I loved Alice Ozma's memoir about a special reading promise she made with her dad...

I loved Alice Ozma's memoir about a special reading promise she made with her dad...

In 2026 I will once again joining forces with Kim at Reading Matters to host 'A Year with Iris Murdoch' We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January. I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!

So, we're saying that Cathy had access to blonde hair dye, huh

Does anyone else get endless book marketing emails, offering to promote books I didn't write and usually have nothing to do with? So far, I have been addressed as Richard Osman (sure he needs your help, random book marketer!), Rose Macaulay, Janni Nell... why?!

Coming soon. A forgotten #sci-fi #dystopian classic, first published 90 years ago and now reissued with an introduction by Graham Norton and a brand new cover commissioned from @tomgauld.bsky.social - pre-orders are open and shipping is worldwide! #booksky manderleypress.com/shop/p/womanalive

It's Novellas in November #NovNov25 and I've shamelessly borrowed this idea from @stuckinabook.bsky.social posting an A-Z (-X) of good novellas I've read and reviewed. annabookbel.net/an-a-z-of-no...

I really cannot express how good Bookish by Lucy Mangan is. It is speaking to my soul.

If you're thinking of doing #NovellasInNovember, you're in luck - here is an A-Z of brilliant novella suggestions! www.stuckinabook.com/an-a-z-of-br...

Yesterday's launch post for Dean Street December, coming soon! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/c... #booksky @deanstpress.bsky.social 📚💙 #deanstreetdecember25

I am listening to Lucy Mangan's absolutely joyfully wonderful Bookish, and cheering that she also thinks Anne the best Bronte.

If you're thinking of doing #NovellasInNovember, you're in luck - here is an A-Z of brilliant novella suggestions! www.stuckinabook.com/an-a-z-of-br...

Do we avoid books that will upset us? And Agatha Christie vs Ethel Lina White - it's ep143 of Tea or Books?! www.stuckinabook.com/143-do-we-av...

Do we avoid books that will upset us? And Agatha Christie vs Ethel Lina White - it's ep143 of Tea or Books?! www.stuckinabook.com/143-do-we-av...

For the #1925Club, I looked at Wings of Desire, Maurice Dekobra's first best-seller, which is full of his narrative divigations, absurd pontifications, and idiolectic fabrications. In other words, full of ridiculous fun as long as you don't take any of it seriously. neglectedbooks.com/?...

The next club is announced! Next April, we are reading from 1961 #1961Club

winstonsdad.blog/2025/10/28/t... a look back at my ten favourite reads of @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @stuckinabook.bsky.social club years

For Karen and Simon's next club, which will feature titles published in 1961, I have this beauty to offer. His funniest novel, and a complete joy. @kaggsy59.bsky.social @stuckinabook.bsky.social

On the Ramblings today - I consider some #1925club books which got away, and also reveal what year we'll explore next! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/1...

The next club is announced! Next April, we are reading from 1961 #1961Club

"Being alive at all is an incessant shock" Finishing off #1925Club with some travel writing from Stella Benson

New on the blog today for the #1925Club, I've written about GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES by Anita Loos. A wonderfully witty satire featuring Lorelei, the ultimate girl about town. It's smart, engaging and a whole lot of fun! #BookSky 💙📚 #FilmSky jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/g...

My latest #1925Club review takes me back to Russia and Maxim Gorky's The Artamonovs: 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...

My contribution to the #1925Club is a post on the wonderful Love by Elizabeth von Arnim, which had a lot to say about double standards in society & the pressures on women as they age 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3589831a-2956-408e-a6dc-19397cf94635

Next stop on the #1925Club world tour is Venice, and L.P. Hartley's early novella SIMONETTA PERKINS, another book I loved.

Also featuring: the exact email I sent @kaggsy59.bsky.social to suggest the club, back in Sept 2015!

For the #1925club today, we've encouraged everyone to share their favourite club reads of the ten years - here are mine! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/s...

Second, another find: Anzia Yezierska's unpromising-sounding BREAD GIVERS. Let's have a bread! It's better than the title. #1925Club

'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf, reviewed for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-mrs

A Manhattan double bill for #1925Club Thursday! First, MANHATTAN TRANSFER, and you can add me to the ranks of new John Dos Passos fans this week.

#1925Club Here's my review of Along The Road, Notes and Essays of a Tourist by Aldous Huxley... it includes the essay that Anthony Clarke had read before the war and thus halted the shelling of Sansepolcro for fear of damaging Piero della Francesca's Resurrection! anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/23/a...

Today, @kaggsy59.bsky.social and I are celebrating a decade of Club Reading Weeks (and we'd love you to, too!) Here are my favourite 12 books from those ten years... www.stuckinabook.com/unnecessary-...

From this week’s Beano.

I raced through that Patricia Wentworth novel for #1925club it was such a rollicking good page turner. I needed something in a similar vein (having a busy, exhausting week) so my second @deanstpress.bsky.social golden age mystery of the week is The Witness on the Roof by Annie Haynes. 💙📚

From a great Russian novel to a great American novel for the #1925Club - John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer: 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m...

A really brilliant Elizabeth von Arnim novel for the #1925Club: www.stuckinabook.com/love-by-eliz...

Three reviews for the #1925Club wordsandpeace.com/2025/10/22/t...

My next book for the #1925Club is David Garnett's THE SAILOR'S RETURN, a sad, compassionate, flawed depiction of an interracial marriage in 19th-century England. With a digression into Fassbinder.

A really brilliant Elizabeth von Arnim novel for the #1925Club: www.stuckinabook.com/love-by-eliz...

On the Ramblings today - a final guest post for #1925Club looks at classic sci fi! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/a...

One more for the #1925club: Edith Wharton's The Mother's Recompense oldgeezerrereadingblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/

Fascinating question, seemingly mostly answered by intensely 'genre' films/books.

No blog posts from me these days, but I can still join in with the #1925club reading the entertaining The Black Cabinet by Patricia Wentworth. I can't remember if I have read her before, so I may have many to explore. 💙📚

Today's #1925Club offering from me is a quasi-theological bizarrerie you may not have heard of, the closest thing I've read to the fabled Business Secrets of the Pharaohs.

For the #1925Club, I've read a lesser-known Mollie Panter-Downes novel.

My contribution to the #1925club is a novel I dodged over four decades. It's fantastic! brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/10/wild...

My first review for @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @stuckinabook.bsky.social's #1925Club - Mikhail Bulgakov's The White Guard (translated by Michael Glenny): 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/t...

Read for @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @stuckinabook.bsky.social 's #1925Week, P. G. Wodehouse's "Carry on, Jeeves" had me howling! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/b... #booksky 📚💙

Hey, @kaggsy59.bsky.social (or whoever makes the rules), can I submit for the #1925club a blog I wrote a couple of months ago on 1925's The Great Gatsby? Here's the link oldgeezerrereadingblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/r...

It's time for the #1925Club and my first offering is Greenery Street by Angela Thirkell's little brother: tinyurl.com/4wm5xn22 @stuckinabook.bsky.social @kaggsy59.bsky.social