2020: Some Reading Stats
Hopefully you’ve already seen my Top Books of 2020 – and now its time to do one of those fun reading stats posts, that delight other bloggers and blog readers and probably totally baffle normal people....
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Tea or Books? #91: Familiar or Unfamiliar Settings? and Two Elizabeth von...
Elizabeth von Arnim and settings of novels – welcome to episode 91! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/tea-or-books-episode-91.mp3 In the first half of the novel, we look at the...
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Nothing is Black by Deirdre Madden
I absolutely loved Molly Fox’s Birthday a year or so ago, and so over Christmas I thought I’d treat myself to one of the other Deirdre Madden novels that I’d since been stockpiling. I went on Twitter...
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For All We Know by G.B. Stern
What a curious novel, which has left rather an impression on me, even though I find it a little complex to untangle. I bought For All We Know [1955] in 2011, based on having enjoyed her books on Jane...
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The Land by Vita Sackville-West [or a bit of it]
I am trying to be the sort of person who likes poetry, and picking some of the poems off my bookshelves. If I’m honest, it hasn’t been an enormous success yet – though I did enjoy some of the Yeats I...
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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
I imagine you’ve probably read Shaun Bythell’s very funny accounts of running a secondhand bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland – Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller. I love them and I’m...
View ArticleThe BookTube Spin
Look, I’m not on BookTube – where people talk about books on YouTube, for the uninitiated. Nobody needs to see my shoddy camera angles and poor editing technique. But I do enjoy watching a few of the...
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The Indignant Spinsters by Winifred Boggs
Last year, Sally on the Rocks by Winifred Boggs was one of my favourite reads, and I’ve made no secret about the fact that I’d love it to be a British Library Women Writers title at some point. But it...
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Tea or Books? #92: Do We Care What Characters Wear? and Girl, Woman, Other vs...
Bernadine Evaristo, Kate Atkinson, and clothes – welcome to episode 92. https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Tea-or-Books-episode-92.mp3 In the first half of the episode, Rachel and...
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Interview: Will from Renard Press
This month, Karen and Lizzy are running #ReadIndies – encouraging us all to read books published by independent publishing houses. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got loads waiting on the shelves,...
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Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
#ReadIndies naturally made me think of my unread pile of Fitzcarraldo Editions. I’ve yet to buy any of the blue fiction titles, but am amassing the white non-fiction – mostly spurred on by how...
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A round-up of #ReadIndies books
I’ve been busy reading for Karen and Lizzy’s #ReadIndies month, and here are three of the books that came off my tbr pile for it. They could scarcely be more different! The book: Bramton Wick by...
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A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Janeites will read anything about Jane Austen – and it’s also a truth universally acknowledged that this opening ‘bit’ is wildly overused. Sorry about that....
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Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett is perhaps one of those names who is more remembered than read nowadays, though I know there is a very active Arnold Bennett Society that always seems to notice when I review one of his...
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The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
For #ReadIndies month, I had to pick up one of the many unread British Library Crime Classics I have on my shelf. Or, more precisely, piled high on top of a bookcase. Quite a lot of people have...
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The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi
I got sent Helen Oyeyemi’s second novel, The Opposite House, by the publisher in… 2008, the year after it was published. Oops, sorry Bloomsbury. I’ve read four of her other books, and have finally read...
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Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink
I will read any book about reading, as you might be aware if you’re a regular reader of Stuck in a Book. Some of them are among my all-time favourites, and some of them are a little more – if you will...
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One Woman’s Year by Stella Martin Currey
There were several independent publishers I knew I wanted to read for #ReadIndies month, and of course Persephone was among them. But which one? Well, I was most excited about One Woman’s Year by...
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Tea or Books? #93 Do We Care What Characters Are Called? and Two Tove Jansson...
Summer, Winter, names – welcome to episode 93. https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tea-or-books-episode-93.mp3 In the first half, we ask: ‘Do we care what characters are called?’,...
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H is for Hill
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. How many books do I have by Susan Hill? As always, I haven’t quite...
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