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Unnecessary Rankings! Stella Gibbons
My ‘Unnecessary Rankings!‘ series have quickly become my favourite blog posts to write, and I love reading your comments – sometimes in agreement, but usually not, and that’s the most fun. Of all the...
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The books I bought in Hay-on-Wye (it was a lot)
I’ve just been away for a week to a lovely cottage on the Dinefwr National Trust estate with some friends. It’s in Wales, and only just over an hour away from Hay-on-Wye… so naturally we took the trek...
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Why I’m Not A Millionaire by Nancy Spain
Nancy Spain has been having a new lease of life recently, with the re-issue of her detective novels. To a certain generation, she is also remembered as a regular on radio and TV panel shows. For me, I...
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Come to Esther Rutter’s online book launch (with me!)
Many of you may have read Esther Rutter’s brilliant This Golden Fleece about the historical, cultural and social significance of knitting and wool – it’s not a topic I knew anything about, but I loved...
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Unnecessary Rankings! British Library Women Writers
Since it’s International Women’s Day, I thought I’d commemorate the occasion by… ranking books by women! Yes, putting successful women up against each other probably isn’t the MOST #IWD thing, but...
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Lady Living Alone by Norah Lofts
I picked up Lady Living Alone by Norah Lofts in a wonderful, cavernous bookshop in Whitehaven, Cumbria, when I was there last year. I bought it off the strength of the title, and the fact that I’ve...
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How To Be Multiple by Helena de Bres
When I discovered there was a new collection of essays out about the philosophy of twins, and that it was written by an identical twin, I couldn’t resist. Having tweeted my excitement, Manchester...
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Tea or Books? #126: Should Books Be Banned? and Lessons in Chemistry vs Dear...
Banned books, Bonnie Garmus and A.J. Pearce – welcome to episode 126! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/tea-or-books-126.mp3 In the first half of the episode, we discuss banned...
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What’s For Dinner? by James Schuyler
I wrote on Instagram that What’s For Dinner? (1978) was ‘like Ivy Compton-Burnett’s characters leapt forward a century and took to drinking cooking sherry’ and I’m half-tempted to leave my post simply...
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The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
The Baron in the Trees (1957) is my first novel by Italo Calvino – and the description of it is a real tussle between something that really appeals to me and something that really doesn’t. On the one...
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The novel that turned into All Of Us Strangers
I loved Andrew Haigh’s film All of Us Strangers and think it’s criminal that Andrew Scott and Jamie Bell haven’t won every award under the sun (and Paul Mescal and Claire Foy can have some too). It...
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Happy blog birthday to me!
For once, I remembered to celebrate – today is the blogiversary of StuckinaBook. And it’s old enough to get a driving licence in the UK – 17 years old!! It’s seems quite extraordinary that I’m still...
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#1937Club: your reviews!
The 1937 Club kicks off today! Until Sunday, we’d love to know your thoughts and reviews of any book published in 1937 – whatever genre, format, language etc. Together, we can put together a sense of...
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Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham – #1937Club
My first stop for the 1937 Club is Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham. I bought my copy in 2011, drawn (as ever) to any novel about the theatre. And what could be more about the theatre than a novel which...
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I Would Be Private by Rose Macaulay – #1937Club
For a long time, I tended to see Rose Macaulay only mentioned in relation to her final novel, The Towers of Trebizond. That shifted a bit when Vintage brought back some of her novels, and other...
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Today’s contribution to the 1937 Club is something I used to often do with the club years, where relevant – find out what Virginia Woolf was writing in her diary that year. I flicked through the...
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Two #1937Club murder mysteries
I am so behind with gathering up and reading 1937 Club posts – what else is new for a club week? – but I’m loving seeing them flood in, and will catch up. For today, I am writing about two golden age...
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No Peace for the Wicked by Ursula Torday – #1937Club
In the final afternoon of the 1937 Club, I’m writing about the most obscure of my choices this week – Ursula Torday’s No Peace for the Wicked. It’s one of three novels that Torday wrote under her own...
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The next club will be…
Thank you to everyone who made the 1937 Club such a success. I think it’s our highest number of reviews yet. Karen and I have chatted and the next club year, in October, will be… the 1970 Club! Looking...
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Tea or Books? #127: Do We Have Guilty Pleasures? and A Clergyman’s Daughter...
George Orwell, E.H. Young, guilty pleasures – welcome to episode 127! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tea-or-books-127.mp3 In the first half of the episode, we ask: what is our...
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