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Tea or Books? #111: Do We Care What Characters Look Like? And Good Behaviour...
Molly Keane, M.J. Farrell, and characters’ appearances – welcome to episode 111! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/tea-or-books-111.mp3 In the first half, Rachel and I discuss...
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Project 24: Book 23
My blogging has been a bit minimal of late, and that’s because I’ve been having ongoing issues with my eyes – including not really being able to read. Which, I’m sure you’ll understand, has been really...
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Project 24: the final book (and all the books)
I hope you’ve had a lovely Christmas! I’ll be honest, my ongoing eye issues are making book blogging a bit tricky – so I’ll pop in with my Best Books of 2022 on New Year’s Eve, and otherwise I’ll...
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Top Books of 2022
It’s my favourite time of the book blogging year – seeing everyone’s Best Of lists, and compiling my own. As usual, I have stuck to one book per author, and haven’t included re-reads. I’ve read more...
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I always enjoy reading other people’s reading stats, and I’m coming out of my hiatus to put mine out. I also managed to read for a bit today, which was wonderful, and gives me a bit of hope for the...
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Tea or Books? #112: Best Books of 2022 and They Were Sisters vs The Three...
Dorothy Whipple, May Sinclair, and favourite books of 2022 – welcome to episode 112! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/tea-or-books-112.mp3 Happy new year! Welcome to the first...
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One Book, Two Book, Three Book, Four… and Five…
Eyes are steadily improving (though the cold weather isn’t helping), so I’m tentatively ending my blogging hiatus. We’ll see how it goes! And I’m starting with a meme I used to use a fair bit more than...
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Stuck in a Book’s Weekend Miscellany
It’s been a busy week, and eyes have been a little ropey again, so haven’t really done any reading. It’s going to be up and down, I’m sure, but hopefully it will continue to tend towards improvement....
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The Benefactress by Elizabeth von Arnim
If I told you I had read an Elizabeth von Arnim novel in which a woman decides to invite three other women she’s never met to live with her in a European country, and that they all start off a bit...
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The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
If you read my favourite books of 2022 list, you’ll know that Margaret Laurence came out on top – with A Jest of God, a brilliant short book about a woman called Rachel living a claustrophobic,...
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The Overhaul #8
Has it really been a year and a half since I did an Overhaul post? How did that happen? For those who haven’t seen the others in the series (click the tag for more), I go through previous ‘haul’ blog...
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A Perfect Woman by L.P. Hartley
About ten years ago, John Murray did some rather lovely reprints of L.P. Hartley’s novels – and it was around that time that I read their edition of his brilliant novel The Boat. And then Harriet...
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Tea or Books? #113: Do We Like Literary Retellings? and South Riding vs Ruth
Elizabeth Gaskell, Winifred Holtby, and more – welcome to episode 113! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/tea-or-books-113.mp3 In the first half of this episode, we look at...
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A Bachelor’s Comedy by J.E. Buckrose
After I enjoyed J.E. Buckrose’s novel The Privet Hedge, my friends Kirsty and Paul bought me a few other of her novels. She’s one of those writers who could so easily be a Persephone or a Virago, but...
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The House by the Sea by May Sarton
There is always something rather fun about spontaneously choosing a book to read next. You can forget the urgent pile of books that should logically be the next on the list and go, instead, for...
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A little Saturday bookshopping
I took a trip to the excellent bookshop in Wantage this morning and, as ever, came away with a lovely little haul. Here’s what I bought… Aftermath by Rachel Cusk I have to admit that I didn’t love the...
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Three quick reviews
Here are some quick reviews of other books that I’ve had waiting on my finished-but-not-blogged-about pile. All three are enjoyable, and I’d recommend hunting them out – though only one of them is...
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Another Saturday; another pile of books
I went to Draycott Books in Chipping Campden today – a bookshop I first visited last year. That was during Project 24, so I had to be very restrained. And it was just the sort of bookshop where I...
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The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
When I saw that Kim and Cathy announced that they were running a year of reading William Trevor, I was keen to join in. While I hadn’t read any of his books, he had long been on my peripheries – I...
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Babbacombe’s by Susan Scarlett
Writing about my latest Furrowed Middlebrow / Dean Street Press read, I have to mention the recent, tragically early death of Rupert Heath – the brainchild behind Dean Street Press. He leaves behind...
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