The 1920 Club kicks off tomorrow – what better way to spend a Bank Holiday Monday, if you have such a thing?
Put links to your reviews on this post, and I’ll round them all up at the end of the week.
And if you have any suggestions for which club year Karen and I should do next, let us know that too.
Happy reading…
The Master Man by Ruby M. Ayres
The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold
Call Mr Fortune by H.C. Bailey
Mary Rose, A Play in Three Acts by J.M. Barrie
Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson
The Princess of the School by Angela Brazil
Development by Bryher
R.U.R by Karel Capek
Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather
What Cathy Read Next
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Cheri by Colette
Tension by E.M. Delafield
The Heel of Achilles by E.M. Delafield
The Top of the World by Ethel M. Dell
Penny Plain by O. Douglas
Adventures in Reading, Running, and Working from Home
The Cut-Glass Bowl by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
In Chancery by John Galsworthy
Wandering by Hermann Hesse
The Farcical History of Richard Greenow by Aldous Huxley
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
The Doom That Came to Sarnath by H. P. Lovecraft
Potterism by Rose Macaulay
What Next? by Denis Mackail
Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield
The Wind Blows by Katherine Mansfield
Psychology by Katherine Mansfield
The Stepmother by A.A. Milne
If I May by A.A. Milne
Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
Every Man for Himself by Hopkins Moorhouse
The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset
In The Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Black Grippe by Edgar Wallace
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts
Stories by Virginia Woolf
Essays by Virginia Woolf
Heh, looks like I might be first cab off the rank, because it’s not tomorrow here in Oz, it’s today!
Here’s my review of The Black Grippe by Edgar Wallace: https://anzlitlovers.com/2020/04/13/the-black-grippe-by-edgar-wallace/
It will be tomorrow in an hour and half here in California and I am also getting a headstart with posting my review of In Chancery by John Galsworthy: http://ruthiellareads.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-1920-club-in-chancery-by-john.html
Sadly I don’t think I’ll have time to read This Side of Paradise this week, the only book I’ve found on my shelves, but I may be able to find a Fitzgerald short story…
Oh, count me in! Having bought all the Mapp & Lucia novels by EF Benson and never read one, I will start on the first, Queen Lucia (1920). xx
Oh brilliant! And then you won’t be able to prevent yourself reading the rest…
Here is my review of The Top of the World by bestselling romance novelist Ethel M. Dell, a mostly enjoyable read:
https://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-top-of-world-by-ethel-m-dell.html
Simon, did you say where your image came from? I can’t think what it reminds me of.
I didn’t and I can’t remember! I think I just searched royalty-free 1920 images…
Looking forward to the variety that participants traditionally bring to these events. Thanks very much for hosting! Here’s my link: http://www.buriedinprint.com/how-i-met-colette-1920club/
Here’s one from me of Cheri by Colette
https://harrietdevine.typepad.com/harriet_devines_blog/2020/04/cheri-by-colette-the-1920-club.html
And here’s the link to The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton on Bookword Blog
https://www.bookword.co.uk/the-age-of-innocence-by-edith-wharton/
My contribution is The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. This is TracyK at Bitter Tea and Mystery.
https://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-mysterious-affair-at-styles-agatha.html
My contribution is The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. This is TracyK at Bitter Tea and Mystery. I tried adding my link and the comment did not show up.
Thanks!! My spam filter is being over sensitive – I’ve restored your other comment.
I read Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. http://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2020/04/karel-capeks-rur-1920club.html
I chose a short story by Katherine Mansfield – Miss Brill
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com/2020/04/miss-brill-katherine-mansfield-short.html
Here is the link to my review of Angela Brazil’s ‘The Princess of the School’:
https://sconesandchaiseslongues.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-princess-of-school-by-angela-brazil.html
my first contribution for 1920:
The Great Impersonation by E.P. Oppenheim
https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/the-1920-club-e-p-oppenheims-the-great-impersonation/
I also read The Great Impersonation for Staircase Wit
https://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-great-impersonation-by-e-phillips.html
Another take on “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” by Agatha Christie:
https://booktapestry.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-debut-of-m-hercule-poirot.html
Here are my thoughts on “The Cut-Glass Bowl” by F Scott Fitzgerald:
https://lovebooksreadbooks.com/2020/04/16/the-cut-glass-bowl-by-f-scott-fitzgerald-1920club/
Enjoyed this thank you 😀
My thoughts on J.M. Barrie’s play, Mary Rose.
https://relevantobscurity.com/2020/04/16/the-1920-club-mary-rose/
A strong debut: The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts
https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/forgotten-book-of-1920-the-cask-by-freeman-wills-crofts/
I finished In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim and really enjoyed it. It was surprisingly timely.
Here’s a link: https://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.com/2020/04/1920-club-in-mountains-by-elizabeth-von.html
Here is my review of Queen Lucia by EF Benson. A perfect choice!
https://shereadsnovels.com/2020/04/18/queen-lucia-by-e-f-benson-1920club/
I don’t think I’ve ever been organised enough to join in one of your reading year clubs before, but I have followed them with interest and this week actually managed to read two eligible books:
The Mysterious Affair At Styles:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3278202437
Voyage To Arcturus:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3278202853
And finally, Further Chronicles of Avonlea, one of L.M. Montgomery’s short story collections:
https://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2020/04/further-chronicles-of-avonlea-by-lm.html
Now back to Edith Wharton about which I rashly promised to lead a discussion to divert people in my office. I didn’t think anyone would really accept!
I was fascinated by this idea of joint book blogging about a set year! I quickly decided to participate, and chose a German book I had been meaning to read, Storm of Steel, a war memoir about the trench warfare in World War One, by Ernst Jünger. Here is my review!
https://kinshipofallspecies.wordpress.com/2020/04/19/storm-of-steel-1920/
Thank you for this initiative Simon and Karen!
I read ‘The Great Impersonation’ which was ultimately fun despite some dodgy attitudes and a bonkers plot. https://desperatereader.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-great-impersonation-e-phillips.html
Thanks for the encouragement to read some classics! https://bookishbeck.wordpress.com/2020/04/19/1920club-classics-of-the-month-agatha-christie-and-f-scott-fitzgerald/
Here’s a wonderful discovery. A Christmas Classic:
From the Vast Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes
https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/2020/04/19/the-1920-club-from-the-vast-deep-by-marie-belloc-lowndes/
Thanks for hosting the event. Looking forward to the next one.
Queen L
ucia by EF Benson
In the quiet village of Riseholme, the genteel neighbours’ lives revolve around gossip, peering out of windows and regular get togethers, presided over by Emmeline Lucas aka ‘Lucia’. Charming (mostly) when she reigns as Queen Bee, there are, nonetheless, undercurrents of irritation from the others, especially when she lures away the interesting Indian guru from the woman who ‘discovered’ him, and when her disciple Georgie starts to relish being first with a piece of news, eclipsing Lucia…
This has moments of absolute hilarity. I loved deaf Mrs Antrobus “presenting her (ear) trumpet to him in the manner in which an elephant presents its trunk to receive a bun”.
Lucia is a total phoney, her ‘impromptu’ events carefully rehearsed; the Italian she affects to speak with her amenable spouse actually just a few trite phrases. And when an opera singer comes to live in the village, it seems she may have been usurped.
Comic novels are a bit like fruit cake- enjoyable now and then. So I shan’t be going straight off to read the sequels…I need a bit of seriousness first. But very enjoyable.
Read for Stuck in a Book’s 1920 Club.
Thanks for hosting and linking, Simon. Just found this TLS article, maybe you’d like to let them know about the 1920 Club? :)
I’ve done Penny Plain now – am I too late to have my link added? https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/book-review-o-douglas-penny-plain-1920club/ I did really enjoy it, so thank you anyway!
Simon, someone emailed me that my link stopped working for the Great Impersonation. Not sure why but I fixed it, if you have a chance to edit: https://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-great-impersonation-by-e-philips.html
Thanks for the much needed distraction!
Constance