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Project 24: Books 12, 13, 14
When I was in the Lake District recently, I paid a visit to a couple of bookshops. In fact, I made a day trip to visit one – Michael Moon’s Bookshop in Whitehaven. My goodness, what a wonderful place....
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Tea or Books? #107: Do We Care What Characters Read? and Two Stella Gibbons...
Books in books and Stella Gibbons – welcome to episode 107! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/tea-or-books-107.mp3 In the first half, we continue our ‘do we care…’ series with ‘do...
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Anne of Avonlea… isn’t very good?
Here’s a blog post that might get me in hot water – but I recently listened to the audiobook of Anne of Avonlea and, let me tell you, I felt let DOWN. Anne of Avonlea (1909) is the second book in the...
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Kokoschka’s Doll by Afonso Cruz – #EUPL
You might remember that, last year, I read and reviewed a few of the books that had won the European Union Prize for Literature, also known as the EUPL. Among them was Selja Ahava’s Things That Fall...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Yikes, it’s hot. Here in the UK, we are not built to deal with these muggy temperatures (and almost no homes have air-conditioning), so I am spending my time feeling enervated in front of a fan. And...
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Appointment With Venus by Jerrard Tickell
When I saw that Manderley Press had reprinted Appointment With Venus (1951) by Jerrard Tickell in the beautiful new edition pictured, I decided I had to get my own copy off the shelf. Mine isn’t quite...
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M is for Milne
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 can’t believe I haven’t done anything in my ‘A is for’ series...
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Violeta Among the Stars by Dulce Maria Caroso – #EUPL
I’m glad I’ve finished Violeta Among the Stars (2005) by Dulce Maria Cardoso in time to include it in Women in Translation month – it’s also one of the European Union Prize for Literature winners in...
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Tea or Books? #108: Books with Bite or No Bite; Late and Soon vs A Game of...
Bite, E.M. Delafield, Elizabeth Taylor – welcome to episode 108! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/tea-or-books-108.mp3 In the first half of this episode, we discuss a topic...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Join me in wishing Our Vicar’s Wife a very happy birthday today – it’s a big one, though I won’t say which because I’m a GENTLEMAN. Since I last wrote here I’ve had a weekend trip to Brussels – very...
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Two novels about female friendship
At my book group last month, we talked about novels about friendship – how surprisingly few of them there are. It’s something Rachel and I often mention on ‘Tea or Books?’. While there are many, many...
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A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Somehow five months have passed since I read A Town Called Solace (2021) by Mary Lawson and I haven’t written about it yet – but that’s not because I disliked it. On the contrary, Lawson is up there...
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House Happy by Muriel Resnik
House Happy (1958) by Muriel Resnik is one of the books I’ve bought for my Project 24 – I’d seen it every time I’ve been to Astley Book Farm, and I finally couldn’t resist and had to splurge a little...
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Five memoirs I’ve read recently
Quite a large percentage of the non-fiction I read or listen to is accounted for by memoirs and biographies. While glancing at my pile of books to be written about on here, I realised that five of them...
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Would You Trust A Canal? Peas in a Podcast #16
Here’s the latest episode of the (very) occasional podcast I do with my brother Colin! I honestly don’t remember what we said. Enjoy!...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Is it summer? Is it autumn? Is it winter? The weather in the UK this week is very unsure on that point, and so am I. But the windows are still open, and the blankets are out, so I’m making the best of...
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Happy Sunday – I can’t stop listening to ‘Sister of Nostalgia’ by Joanna Serenko, so now I’ll give you a chance too.
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N is for Nichols
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. For some reason it took me a while to think who I could write about...
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Excuse It, Please! by Cornelia Otis Skinner
A lot of people know and love Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough, but fewer people have gone on to discover Cornelia Otis Skinner’s collections of humorous...
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Six Degrees of Separation: From Notes on a Scandal to The Heir
It’s not often that I’ve read the starting book for the regular meme of a Six Degrees of Separation post (from Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best) – but, when the stars align, I can’t resist...
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