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Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Another month, another cold… and I still haven’t written properly about the book that got me through the last cold. I did tell you that Swallows and Amazons (1930) by Arthur Ransome was being my...
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Every Good Deed – Dorothy Whipple
It wasn’t until I listed Every Good Deed among my purchases at the Bookbarn that I realised how scarce it was – as a couple of commenters pointed out. That made me feel duty-bound to read it asap,...
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More Muriel
My stream of reading Muriel Spark doesn’t look likely to come to an end any time soon – so was just so wonderfully prolific – and the latest one I’ve read is Territorial Rights (1979), given to me by...
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Oh, Agatha
Oh dear, have I really not blogged since last Wednesday? I’m sorry, I’m being very negligent – and I can’t even think of a reason why, as it hasn’t been an especially busy week. Perhaps it’s my general...
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Delight – J.B. Priestley
In 2009 I read a fun book called Modern Delight, in which various authors and others talked about the things that most bring them delight. I mentioned it in a Weekend Miscellany, but don’t think I ever...
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The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
I know I usually point you in the direction of my Vulpes Libris posts, but I really, really encourage you to read my review of Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter (1972) as it is phenomenally good....
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Muddling Through
One of the types of books I most love are those incidental, silly-humour books from between the world wars. The sort that is achingly middle-class and frivolous, neither lewd nor politically astute,...
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A Diet of Dame Agatha
For the sake of updating my Century of Books, and because I have precious little else to update Stuck-in-a-Book with at the moment, here’s a rundown of the Agatha Christies I’ve been reading of late....
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Cinderella Goes To The Morgue by Nancy Spain
Image from here.Sadly no d/w with my copy. In amongst all the excitement of a new issue of Shiny New Books, I’ve remembered about a little pile of books that have been waiting a while to be reviewed....
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Charlotte Mew and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
46. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald The first of my reviews I’m going to point towards, over at Shiny New Books, was the most unexpected treat. Indeed, it’s going on my 50 Books...
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Many things Milne
Issue 3 of Shiny New Books had not one, not two, but three posts about A.A. Milne & family – and I’d really encourage you to go and read them all. Curiously enough, none of them are actually...
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The City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings
If your reading tastes are anything like mine, then you’ve doubtless read a lot of books about the Second World War. But how often has that Second World War been in the 1980s? That is the premise to...
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Mrs Harris MP – Paul Gallico
Is it a bird? Is it a ‘plane? No, it’s actually a book review on Stuck-in-a-Book! Sorry that it’s been so long since my last one. Especially since I’m going to talk about a book I finished over six...
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Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Over at Vulpes Libris we’ve started another Shelf of Shame week – where the book foxes dig out the books they’ve been intending to read for ages, or feel vaguely ashamed that they haven’t read. As I...
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Home by Marilynne Robinson
Since I’ve got a review copy of Lila on my shelves (the third of Robinson’s novels to concern the good people of Gilead), I thought it was about time that I read Home (the second, from 2008, after...
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A Literary Journey Through Wartime Britain – A.C. Ward
Back in April I read A Literary Journey Through Wartime Britain (1943) by A.C. Ward, very kindly given to me by the always wonderful Karen/Kaggsy, but I have only just got around to reading it. I...
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Margaret Kennedy Reading Week
Are you joining in Margaret Kennedy Reading Week? All the info you need is here on Fleur Fisher Reads, and it’s all very exciting. I’d thought I would read Red Sky at Morning, because I started it...
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Hope you’re all having a good weekend! Mine is disappearing all too quickly… and I’ve read only 20 pages of the book I was intending to finish. Oops. Slightly different from usual this week, as I’m...
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This Is The End by Stella Benson
A Shiny New Review from Shiny New Books – of an old book, now reprinted by Mike Walmer. I loved I Pose by Stella Benson (review here) and leapt at the chance of reading her next book, This Is The End....
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My Sister Eileen – Ruth McKenney
There aren’t enough unashamedly lovely books around. Too many modern books (it seems) feel they have to be either trivial or miserable, as though the only way to be literary was to be grim. There is a...
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