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Rolling in the Dew by Ethel Mannin (Novella a Day in May #30)
If you read about middlebrow women writers of the interwar years, you’ll doubtless have come across Ethel Mannin’s name. I don’t know if she had one book that was particularly well-known, but she was...
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Anne Frank’s Diary: the graphic adaptation (Novella a Day in May #31)
I made it! 31 days, and 31 books – admittedly some of them played fast and loose with the definition of ‘novella’, not least this final one. But what a fun time it has been, and has brought out some...
View ArticleJubilee: A book for every year of the Queen’s reign
Happy jubilee weekend to those who are celebrating! I love the Queen and I am certainly celebrating. And what more fitting way for me to celebrate than to pick a book I love for every year of her...
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Peas in a Podcast #15 – Yes, We Recorded This A Year Ago
Twins! Podcasting! In June 2021! Yes, it has taken me a whole year to get around to editing this episode. That’s why Colin is banging on about football. But what even is time – enjoy episode 15 of a...
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Project 24: Books 7, 8, 9
I have been buying some of my allotted 24 books for Project 24, but didn’t want to interrupt Novella a Day in May with the spoils – but I am now up to nine books. That only takes me halfway through...
View ArticleA whole lot of audiobooks
I continue to listen to lots of audiobooks, many of them from the Audible Plus free catalogue, and here is a round up of some recent listens… I’ve marked them with an asterisk if they’re in the free...
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Tea or Books? #105: Big Families vs Small Families and Animal Farm vs...
George Orwell and families – welcome to episode 105! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/tea-or-books-105.mp3 Rachel is busy this month, so I put a shout-out on our Patreon page to...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
A very happy weekend to you! Hope you are spending it well, and not panicking about the fact that we are somehow almost halfway through the year even though I’m pretty sure it only just began? Quell...
View ArticleSong for a Sunday
Haven’t done one of these for a while, but I’ve recently had ‘Death With Dignity’ by Sufjan Stevens on repeat, and thought I’d share it with you. Enjoy…
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Embers by Sándor Márai
I picked up Embers (1942) by Sándor Márai in a London bookshop a little while before the pandemic, drawn by the striking cover design and intrigued by the premise. Not many books are primarily about...
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Suddenly, A Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret
I think I got sent Suddenly, a Knock on the Door (2010) as a review copy in 2012, when it was translated from Hebrew into English – by Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston and Nathan Englander. It’s a...
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Project 24: Books 10 and 11
On Monday I had the day off, so I decided to go to Hidcote National Trust because I’m young and vibrant. It is a really beautiful garden and June seems like the perfect time to see it. After a wander,...
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Some films I’ve watched recently
I go through periods where I watch a lot of movies, and other periods where the idea of watching something for about two hours seems like a colossal amount of time. I could read half a book in that...
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Uneasy Money by P.G. Wodehouse
There are some authors I think of as ‘break glass in case of emergency’ authors. And I didn’t have a particular emergency the other day, only nothing I was picking up felt right. I had a few books on...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Somehow it’s apparently July? 2022 is rushing past as quickly as 2021 was SLOW. Reading continues apace, and I have sailed past my 100th book of the year – helped, as with last year, but the volume of...
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Tea or Books? #106: Book or Movie First, and The Feast vs Grand Canyon
Margaret Kennedy, Vita Sackville-West, and film adaptations – welcome to episode 106! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/tea-or-books-106.mp3 In the first half of this episode,...
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Five recent reads
I’m going to take a little break from blogging, as the next couple of weeks are quite hectic – but before I go, here are five books I’ve read recently (or, in one case, not that recently) to leave you...
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The Optimist by E.M. Delafield
E.M. Delafield is right up there with my favourite authors, but there are still some of her books on my shelves that I’ve had for the best part of 20 years. I recently took down The Optimist (1922),...
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Golden States by Michael Cunningham
You won’t find much mention of Golden States (1984) by Michael Cunningham online – or even in the next novels that were published, which silently erased his debut novel. In an interesting and deep...
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Two books about heatwaves
During the recent heat wave in the UK (and elsewhere, but I experienced it in the UK) I decided to get two relevant novels off my shelves – Penelope Lively’s Heat Wave and Maggie O’Farrell’s...
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