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My Face For The World To See by Alfred Hayes #ABookADayInMay No.24
When Madame Bibi read Alfred Hayes’ In Love earlier in the month, it reminded me that I had My Face For The World To See (1958) on my shelves. I’d bought it because I’ll always pick up a NYRB Classic,...
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Nothing Dies by J.W. Dunne #ABookADayInMay No.25
I meant to read Nothing Dies (1940) during the 1940 Club earlier this year – somehow, even though it is only 98 pages, I didn’t get around to finishing it. And now I have! J.W. Dunne is one of those...
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The Leper’s Companions by Julia Blackburn #ABookADayInMay No.26
I normally have little interest in historical fiction, particularly set during the medieval period, but I decided to have a gamble on The Leper’s Companions (1999). That was partly because it is such...
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Artful by Ali Smith #ABookADayInMay No.27
I haven’t read any Ali Smith before, and I got sent Artful as a review copy when it was published in 2012 – and I decided on a whim this morning that it would be today’s book. And what a strange book...
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Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg #ABookADayInMay No.28
After a few days of feeling a bit lukewarm, or worse, about the books I’ve been reading, it was great today to read a really brilliant little novella. Sagittarius (1957) is my first Natalia Ginzburg,...
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London, With Love by Sarra Manning #ABookADayInMay No.29
I’ve been e-friends with Sarra Manning for years, and have read some wonderful books on her recommendation – but somehow I have never got around to reading one of her own books. There are lots to...
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Divorce? Of Course by Mary Essex #ABookADayInMay No.30
What a way with titles Mary Essex had! One of Ursula Bloom’s many pennames, she seems to have saved her best titles and best books for when she was writing in Mary Essex mode – though, confusingly,...
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Finishing #ABookADayInMay with The Finishing Touch by Brigid Brophy
We have got to the end of May! Thank you for all your encouragement and comments as I’ve finished my book each day – and particular thanks to Madame Bibi for creating the challenge and leading the...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Much of the weekend has gone, but it’s not too late for a weekend miscellany. Here in the UK it is very sunny, so I’m going to take my book off to a park to find an ice cream in a minute. First, I’ll...
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Tea or Books? #117 w/ Lucy Scholes – Do We Like Unnamed Characters? and...
Ursula Parrott, Winifred Boggs, unnamed characters – welcome to episode 117! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/tea-or-books-117.mp3 We are so delighted to welcome Lucy Scholes as...
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Rumour has it that he’s been buying books
I’ve been buying some books online and in-person over the past few weeks – quelle surprise – and I thought I’d talk you through the recent arrivals Chez StuckinaBook. Here we go, from the top of the...
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Temples of Delight by Barbara Trapido
We all say it often, but it really is true that our bookshelves can hold hidden gems just waiting to be discovered. Back in 2009, Bloomsbury kindly sent me all six of Barbara Trapido novels that had...
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Seven Cats I Have Loved by Anat Levit #ReadingTheMeow2023
When I saw that Mallika was inaugurating a week devoted to books about cats, you know I had to join in. Books! Cats! Basically my two favourite things, as anyone who follows my Instagram will attest....
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Two Japanese books about cats #ReadingTheMeow
Japan truly seems to love a book about a cat, and I am here for it. Two of the other books I’ve read for the #ReadingTheMeow themed week are short Japanese novels with ‘cat’ in the title – though...
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Unnecessary Rankings! Margery Sharp
Another in my Unnecessary Rankings series – and another of my favourite authors (and one that so much of the book blogging world loves too). I haven’t read everything by Margery Sharp by any means, but...
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Tea or Books? #118: Do We Read Children and Adult Books By The Same Author?...
Julie Otsuka, Jamaica Kincard, adults’ and children’s books – welcome to episode 118! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/tea-or-books-118.mp3 In the first half – a topic suggested...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
It’s fully summer now, and we have our annual village drinks this Saturday. Fingers crossed for sunshine? I hope you’re also enjoying suitably summery activities – unless, of course, you are in the...
View ArticleA bunch of books I’ve read recently
It’s that time again when I look at a big pile of books I’ve been intending to review, and don’t really have a full-post’s worth of things to say… so here they all are, in a round up. Hope you’re all...
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Foxybaby by Elizabeth Jolley
I think I started buying Elizabeth Jolley books because Kim at Reading Matters made them sound really interesting – I bought a few but never got around to reading any under Lisa at ANZ LitLovers said...
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Some books from Michael Moon’s in Whitehaven
I’m up at the Keswick Convention this week, in the Lake District, and one of the things on my list was to visit Michael Moon’s bookshop in Whitehaven. It’s perhaps not as well known as nearby Bookcase...
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