"Who doesn’t love a good romance? A tall, quiet, kilted laird and a lady fresh home from the USA. Swoon, right?"
Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson #bookreview #1952club @stuckinabook.bsky.social @kaggsy59.bsky.social
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Review: Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson
The 1952 club was hosted by bloggers Simon at Stuck in a Book and Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings as another in their series of “Year Clubs.” The idea is simple, read a book or books from the club’s yea…
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"Who doesn’t love a good romance? A tall, quiet, kilted laird and a lady fresh home from the USA. Swoon, right?"
Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson #bookreview #1952club @stuckinabook.bsky.social @kaggsy59.bsky.social
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Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson #bookreview #1952club @stuckinabook.bsky.social @kaggsy59.bsky.social
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A belated review of 'The Birds and Other Stories' by #DaphneDuMaurier for the #1952Club.
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A belated review of 'The Birds and Other Stories' by #DaphneDuMaurier for the #1952Club.
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Not sitting comfortably: #1952Club
Stylised raven from the Sutton Hoo shield. The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier, introduction by David Thomson. Virago Modern Classics, 2004 (1952). First published in the UK in 1952 as…
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May 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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A belated review of 'The Birds and Other Stories' by #DaphneDuMaurier for the #1952Club.
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A belated review of 'The Birds and Other Stories' by #DaphneDuMaurier for the #1952Club.
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Books I read in April 🌸
Not pictured: 🎧 The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Still got a little bit left of du Maurier's collection, but I think it's my best of the month, prompted to read by the #1952Club and by an essay from Writing the Uncanny.
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Not pictured: 🎧 The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Still got a little bit left of du Maurier's collection, but I think it's my best of the month, prompted to read by the #1952Club and by an essay from Writing the Uncanny.
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May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Books I read in April 🌸
Not pictured: 🎧 The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Still got a little bit left of du Maurier's collection, but I think it's my best of the month, prompted to read by the #1952Club and by an essay from Writing the Uncanny.
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Not pictured: 🎧 The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Still got a little bit left of du Maurier's collection, but I think it's my best of the month, prompted to read by the #1952Club and by an essay from Writing the Uncanny.
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April was a bumper reading month for me, thanks in part to the #1952Club - more thoughts on this here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/a...
April reading – and edging into May (and hopefully Spring…)
April seemed to fly by this year, and that may be something to do with the fact that the Easter holidays fell slap-bang in the middle! That break *did* give me a chance to get a lot of reading done…
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April 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
April was a bumper reading month for me, thanks in part to the #1952Club - more thoughts on this here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/a...
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Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025.
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Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025.
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Bookwise 2025/4
‘Decadent Youth’ (1899) by Ramon Casas. This month my post ‘Why do I read?’ stimulated some fascinating discussion, though luckily nobody saw it indulgent or even, as in the…
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Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025.
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Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025.
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Thanks to everyone who joined in with the #1952Club - it was a bumper week! Today on the Ramblings I consider what we might do next... kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/r...
Rounding up the #1952Club – and some thoughts on where we go next!
Whew! Well, what a week that was! I thought that 1952 was going to be a bumper year to read from, as there are so many choices, and it’s been wonderful to see so many people taking part. The …
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April 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Thanks to everyone who joined in with the #1952Club - it was a bumper week! Today on the Ramblings I consider what we might do next... kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/r...
My final book for the #1952Club is Period Piece by Gwen Raverat, a granddaughter of Chales Darwin perfectretort.blogspot.com/2025/04/peri...
April 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
My final book for the #1952Club is Period Piece by Gwen Raverat, a granddaughter of Chales Darwin perfectretort.blogspot.com/2025/04/peri...
Snuck one more #1952club read in this week. Thanks to @stuckinabook.bsky.social for the prompt of these two novellas. Wilson writes "the poetry of experience" in the tiny resentments, sacrifices, fears, and the unspoken among her characters - some heroic, some mock - but all deeply moving.
April 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Snuck one more #1952club read in this week. Thanks to @stuckinabook.bsky.social for the prompt of these two novellas. Wilson writes "the poetry of experience" in the tiny resentments, sacrifices, fears, and the unspoken among her characters - some heroic, some mock - but all deeply moving.
My final review for the #1952Club is Alba de Cespedes' Forbidden Notebook, translated by Ann Goldstein:
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Forbidden Notebook
If the popularity of Elena Ferrante led to the rediscovery of Natalia Ginzburg, which in turn has encouraged publishers to look to other Italian women writers of the 1940s onwards such as Alba De C…
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My final review for the #1952Club is Alba de Cespedes' Forbidden Notebook, translated by Ann Goldstein:
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Current read for #1952club, great excuse to pick up a PGW.
Hornswoggling highbinders, Fruity Biffen, a Mrs Bunbury, and this time, the pig shenanigans are the fear that the Empress will be spiked with Tubby Parsloe’s Slimmo.
“Think, Gally. Use the bean.”
Marvellous.
Hornswoggling highbinders, Fruity Biffen, a Mrs Bunbury, and this time, the pig shenanigans are the fear that the Empress will be spiked with Tubby Parsloe’s Slimmo.
“Think, Gally. Use the bean.”
Marvellous.
April 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Current read for #1952club, great excuse to pick up a PGW.
Hornswoggling highbinders, Fruity Biffen, a Mrs Bunbury, and this time, the pig shenanigans are the fear that the Empress will be spiked with Tubby Parsloe’s Slimmo.
“Think, Gally. Use the bean.”
Marvellous.
Hornswoggling highbinders, Fruity Biffen, a Mrs Bunbury, and this time, the pig shenanigans are the fear that the Empress will be spiked with Tubby Parsloe’s Slimmo.
“Think, Gally. Use the bean.”
Marvellous.
It’s the final day of the #1952club and today’s book is a dark and wonderful one from Paul Bowles - Let It Come Down - more here kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/t...
“…they all sat there in another world…” #1952Club #PaulBowles #LetItComeDown
My final read for the #1952Club is not a title I was particularly thinking of picking up for our Year Week, but somehow I ended up being drawn to it. I had, as usual, made a big list of possibiliti…
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April 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
It’s the final day of the #1952club and today’s book is a dark and wonderful one from Paul Bowles - Let It Come Down - more here kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/t...
Today on the blog, a final post for the #1952Club hosted by @stuckinabook.bsky.social & @kaggsy59.bsky.social “The Riviera isn't just a sunny place for shady people” (W. Somerset Maugham) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/04/27/t...
“The Riviera isn’t just a sunny place for shady people” (W. Somerset Maugham)
This is my final contribution to Kaggsy and Simon’s1952 Club which has been running all week. So far I’ve read two golden age mysteries for the club and I’m finishing with one too: Death on the Riv…
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April 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Today on the blog, a final post for the #1952Club hosted by @stuckinabook.bsky.social & @kaggsy59.bsky.social “The Riviera isn't just a sunny place for shady people” (W. Somerset Maugham) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/04/27/t...
I read Nancy and Plum by Betty McDonald for the #1952Club perfectretort.blogspot.com/2025/04/nanc...
April 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I read Nancy and Plum by Betty McDonald for the #1952Club perfectretort.blogspot.com/2025/04/nanc...
I reviewed Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor for the #1952Club
No 249 Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor #1952Club
Back in the mists of time when I did my degree in English Literature, I completed a module on the Southern Gothic, which introduced me to William Faulkner, Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor. I…
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April 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I reviewed Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor for the #1952Club
Nancy Mitford apparently called this book 'Here Lies Violet Trefusis' - I read Trefusis's not-very-revealing but nonetheless interesting memoir for #1952Club.
Don’t Look Round by Violet Trefusis – #1952Club
There was a time when I would indiscriminately buy almost any book connected to the Bloomsbury Group. To a certain extent, that’s a book-buying era I’m still living – but I don…
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April 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Nancy Mitford apparently called this book 'Here Lies Violet Trefusis' - I read Trefusis's not-very-revealing but nonetheless interesting memoir for #1952Club.
On the blog today... I have a rare reading failure for the #1952Club 😳 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/a...
A rare reading failure for the #1952Club… 😬😳
When I was casting about for possible titles to read during our #1952Club week, I did wonder about the Russians… This being Soviet times, I guessed there might be limited obvious options to c…
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April 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
On the blog today... I have a rare reading failure for the #1952Club 😳 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/a...
My last contribution for the #1952Club is Joan Henry's prison memoir WHO LIE IN GAOL. Bonus Glynis Johns content. Thanks to @stuckinabook.bsky.social and @kaggsy59.bsky.social as ever for hosting. Such a range of books this time!
The 1952 Club: Who Lie in Gaol / Joan Henry
I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. Oscar Wilde…
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April 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
My last contribution for the #1952Club is Joan Henry's prison memoir WHO LIE IN GAOL. Bonus Glynis Johns content. Thanks to @stuckinabook.bsky.social and @kaggsy59.bsky.social as ever for hosting. Such a range of books this time!
Should we judge a book by its cover? And its title? My latest #1952Club review is Fever of Love by Rosamond Harcourt-Smith.
Fever of Love by Rosamond Harcourt-Smith – #1952Club
I’m always willing to take a punt on a cheaply priced mid-century novel by a British woman, and that’s how Fever of Love by Rosamond Harcourt-Smith ended up in my hands on a trip to Hay…
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April 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Should we judge a book by its cover? And its title? My latest #1952Club review is Fever of Love by Rosamond Harcourt-Smith.
New on Neglected Books, for the #1952Club: Which Grain Will Grow, H. H. Lynde's novel about a small western city and its people, is careful, respectful, painstaking — but also justly criticized as an "intellectual bomb shelter," too insulated from its political context.
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Which Grain Will Grow, by H. H. Lynde (1952)
Looking about for a good book to offer as my contribution to the 1952 Club, I was a bit daunted by the gulf between the extremely un-neglected candidates (Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Stein…
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April 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New on Neglected Books, for the #1952Club: Which Grain Will Grow, H. H. Lynde's novel about a small western city and its people, is careful, respectful, painstaking — but also justly criticized as an "intellectual bomb shelter," too insulated from its political context.
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Snowflake by Paul Gallico #1952Club Decorations: David Knight lovebooksreadbooks.com/2025/04/25/s... > via @j-lbrbsblogs.bsky.social
Snowflake by Paul Gallico #1952Club Decorations: David Knight
A little treasure UNQUESTIONABLY a good many readers will be lifted to honest heights of emotion by Paul Gallico’s inspirational little story about an anxious and thoughtful snowflake. Born i…
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April 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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In case you are looking for any last-minute ideas on what to read for the #1952Club….
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#BookSky 💙📚 #crimefiction👇
With the #1952Club on the horizon, I've written about ten excellent books first published in 1952.
Featuring titles by literary power couple Ross Macdonald and Margaret Millar! #BookSky 💙📚 #CrimeFiction #Books
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Featuring titles by literary power couple Ross Macdonald and Margaret Millar! #BookSky 💙📚 #CrimeFiction #Books
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April 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM