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The Invisible Host by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning – #NovNov Day 22
I was sent The Invisible Host (1930) by husband-and-wife authors Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning the other day, a review copy from Dean Street Press. It isn’t actually released until 6 December, but I...
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I’d Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel – #NovNov Day #23
I went to my reliable books-about-reading shelf for today’s book – well, it’s not so much a shelf as the worktop in my kitchen, because readers in small flats have to use every spare inch of space for...
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Three To See The King by Magnus Mills – #NovNov Day 24
I live in a house built entirely from tin, with four tin walls, a roof of tin, a chimney and door. Entirely from tin. My house has no windows because there’s nothing to see. Oh, there are shutters that...
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Love by Angela Carter – #NovNov Day 25
It is very brave to call your novella something so broad and essential as Love – as Angela Carter did in this book from 1971 – because it necessarily seems to give a grand universality to something...
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Tea or Books?: Any questions?
Rachel and I are recording episode 100 of Tea or Books? soon and, like episode 50, it’s going to be a special Q&A. So we’d love to hear your questions – and many thanks to those who’ve already...
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Finishing off #NovellasInNovember #NovNov
I went a bit quiet on here, but I *did* continue reading a novella a day, and I have now completed my Novellas in November challenge! Here are the final five days and what I read – except where I am...
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Tea or Books? #100: Q&A Special
https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Tea-or-Books-episode-100.mp3 For our special hundredth episode, Rachel and I are doing a question and answer. Thanks so much to everybody who...
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Look, yes, I’ve been buying books
It’s time for another haul post. But this teetering pile isn’t all from one trip – it’s from various different bookshops I’ve been to over the past month or two. That makes it ok, right?? Let’s go from...
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A couple of recent audiobooks
I go back and forth with my Audible subscription. I’m currently back in – and have discovered the Audible Plus catalogue, where you can download free audiobooks that have been added to that collection....
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The Beatles: Get Back
I was offered a review copy of The Beatles: Get Back to accompany the TV documentary about them. I absolutely don’t like The Beatles, but my brother Colin is a big fan… so I got it sent to him instead....
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What I Read At Christmas
Happy Christmas! I hope you had a lovely time – hopefully better than last year. I went to my parents’ house, as did my brother, so it felt like a lovely family Christmas. Very relaxed, if you don’t...
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Enbury Heath by Stella Gibbons
I usually get at least a few books for Christmas, and I like to start one of them immediately – there is something lovely about starting a brand new book on Christmas Day. Particularly if it is as...
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Top Books of 2021
I always wait until New Year’s Eve to compile my best reads of the year, because you never know when something brilliant will sneak in, do you? As it happens, this year has had lots of Very Good...
View Article2021: Some Reading Stats
I’ve posted my Top Books of 2021, and now it’s time to turn my attention to some reading stats – the sort of blog post that so many of us love reading. And as I get older, increasingly a test of...
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The Small Room by May Sarton
When I bought The Small Room (1961), it was because I thought it might be about a house. I’m a simple man: I love books about houses, particularly if this would end up being about a hitherto...
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Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm
When I was two essays into this collection, published in 2013 but collecting pieces from across several decades before, I was certain it would be one of my best books of 2021. The first two essays are...
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Tea or Books? #101: Rachel explores Simon’s shelves
Rachel takes a look at Simon’s bookshelves – will she take any books away with her?? https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/tea-books-101.mp3 Way back in episode 70, I was in Rachel’s...
View ArticleSome more recent reads
Just clearing some books from my pile to be reviewed – and while the blog post is called ‘some more recent reads’, let’s be SUPER lax with what we mean by ‘recent’. A few of these have been waiting for...
View ArticleBookTube Spin #5: My List
You may well know Rick’s BookTube Spin – pick 20 books, he gives us a number and we have a couple of months to read. Think the Classics Spin but not necessarily classics, and with the addition of...
View ArticleBookTube Spin #5: What Will I Be Reading?
I made my list, I checked it twice – and Rick has done the spin. As you’ll have seen in that video, there are two numbers – the second for those who really want to go for it. I haven’t decided yet, but...
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