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Family Skeletons by Henrietta Garnett
I bought Family Skeletons (1986) in 2011, shortly after seeing Henrietta Garnett give a talk about her life at a bookshop in Oxford. It was a fun evening, not just because her life is interesting but...
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#1956Club – ready, set, go!
The 1956 Club starts tomorrow – this is the place to leave your review links, or feel free to put your review in the comments if you don’t write reviews anywhere. For the uninitiated – every six...
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Tea at Four O’Clock by Janet McNeill – #1956Club
One of the reasons I love these club years is that it makes me delve into the books that have sat on my shelves for donkey’s years. I bought Tea at Four O’Clock by Janet McNeill in 2005, and it has sat...
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Talk of the Devil by Frank Baker – #1956club
Another book that’s been on my shelves for at least 15 years is Talk of the Devil by Frank Baker [image on left from Fantastic Fiction]. It’s no secret that his earlier novel Miss Hargreaves is all...
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Beyond the Gates by Dorothy Evelyn Smith – #1956club
I’ve been buying up Dorothy Evelyn Smith’s novels, because I’m worried that when O, The Brave Music is published by the British Library later in the year, there will suddenly be none of them on the...
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Spam Tomorrow by Verily Anderson – #1956Club
It is well documented that I want to own every single one of the Furrowed Middlebrow titles from Dean Street Press, and I’m doing my best to achieve that goal. I bought Spam Tomorrow by Verily Anderson...
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Thin Ice by Compton Mackenzie – #1956Club
Thank you for some additional 1956 Club reviews since I updated the page recently – I will make sure the list is fully updated at the end of the week. And will read all the reviews too! This week has...
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The club is dead – long live the club!
(Firstly, sorry to people who get emailed all my posts – you’ll just have received my ‘about me’, because I realised I didn’t have one and wanted to link to it in the sidebar. But nice to meet you all,...
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The Overhaul #7
Let’s do another Overhaul! It’s where I look at some books that I bought, and see how many of them I’ve read, how many I’ve not kept, and how many are still to read. I basically shame myself for all of...
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Announcing the 1936 Club!
Thank you for all your suggestions for the next club year! Karen and I looked through them all and had a discussion, and decided to go with Marina’s suggestion of 1936, which has a good range of...
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Twin Primes and Prime Twins: Peas in a Podcast #13
Colin and I are back with crucial discussions about Chicken Tonight, being trapped on an island with a fox, and some maths stuff I didn’t understand. Listen below or via your podcast of choice – there...
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Jack by Marilynne Robinson
The publication of a new novel by Marilynne Robinson is always an event. She is one of the few authors whose output I eagerly await, and I had Jack preordered – it arrived a couple of weeks before the...
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The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
One of the most important things about a holiday, I’m sure we can all agree, is choosing which books to bring. If I’m going on holiday by car, I bring wildly too many – because then I can have some...
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Pomp and Circumstance by Noel Coward
It seems odd to me that Noel Coward wrote something in 1960. To me, he seems hermetically sealed within the 1930s. As it happens, he lived until 1973. but it’s still quite bizarre to read a novel by...
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Stuck in a Book’s Weekend Miscellany
The season has definitely changed here in the UK. The clocks have gone back, the evenings are getting darker, and the leaves are changing. It’s all very pretty but a little miserable to be dark and...
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F is for Fitzgerald
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 wasn’t immediately sure where to go with F – Rachel Ferguson,...
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Because it was a nicer copy of a book I already loved Because it had a painting I liked on the cover Because of the lovely musty smell Because my friend was so enthusiastic (even though I knew I...
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Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
Fresh off reading The Snow Queen, I went to my Cs shelf to see what else was waiting by Michael Cunningham. Well done for stockpiling, past Simon – I had a couple to choose from, and opted for Flesh...
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Tea or Books? #89: Do we care about gardens?, and Gilead vs Home
Marilynne Robinson and gardens – welcome to episode 89! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/tea-or-books-episode-89.mp3 We are scraping the barrel a little in our first half, and...
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British Library Women Writers #5: Father by Elizabeth von Arnim
I am getting behind with writing about these books – there are seven out, and I’m only on number five – but slow and steady wins the race! Much like when I chose Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay for the...
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