What am I currently reading? I’m very nearly finished The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown which has my head spinning but I’m thoroughly enjoying it! Reached the 80% mark in Middlemarch a…

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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 of…

My previous experience of David Garnett extended to one book, but what a book! namely his 1922 novella Lady into Fox. Surely no other work of his could measure up, but we had The Sailor’s Ret…

Wyndham goes subterranean in this early sci-fi caper, when Mark Hutton’s brand new Strato-Plane blows up mid-flight, plunging Mark and his girlfriend Margaret down into the New Sea – a massiv…

Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I've recently added to my TBR pile. I'm still going to be linking up with…

The #1925Club Yesterday, I presented briefly the 1925 books I read a while ago. Today, I am presenting three books that I read for this event, by order of preference: 🎧 My First Goose, by Isaac Ba…

Welcome to the 1925 Club! All week, Karen and I are asking people to read and review books published in 1925 – whatever format or language. Together, we’ll build up a picture of the yea…

Greenery Street, Denis Mackail, review

Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The White Guard was originally published in serial form in 1925, though the journal was closed down before it was completed. It then appeared as a novel in Paris in 1927, a…

Wild Geese Martha Ostenso New York: Dodd, Mead. 1925 pages The winner of the inaugural $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review Pri...

I’m currently a quarter of the way into Thomas Mann’s 1,500-page biblical epic Joseph and His Brothers, and an excursion into the theology of 1925 while I was in the zone felt a good id…

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes is one of the worst-kept secrets of the mid-20th century, isn’t it? She isn’t a household name, and you might not even find that book in the average…

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…

The #1925Club For 10 years Simon, at Stuck in a Book, and Karen at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings have been organizing club year events, usually in April and October, in which they encourage ever…

Welcome to the 1925 Club! All week, Karen and I are asking people to read and review books published in 1925 – whatever format or language. Together, we’ll build up a picture of the yea…

#theclassicsclub The Classics Club 2024-2029 MY FULL CLASSICS CLUB 5th LIST IS HERE The Classics Spin #42 Twitter hashtag: #ccspin For this Classics spin #42, I got #17 which on my list is A Street…

“I would leave everything here: the valleys, the hills, the paths, and the jaybirds from the gardens, I would leave here the petcocks and the padres, heaven and earth, spring and fall, I would leav…