Song for a Sunday
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Sunday Song, but I can’t stop listening to Nanci Griffith’s ‘Midnight in Missoula’, so now you can listen to it too.
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Tea or Books? #114: Linear vs Non-linear Narratives and Winter in the Air vs...
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Bowen, linear narratives – welcome to episode 114! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/tea-or-books-114.mp3 In the first half of this episode, we...
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Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
When we look for what we’re about to read next, there are probably a few things going on in our minds. I try not to plan too far ahead, because I find that putting books on an immediate to-read list...
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Penelope Mortimer’s The Home: now available!
Last year, one of my favourite reads was Penelope Mortimer’s darkly funny 1970s novel The Home. Such is the surprising speed of things, sometimes at least, that less than a year later it is available...
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Unnecessary Rankings! Michael Cunningham
There is exciting news about a new Michael Cunningham novel coming out next year – called Day – and it has prompted me to do the first in a series that I’ve been thinking about for a while. Anybody...
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Coming soon: The 1940 Club!
I’m heading away from the blog until just after Easter, so I will give warning now that the 1940 Club is just around the corner – time to ready your book or books, if you haven’t done yet! For those...
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1940 Club: All your reviews! #1940Club
Here’s the page where I’ll be gathering all the 1940 Club reviews – pop your link in the comments. If you don’t have anywhere online to put your review, then feel free to write it out in the comments....
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Final Edition by E.F. Benson – #1940Club
I have read E.F. Benson novels for previous club years, and they’re always a frothy and fun addition to any reading project. When I saw that 1940 also had a Benson book, and I had it on my shelves, it...
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The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge #1940Club
The Bird in the Tree (1940) is the third Elizabeth Goudge novel I’ve read, after The Middle Window and The Scent of Water, but it was the first one I ever owned. Embarrassingly, I was given it back in...
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Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck – #1940Club
Goodness knows when I bought Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck, but it was probably the best part of 15 years ago. Thank goodness for these reading clubs for making me pay attention to the books...
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Revisiting Miss Hargreaves – #1940Club
I think it shows extraordinary restraint that we are five or so years into these ‘reading the club’ years before we chose the year that Miss Hargreaves was published. You might think I inaugurated...
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A London Family Between the Wars by M.V. Hughes – #1940Club
The title to M.V. Hughes’s A London Family Between the Wars is only half accurate, and belies the fact that it is part of a series. You might be familiar with A London Child of the 1870s, which was...
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Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P.G. Wodehouse – #1940Club
There are so many P.G. Wodehouse books in the world, and so many of them are sitting unread on my bookshelves, that I try not to buy more. But I think I must have been tempted by the intriguing title...
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Tea or Books? #115: Do We Like Books About Bookshops? and Quartet in Autumn...
Barbara Pym, May Sarton, and bookshops – welcome to episode 115! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/tea-or-books-115.mp3 In the first half of the episode, we take up Sally’s...
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The next club… (and a minor podcast announcement)
I’m realising that I haven’t mentioned the successor to the 1940 Club on here yet! Ooops. You might have seen it on Karen’s blog, or on my social media – in October we will be doing *drum roll* the...
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Some books from Suffolk (and elsewhere)
When I was on holiday recently I took a trip to Treasure Chest Books in Felixstowe, Suffolk – one of my all-time favourite bookshops, though I’ve only been there three times, each time about ten years...
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Unnecessary Rankings! Elizabeth von Arnim
I’m continuing my series on ranking all the books I’ve read by authors I like – I kicked off with Michael Cunningham, and now I’m onto the much more prolific Elizabeth von Arnim. With Cunningham, I’d...
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The Self-Portrait of a Literary Biographer by Joan Givner #ABookADayInMay No.1
I was really hoping that Madame Bibi Lophile would do her A Novella a Day in May challenge again, and lo and behold the first post has gone live. I’ve joined in the past couple of years – I’m going to...
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Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe #ABookADayInMay No.2
Day two of this project will reveal two things that I had previously left unstated. My aim is to finish a book each day in May, but that doesn’t mean that I have also started that book. I did not read...
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The Portrait by Willem Jan Otten #ABookADayInMay No.3
I bought The Portrait (2005) by Willem Jan Otten because of that beautiful cover, which is blending in well with my throw. I also fancied reading something translated from Dutch – in this instance, by...
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