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Mrs Lorimer’s Quiet Summer by Molly Clavering
Sometimes it does feel like the corner of the book internet I occupy is really just Scott’s kingdom, and we live in it. Scott being Furrowed Middlebrow, of course, both blog and the series of reprints...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
The sun is out! I’ve been delighting the neighbourhood with my neon teal garden lounger, and some bright yellow short shorts. Summer clearly brings out the classy in me. Hope you’re having a good...
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Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
One of the flourishing genres that I like is the personal essay. I love it when they’re funny (Casey Wilson’s The Wreckage of My Presence is one of the best things I’ve read this year), but I also...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Wow, it has been unbearably hot since the last weekend miscellany. UK houses weren’t built for heat – none of us have aircon – and even my thick-stoned flat only stayed cool for a couple of days. But...
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Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić
I’m continuing my read through winners of the European Union Prize for Literature (as ever, a video at the bottom explaining the prize), which has been a really interesting and varied experience even...
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Dreaming of Rose by Sarah LeFanu
I love looking behind the scenes at books, and I’m particularly fascinated by the process of biography – because it’s a type of book that I can’t get my head around attempting. How to capture a full...
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Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
My book group recently read Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, from 2016 and shortlisted for the Booker prize that year. Let’s experiment with a review in bullet points. This doesn’t reflect the style of the...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Happy weekend everyone! And it’s a VERY happy weekend for me, because – so long as I’m not pinged after I schedule this blog post – I’ll be spending my Saturday in Hay-on-Wye! While the number of...
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So, I bought some books in Hay-on-Wye
I spent Saturday in Hay-on-Wye – the bookshop town in Wales, as I’m sure you know. I was meeting up with some friends who moved to Wales near the beginning of the pandemic, and it was wonderful to hang...
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Love in the Sun by Leo Walmsley
If you look at Jane’s 2010 review of Love in the Sun (1939) by Leo Walmsley, you’ll see a comment from me saying that I’d like to read it. And, indeed, I bought a copy in 2012, still remembering...
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British Library Women Writers: now available as audiobooks!
This is some exciting news I didn’t know was coming – six of the British Library Women Writers series are now available as audiobooks! I’ve got really into audiobooks in the past 18 months. Well,...
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Tea or Books? #97: Spontaneous or Planned Reading, and Tension vs Thank...
How do we choose our reading, and E.M. Delafield – welcome to episode 97! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tea-or-books-episode-97-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3 In the first...
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The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
Mary Lawson’s latest novel is on the longlist for the Booker Prize. Seeing her name there finally prompted me to read the novel she was longlisted for in 2006 – and which I bought in 2009: The Other...
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It’s one of those times where my pile of ‘to review’ books has got a bit teetering, so I’m going to write a little bit about five books I’ve read recently. And ‘recently’ goes back several months in...
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Sun City by Tove Jansson – #WITMonth
I bought Sun City by Tove Jansson in 2007, at which point there wasn’t that much of Jansson’s work available in English. This was one of two novels that had been translated in the ‘70s, and then she...
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The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
My book group does a Secret Santa every year at our Christmas meal. Everybody wraps a book and puts it in a bag, and you pick one out. They’re not chosen specially for you, but I’ve come away with some...
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Dry Season by Gabriela Babnik
I’m slipping into the final hours of Women in Translation Month with Dry Season (2015) by Gabriela Babnik – originally in Slovenian, and translated by Rawley Grau. It won the European Union Prize for...
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Announcing 4 New British Library Women Writers Novels!
Sometimes you see news about an exciting book coming out, and then you realise you have a year to wait. Well, not today friends – I’m going to tell you about the four new British Library Women Writers...
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The Painful Truth by Monty Lyman
As I probably said when I wrote about The Remarkable Life of the Skin, I would probably never read popular science if it weren’t written by Oliver Sacks – or by one of my friends. And it would be my...
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1976 Club: one month to go!
For those who like reminders – here is your reminder that the 1976 Club is only a month away! Karen and I will be asking everyone to read and review books published across the world in 1976. I’ve been...
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