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The 1962 Club: Your Reviews!
I’m delighted that the 1962 Club is here – join Karen and me in reading and reviewing books from 1962. Any language, format, genre – we’d love to build up a picture of 1962 between us. We’ve been...
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An End To Running by Lynne Reid Banks #1962Club
(I wrote this review before the recent shocking violence in Israel and Gaza, and that’s why it isn’t mentioned.) One of my favourite books is Lynne Reid Banks’ The L-Shaped Room, which was also one of...
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The Double Heart by Lettice Cooper – #1962Club
I didn’t manage to read a huge amount for the 1962 Club, and I seem to have specialised in authors better remembered for other books. After Lynne Reid Banks, I’ve turned my attention to Lettice Cooper...
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A Cat in the Window by Derek Tangye – #1962Club
Wow, there are so many 1962 Club reviews coming in! I am behind with updating the page and not even managing to read all the reviews at the moment, but will go back and explore them. And I did manage...
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Announcing the next club…
Thank you so much for all your 1962 Club reviews! What a fun year it has been, and with such variety. I only managed to read three books, but I got a lot out of them, with the bonus that two of them...
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William’s Wife by Gertrude Trevelyan
I’m delighted that Recovered Books is making G.E. Trevelyan’s novels available again, because they have been so very difficult to get hold of. The next (after they published Two Thousand Million...
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This House of Grief by Helen Garner
I hadn’t heard of Robert Farquharson or Cindy Gambino, or their children Jai, Tyler, and Bailey, before I started Helen Garner’s This House of Grief (2014). I suspect the same wouldn’t be true of most...
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The Jasmine Farm by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Jasmine Farm (1934) isn’t one of Elizabeth von Arnim’s novels that I see discussed very often. It was her penultimate novel, and I will say at the outset that it is far from her best – but even in...
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Nocturne by Helen Humphreys
One of the authors I’d been advised to look out for in Canada was Helen Humphreys. I did find a few of her novels, but they were almost all set in England, and I’d much rather read a Canadian writer...
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Unnecessary Rankings! R.C. Sherriff
It was my birthday yesterday and I’ll my bookish gifts at some point (it will surprise nobody to know I got a few), but for today let’s do some more Unnecessary Ranking! This time I’ve picked R.C....
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Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim
For years I’d heard three things about Vera (1921) – that it was Elizabeth von Arnim’s darkest novel, that it was autobiographical, and that it was possibly the inspiration for Daphne du Maurier’s...
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The books I got for my birthday
It was a couple of weeks ago, but I thought I’d share the books I got for my birthday – some from my wishlist, and others surprises. I might be missing some, but these are the ones in a pile… (not...
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Tea or Books? #122: Mary Lawson novels w/ Mary Lawson!
Mary Lawson joins us to talk about all her novels – welcome to episode 122! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tea-or-books-122-mary-lawson.mp3 I can’t quite believe I’m writing...
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Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar
I wanted to write about Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar (translated by Jerry Pinto) before the end of Novellas in November – hosted by Rebecca and Cathy. It’s only as I sit down to review it that I...
View ArticleA whole bunch of audiobooks I’ve listened to recently
As per, I’ve been listening to an awful lot of audiobooks recently – some very good, some enjoyable trash, some in between. Here’s a quick overview of some of them (…minus the trash, which nobody needs...
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Stories for Winter: new British Library Women Writers collection!
A quick post to say there is a new collection of stories out from the British Library Women Writers series, and it’s perfect for Secret Santa, stockings, or any festive gift: Stories for Winter and...
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Tea or Books? #123: Critical or Charitable Reading? and Sheep’s Clothing vs...
Beryl Bainbridge, Celia Dale, critical and charitable reading – welcome to episode 123! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/tea-or-books-123.mp3 In the first half of the episode we...
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Blight by Tom Carlisle
One of the interesting and fun things about friends writing books is that they take you in all sorts of places you wouldn’t necessarily expect. Would I have picked up a novel described as folk horror...
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Unnecessary Rankings! Shirley Jackson
I try to stick to writers I’ve read most or all of, for these unnecesary rankings – so how has it taken me this long to include Shirley Jackson? Join me as I rank all her books, as I am a Jackson...
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A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence
Regular visitors to StuckinaBook will know how much I adore Margaret Laurence, and particularly here Manawaka sequence of novels. They have a little overlap, though can be read independently – and it...
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