As promised, Karen and I have decided on the next club year – for October, which will come around quickly, I’m sure. After some suggestions and some discussion, we’ve decided to go for… 1956!
Obviously we’ll give you lots of reminders nearer the time, but I’m excited already!
Ooh brilliant – such a lovely lot of interesting titles to choose from! I was not able to join in with the recent 1920 club and really felt as if something was missing in my life, so will look forward very much to this next round. Thanks for the early heads up! 😀
Very exciting – looking forward to this so much! :D
Ooh, thanks for letting us know – always fun to choose a book for this!
Looking forward to it :-)
Drat. You’re one year off my birth year. Would have been fun to do that….
Never mind, 1956 has a lot to offer. I can see Camus The Fall in there which i have a copy of so can take part without even buying anything….
Now to look through my shelves!
I’ve already starting searching my shelves (well, virtually). I see there were two Persephones published that year, Madame Solario and Every Eye, so those are possibilities! Thanks again for hosting!
Oo good point!
What a great choice! The planning and pondering of books will be such a bright spot in these upcoming months.
Some great books, including a few I’ve been meaning to get to for a while, to choose from. How exciting.
Oooh! Love it. I read Wodehouse for the 1920s. I probably could find one of his for 1956 too, but I’ll try someone else.
Some Googling (actually DuckDuckGoing) came up with these that maybe I’ll choose from:
That Uncertain Feeling by Amis;
The Naked Sun by Asimov;
The Fall by Camus;
Diamonds are Forever by Fleming;
Till We Have Faces by Lewis (this would be a second reading…love this book);
Palace Walk by Mahfouz;
Lost in the Barrens by Mowat;
What to read, what to read…?
I’ve read none of those, but the Lewis is my friend Ollie’s favourite book, so maybe it’s time…
Looking forward to it!
Found another on my TBR shelves! It’s called The Straight and Narrow Path by Honor Tracy. An English anthropologist goes to Ireland on holiday and writes an article on ‘local customs’ to his newspaper. Chaos ensues. It sounds like fun!
Now I’ll have to narrow down my choices, I have so many!
Looks like there are many interesting choices for this one, far more already on my shelves, if the public libraries are not reopen by then. Thanks for hosting and keeping us chipping away at our TBR lists and stacks and dreams.
I’m late noticing this, but there’s time. The Nun’s Story came out that year and was excellent–I’ve read it twice.