mp3 In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I talk about whether...
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Stuck in a Book’s Weekend Miscellany
I hope you have lovely, socially distanced plans for this weekend – maybe the last of our sunny weather here in the UK? Well, there’s already an autumnal snap in the air (and a hole in my roof, leaking...
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Mrs Panopoulis by Jon Godden
Earlier in the year, I read and really loved the odd, cold, psychologically fascinating novel Told in Winter by Jon Godden (sister of the more famous Rumer). So I was keen to try more of her things,...
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