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Everything’s Too Something! by Virginia GrahamTowards the end of A Book A Day in May, I read Virginia Graham’s Everything’s Too Something! (1966) and said I wanted to write about...
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Tea or Books? #128: Do We Read Plays? and Fifty Sounds vs The Housekeeper and the ProfessorPolly Barton, Yoko Ogawa, and plays – welcome to episode 128! document.createElement('audio');...
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Finishing off #ABookADayInMayWell, here we are! For the third? fourth? year in a row, I’ve finished a book a day in May. I’ll get onto some thoughts about this...
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A couple more #ABookADayInMay books (Sylvia Townsend Warner + Marjorie Stewart)We’re nearly there, everyone! The end is in sight, and it looks HOPEFUL that I’m going to make it. I’m not gonna lie, it’s...
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Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill #ABookADayInMay Day 26I can’t remember who first recommended Dept. of Speculation (2014) to me, but it was on one of the posts where I talked about loving...
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A round up of audiobooks (#ABookADayInMay, sort of)Today’s book was finishing off an audiobook that I don’t have masses to say about, so I thought I’d use it as an excuse to round...
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A couple of #ABookADayInMay disappointmentsInevitably, not every book in A Book A Day in May is going to be a success. The past couple of days have both been novellas that are gonna go...
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The Chip and the Block by E.M. Delafield – #ABookADayInMay Day 22E.M. Delafield was a very prolific novelist, and even though I’ve been reading her steadily for more than 20 years, there is still a...
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A very short novella by Vita Sackville-West #ABookADayInMay no.21I read Vita Sackville-West’s The Death of Noble Godavary back in 2019 , as part of another book-a-day project, but it’s taken me...
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Shadow Lines by Nicholas Royle #ABookADayInMay Day 20Today’s book is another one I can lay at Karen’s door, with her recent review , but I was always likely to get hold of Nicholas...
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A Book A Day in May – Days 17, 18, 19I’ve not been blogging, but I have been keeping up with my reading. One of these (the middle) I read entirely outside on a sunny Saturday....
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Two frenetic novellas #ABookADayInMay – Days 15+16The past couple of days, I’ve read two quite strange novellas. I don’t think they have anything in common except strangeness, so...
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Mind, Body, Forest, French: 3 non-fiction reads for #ABookADayInMayI’ve been getting my reading done for A Book A Day in May, but not very good at fitting in writing about the books – so today we have...
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A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton – #ABookADayInMay Day 11When I was shopping in Blackwells bookshop last weekend, I saw A Body Made of Glass (2024) by Caroline Crampton on a display table and was...
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Days 9 and 10 of #ABookADayInMaySome super quick thoughts about two days of books! Both are books I finished, but did not start, on the respective days. The Thursday Murder...
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Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann #ABookADayInMay Day 8Like, I suspect, a lot of people, I first heard of Lucy Ellmann when her behemoth, one-sentence novel Ducks, Newburyport made a big...
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Elizabeth Goudge and Maggie O’FarrellAs with previous A Book A Day in May challenges, sometimes I’m doubling up on days – and in the past two days I have finished a 407pp...
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Joe Cinque’s Consolation by Helen Garner #ABookADayInMay Day 5Today I had an action-packed day in London, and I did get through quite a lot of a book on the train to and from, but not a whole book....
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A delightful reread for #ABookADayInMay – Day 4I read Ashcombe (1949) by Cecil Beaton back in 2012, sitting in the Bodleian Library. I quickly knew I needed my own copy – and this...
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The Camomile by Catherine Carswell #ABookADayInMay – Day 3Off to 1920s Scotland for the latest in my A Book A Day In May journey – and The Camomile by Catherine Carswell. The narrator is Ellen...
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Valentino by Natalia Ginzburg #ABookADayInMay Day 2Happily, day two of A Book A Day in May was much more successful – and, somehow, even shorter. Only 62 pages! And yet Ginzburg gets a...
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#ABookADayInMay is back! And I didn’t like the first one!It’s May again, and that can only mean one thing – I’m doing A Book A Day in May again! I don’t know if Madame Bibi...
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Summer Half by Angela Thirkell – belated #1937Club guest post!I normally don’t post ‘club’ reviews after the week has finished – but we all make exceptions for our mothers, and here...
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Tea or Books? #127: Do We Have Guilty Pleasures? and A Clergyman’s Daughter vs The Vicar’s DaughterGeorge Orwell, E.H. Young, guilty pleasures – welcome to episode 127! document.createElement('audio');...
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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...
