For the uninitiated – Karen and I are asking everyone to read books published in 1930, and together we’ll get an overview of the year. It’s the seventh, maybe, year that we’ve done a club for, and they’re always great fun. As for the rules – you can make them up, really, but essentially any sort of book, in any language, is welcome.
Here are the new reviews from this week:
Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham
Corduroy by Adrian Bell
The Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton
It Walks by Night by John Dickson Carr
She Reads Novels
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Enter the Saint by Leslie Charteris
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie
HeavenAli
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman
Venus on Wheels by Maurice Dekobra
Turn Back the Leaves by E.M. Delafield
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
JacquiWine’s Journal
The Book Trunk
The Captive Reader
Staircase Wit
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Tredynas Days
Booked For Life
Shoshi’s Book Blog
Civilisation and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Briefer Than Literal Statement
An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov
Second Harvest by Jean Giono
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
ANZ Litlovers LitBlog
Mockingbirds, Looking Glasses, and Prejudices
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer
Vulgarity in Literature by Aldous Huxley
Cat’s Company by Michael Joseph
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
The Virgin and the Gypsy by D.H. Lawrence
The Rebels by Sándor Márai
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
ANZ Litlovers LitBlog
Harriet Devine’s Blog
What Me Read
Le Bal by Irene Nemirovsky
Last Night Of Love, First Night of War by Camil Petrescu
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Indextrious Reader
What Me Read
1066 and All That by Sellar and Yeatman
The Weatherhouse by Nan Shepherd
Rosemary Kaye
Desperate Reader
Fame by May Sinclair
Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
High Wages by Dorothy Whipple
On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Not So Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith
Such fun! Roll on tomorrow!!! :D
I won’t join in this time but will be interested to read all the reviews
I like the photo of the library. I just read a delightful book published in 1940, a decade off. Enjoy your event.
Thanks Terra! I do like this shot a lot.
I just finished “Very Good, Jeeves” by PG Woodhouse. Got pretty tired of it by the time I was done. Not a success. Then I picked up “The Little Engine that Could ” by Watty Piper. Very cute, definitely 1930s, and interesting that the helpful engines were female and the unhelpful engines were male! Typical ! 😀
Was that your first Wodehouse? I’m sorry you didn’t like it – I love anything by him, but I can understand he wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea.
I’ve just started reading Angel Pavement by J.B. Priestley. It has 613 pages so I doubt if I’ll manage anything else, but I’ve read a lot of 1930 books in the past and I’ll link to those too in a blogpost.
Enjoyed but did not love The Diary of a Provincial Lady but I will take Simon’s advice and read the next in the series. I meant to read Vile Bodies but ran out of time.
https://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2019/10/diary-of-provincial-lady-by-em.html
Read Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse. Posted a review at: bookconscious.wordpress.com/2019/10/14/narcissus-and-goldmund-by-hermann-hesse/ So glad you popped in at bookconscious and that I saw your #1930club. Thanks! Deb aka bookconscious.
I read and loved Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham. Here’s my review:
https://harrietdevine.typepad.com/harriet_devines_blog/2019/10/cakes-and-ale-by-w-somerset-maugham-1930-club.html
I read and loved Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham. Here’s my review:
https://harrietdevine.typepad.com/harriet_devines_blog/2019/10/cakes-and-ale-by-w-somerset-maugham-1930-club.html
I read and enjoyed the old English kid lit classic, Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930). My review is here. Enjoy!
https://onemorepage.blog/2018/04/18/swallows-and-amazons-arthur-ransome-1930/
(You can’t do links in the comments? Are am I being dense?)
I re-read Agatha Christie’s Murder at the Vicarage – had forgotten how good she is. https://thebooktrunkblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/murder-at-the-vicarage/
I read As I Lay Dying – it was an experience! http://ruthiellareads.blogspot.com/2019/10/as-i-lay-dying-1930club.html
I have read It Walks by Night – my first book by John Dickson Carr:
https://shereadsnovels.com/2019/10/15/it-walks-by-night-by-john-dickson-carr-1930club/
I have another one to add! The Weatherhouse, it’s absolutely worth the effort http://desperatereader.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-weatherhouse-nan-shepherd-1930club.html
Due to gross inefficiency on my part, I am re-reading things – hope that is OK! Anyway, The Prvovincial Lady is worth reading again! https://thebooktrunkblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/the-diary-of-a-provincial-lady/
I’m reading Angel Pavement at the moment. I’ve posted reviews of previous 1930 reads though. https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2019/10/15/the-1930-club/
Just posted:
1930 CLUB: Le Bal by Irène Némirovsky: https://bookjotter.com/2019/10/17/1930-club-le-bal-by-irene-nemirovsky/
I reviewed The Secret of the Old Clock, the launch of a classic – Nancy Drew’s first case!
https://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-secret-of-old-clock-by-carolyn.html
I’ve done a very brief review of 1066 and All That, because I felt someone should, and I love this mixed-yo view of history, and it makes me laugh out loud whenever I read it.https://thebooktrunkblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/19/1066-and-all-that/
Hi Simon,
I’ve read Civilization and Its Discontents by Freud: https://brieferthanliteralstatement.blogspot.com/2019/10/civilization-and-its-discontents.html
thanks,
Victoria
I posted a review of ‘Second Harvest’ by Jean Giono.
I reread Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers. Thank you so much to both you and Karen for this week. It’s been a wonderful push to reread some old favourites and I’ve loved seeing what everyone else has chosen to read.
I read Angel Pavement by J.B. Priestley.
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2019/10/21/angel-pavement-by-j-b-priestley-the-1930-club/