I hope you’ve all enjoyed the 1951 Club – and Easter. I know that I’ve really enjoyed both – it’s always so fun to see people reading such different titles across the blogosphere and elsewhere, and it’s also fun when a smaller group band together to read the same title, as happened on Instagram with My Cousin Rachel. So many reviews and different authors – thank you! Between us, we’ve built up a complex and interesting picture of 1951.
I’ve been so busy this week that I haven’t had time to seek out and round up the reviews – so I’m doing that now. Below are all the reviews I could find – if you’ve written one and I haven’t found it, let me know!
Next time – in October, we’ll be doing this all again with a year from the 1960s. Karen and I would like your suggestions – so, if you have a particular one to advocate for, let us know which year and why. We’ll put our heads together and make a choice soon.
The Loved and Envied by Enid Bagnold
Leaves and Pages
The Street by Dorothy Baker
Stuck in a Book
A Grave Case of Murder by Roger Bax
My Reader’s Block
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
Recent Items
The Bookbinder’s Daughter
Where were you, Adam? by Heinrich Böll
Lizzy Siddal
The Glass Harp by Truman Capote
Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
HeavenAli
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Monica’s Bookish Life
She Reads Novels
Darkness and Day by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Stuck in a Book
Come In Spinner by Dymphna Cusack & Florence James
Words and Leaves
Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies
Consumed by Ink
Heaven-Ali
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Lizzy Siddal
Bag Full of Books
The Emerald City Book Review
Teereads on Instagram
The Quarry by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Death Has Deep Roots by Michael Gilbert
I Prefer Reading
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Annabel’s House of Books
The Well at the World’s End by Neil Gunn
1st Reading
The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein
Booked For Life
The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer
I Prefer Reading
Desperate Reader
Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer
She Reads Novels
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
What Me Read
Intermittencies of the Mind
The Age of Longing by Arthur Koestler
Lesser-Known Gems
Murder Comes Front by Frances & Richard Lockridge
My Reader’s Block
A Mouse is Born by Anita Loos
Lesser-Known Gems
I Could Murder Her by E.C.R. Lorac
My Reader’s Block
The Woman Surgeon by L Martindale
Briefer Than Literal Statement
School for Love by Olivia Manning
Jacqui Wine’s Journal
Stuck in a Book
Books and Chocolate
HeavenAli
Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh
Stuck in a Book
Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima
Lesser-Known Gems
The Devil’s Elbow by Gladys Mitchell
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
The Blessing by Nancy Mitford
Pining for the West
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
My Bookstrings
Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols
Stuck in a Book
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes ed. Iona and Peter Opie
Kate Macdonald
Lost Children by Edith Pargeter
Briefer Than Literal Statement
A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell
Hard Book Habit
Fabia by Olive Higgins Prouty
Joie de Livre
The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Memories of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge
Lesser Known Gems
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Lise Lillywhite by Margery Sharp
Beyond Eden Rock
Maigret’s Memoirs by Simenon
Lizzy Siddal
Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife by Simenon
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
The Teahouse of the August Moon by Vern Sneider
Bookprint on Instagram
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
Ink Stains on a Reader’s Blog
A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
Harriet Devine
Madame Bibilophile Recommends
The Blank Garden
The Indextrious Reader
The Book Satchel
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Staircase Wit
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Bookertalk
Harriet Devine
Lady Fancifull
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Intermittencies of the Mind
The Invisible Collection & Buchmendel by Stefan Zweig
Desperate Reader
Hasn’t it been fun Simon? So many good books and interesting reviews from everyone! I’m looking forward to the 1960s and I can’t actually say at the moment which year I favour – it will be interesting to see what the eventual choice is! :)
What a wealth of reviews and what a variety! I will have to slowly make my way through all of them. I hope to have more time and participate next time around.
Thanks Simon, it’s been a fun week as with previous ‘year reads’. I’m just reading through as many of the reviews as I can at the moment as there were quite a few I missed during the week
Thanks Simon. Can I suggest 1960 for October? Mostly because culturally I think the 50s and 60s are thought of as if they were miles apart and some huge cosmic switch was flicked at midnight 31st December 1959, but the shift must have been much more gradual in reality..
Off to read some reviews now,
Victoria H
Mine is late! My apologies but I enjoyed participating: http://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2017/04/all-of-kind-family-book-review.html
This list always gives me lots of reading ideas. So sad that this year I was only able to contribute one review.
Wow! What a varied bunch of reviews. I’ll enjoy going through them. These readalong are such a brilliant concept.
My vote for the next one is for 1962.
I also vote for 1962 — so many books I want to read from that year! And thanks again for hosting, it’s been fun.
Many thanks for co-hosting such a fab week of reading, Simon. I’m still working my way through the reviews as well, so much to catch up with!
Thanks to you and Karen for hosting again, Simon. It’s good to see that so many people have taken part and read such a wide variety of books!
Thanks for hosting this with Karen. I’m really glad I finally joined you. Fining such a lovely book was so rewarding.
You’re skirting dangerously close to the modern era Simon with the 1960s. : ) I vote for 1965.
I know, right! We’re even thinking about the 1970s next :O
Are we allowed to submit older reviews? My problem with this year was that I had jumped the gun and already read all the books I wanted to read for this year!
Tempest-Tost from 2015 https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/book-reviews-tempest-tost-and-the-road-to-middlemarch/
The End of the Affair from 2011 https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/graham-greene-the-end-of-the-affair/
A Game of Hide and Seek from 2012 https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/elizabeth-taylor/
In 1964 Saul Bellow published “Herzog”, that’s a very good reason to chose that year I think! You also have novesl by Burroughs, Fleming, de Beauvoir, Deighton, Murdoch etc to chose from too.
I am very late to the party. Thank you for hosting such an excellent meme. I am off to read other’s reviews now.