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Looking back at a very busy and bookish October!
I can’t believe that we’re actually at the end of October; the year is flying by, scarily so, and the dreaded C-word will be on us before we know it! I did have a very good month of reading, though, and here are the books I enjoyed in October: October 2025 reads! In case any of the titles aren’t clear, the titles are: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Tigress by Walter…
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#1925Club - the ones that got away - plus what comes next!
What a wonderful seven days of club reading it’s been! It’s been such fun spending our 10th anniversary reading week exploring books from 1925 and I personally really enjoyed the volumes I chose. Thanks to everyone who’s joined in and taken part, sharing your thoughts on an incredible range of books. There were so many titles that were new to me, and it was particularly interesting to see which…
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"You know what an inconstant person I am..." #Proust #thefugitive #1925Club
My final read for our 10th Anniversary Club is a book I’ve been keen to get onto, and in fact is the third book I’ve read this year by the author: “The Fugitive” by Marcel Proust, the penultimate volume in his Remembrance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time sequence. I’ve been gradually making my way through these over the years, and it’s not been a fast process; I started with “Swann’s Way”…
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"...we were unmistakable in a land where there are no strangers!" #1925Club
I had a notable failure for our most recent reading week, earlier in the year (the #1952Club – oh look, the last two numerals are the reverse of this month’s club!) The book in question was “Mirror to Russia” by Marie Noele Kelly, which I found to be a real struggle with the author’s bias spoiling my reading of it. I’m always fascinated to read the adventures of those who ventured behind the Iron…
"There are lives to be lived if only you didn't care." #1925Club
As I’ve probably mentioned before, I always like to use our Club Reading Weeks as an excuse to dig in the stacks and see what unread volumes I have from the year in question. For 1925, there were a surprising number of options, including today’s book: “Manhattan Transfer” by John Dos Passos. This title has been lurking in the TBR for decades – I suspect I acquired it in the 1980s or 1990s,…
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A final guest post considers an early Science Fiction work! #1925club
Over recent years, Mr. Kaggsy has taken part in our reading weeks with a guest post on my blog; however, he’s decided that our tenth anniversary club will be his swan song, and so here her offers his final guest post for the Club Reading Weeks! Metropolis by Thea von Harbou Opening words from the author (1888-1954; translated from German, name of translator not known) read: ‘This book is not of…
"Eyes I dare not meet in dreams" #1925Club
For our Club Reading Weeks, I always try to include some poetry if I can, and so when we settled on 1925 I took a look around to see what options there were. And it turned out to be when one of our best poets, T.S. Eliot, produced his seminal work “The Hollow Men”. It’s a poem I’ve read before, but I do like an excuse to return to Eliot, and so I explored the poetry shelves to see what editions…
Launching the #1925Club - with two examples of Golden Age Crime!
Historically, I always like to feature some classic crime on the Ramblings for the first day of our Club Reading Weeks – and more often than not, it turns out to be Agatha Christie! The 1920s were certainly a Golden Age for crime fiction, but 1925’s Christie title was “The Secret of Chimneys” and somehow I wasn’t feeling it. I contemplated a non-crime book and started it, but I’m afraid it turned…
