Happy weekend, and my, aren’t the nights drawing in? My little flat doesn’t have central heating, so expect to find me under a pile of duvets and blankets and an artfully placed cat. Still, it’s a good excuse to do very little but read and drink tea. Which is my usual practice, but now with added legitimacy.
Before I go onto the book, blog post, and link – Karen and I wanted to announce the year that we chose for the next club. We were delighted to get really thoughtful suggestions from people, and may well store these up for next October’s club – but for next April, we’re going with a year suggested by Paula: 1965! You’ve got months and months to prepare :)
1.) The link – this is an interesting discussion about working with the elusive Elena Ferrante, for the HBO version of her novel.
2.) The book – another book about reading that I am coveting! This one is by Anne Bogel, called I’d Rather Be Reading. Isn’t that cover lovely?
3.) The blog post – Resh has written a characteristically interesting about Instagram trends in book photography and how people have reacted to it… featured lots of lovely book photography, of course.
Hurrah for 1965! I think it wil be a good year. And as for “I’d Rather Be Reading” – that ought to be the title of my autobiography really….
Hi,
Is there a way I can sign up for the 1965 Book Club? I’d like to see the list of books to be read – very excited about this as 1965 was among the best of my life!
Thanks,
Ellen L.
Just join in next April, no signing up required! There isn’t a list of books – we just ask people to read and review any book published in 1965 (and you can put a review in the comments if you don’t have a blog or GoodReads etc yourself).
What fun: I’ll be there!
I’ll need to start hunting out 1965 books. I’m going to try and be organised this time!
Thank you for mentioning my post, Simon. You are someone I look up to among book bloggers, so it is thrilling to see a mention. Happy weekend.
I was in grade 9 in 1965 so that might be a funbyear to see what was going on in another realm to my life then. I enjoyed the blog post article re: books and instagram.
1965 sounds like a fun year! I’m so glad you featured Anne Bogel’s book. I’ve been following her blog for years, and her podcast about books is a fun one. I’ve been listening to it from the beginning. I’d Rather Be Reading was a treat!