It’s been another great week of club reading! Thanks so much to everyone who joined in. Here are the reviews that came out this week – let me know if I missed yours. (I should say, I’m still adding them – so if you’ve already put it in a comment, then I’ll add it soon!) It’s been really interesting to see how wartime made a difference to the writing going on – and, in some cases, how it didn’t. Another really fun, really illuminating club! News about the next one soon…
Fair Stood the Wind for France by H.E. Bates
Annabel’s House of Books
Bag Full of Books
The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings / Mr Kaggsy
Staircase Wit
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Book Jotter
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
Briefer than Literal Statement
Gay from China at the Chalet School by Elinor Brent-Dyer
Guignol’s Band by Céline
Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
Gigi by Colette
The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
The Literary Sisters
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
The Book of the Dead by Elizabeth Daly
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge
Earth and High Heaven by Gwethalyn Graham
She Reads Novels
Buried in Print
The Shrimp and the Anemone by L.P. Hartley
Harriet Devine’s Blog
Stuck in a Book
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer
Young Bess by Margaret Irwin
The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist
No More Than Human by Maura Laverty
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
The Ballad and the Source by Rosamond Lehmann
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
Agostino by Albert Moravio
Company in the Evening by Ursula Orange
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Lizzy’s Literary Life
Pining for the West
A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair
Hopewell’s Public Library of Life
The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Transit by Anna Seghers
Kaggsys Bookish Ramblings
Lizzy’s Literary Life
Dragonwyck by Anya Seton
V-Letter and other Poems by Karl Shapiro
Pastoral by Nevil Shute
Inspector Cadaver by Georges Simenon
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Winston’s Dad
Signe Picpus by Georges Simenon
Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout
The Clock Strikes Twelve by Patricia Wentworth
They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
I haven’t got round to reading everyone’s posts just yet but hope to do so over the next couple of days.
I only managed one this time—Guignol’s Band by Louis-Ferdinand Céline though I’ve nearly finished The Shrimp and the Anemone.
It’s been a fun week, hasn’t it Simon? And some really interesting and varied books. I’ve done a few more (as you probably know)
Ficciones – https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2018/10/21/1944club-in-all-the-library-there-are-no-two-identical-books/
Gigi – https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2018/10/20/1944club-a-heroine-takes-control-of-her-own/
The Case of the Gilded Fly – https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2018/10/19/1944club-the-pure-genius-of-edmund-crispin/
As usual I ran out of time and I wish I could have read more. But such fun! Here’s to the next Club!
Thank you for hosting! It’s been fun
i reviewed Transit as well. https://lizzysiddal.wordpress.com/2018/10/19/book-to-movie-anna-seghers-transit-1944club-possibly/
Here’s another! I left the link over at Kaggsy’s, but I’ll give it to you, too. Pastoral by Nevil Shute.
https://leavesandpages.com/2018/10/18/primroses-and-trout-fishing-war-and-bombs-pastoral-by-nevil-shute/
What a fantastic round-up. I never thought of Estes Hundred Dresses. What a lovely choice that would have been, like Rabbit Hill.
Thanks for hosting and I’m looking forward to the years that other readers are partial towards. I’m not sure that I have an opinion on the matter, but I will be sure to find something that fits, if possible!
Lots to follow up here, thank you for organising – and a Friday’s Child review from me http://desperatereader.blogspot.com/2018/10/fridays-child-georgette-heyer-1944-book.html
Interesting that nobody read Somerset Maugham The Razor’s Edge. I had ordered it but it didn’t come in time for me to finish it for the week. I’m halfway through it now and really enjoying it.