I hope you’re excited to kick off The 1924 Club fortnight! (For those who’ve missed it: we’re asking everyone to read books publishing in 1924, to get an overview of the year across the blogosphere.) This post is where I’ll be gathering reviews – so do pop your links in the comments whenever they’re ready. (Karen will doubtless have another round-up post, of course – I’m writing this late at night on Sunday, so not sure!) (She has! It’s here.)
Don’t forget, we’re also gathering up reviews that you’ve already got. To encourage the spirit of the thing, I’m putting reviews for this fortnight up top, and older reviews below. My first review should come tomorrow…
This fortnight so far…
Sherwood Anderson – A Story Teller’s Story
Intermittencies of the Mind
Michael Arlen – The Green Hat
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Sir Henry Howarth Bashford – Augustus Carp Esq by himself
Anonymous (see full review in the comments below)
Nancy Boyd – Distressing Dialogues
Monica’s Bookish Life
John Buchan – The Three Hostages
I Prefer Reading
Desperate Reader
John Buchan – John Macnab
Pining for the West
Agatha Christie – Poirot Investigates
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Harriet Devine
Colette – The Other Woman
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Arthur Conan Doyle – 3 stories from The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Books Please
Freeman Wills Crofts – Inspector French’s Greatest Case
Bag Full of Books
O. Douglas – Pink Sugar
Peggy Ann’s Post
Lord Dunsany – The King of Elfland’s Daughter
A Gallimaufry
Annabel’s House of Books
E.M. Forster – A Passage to India
Other Formats Are Available
R. Austin Freeman – ‘The Art of the Detective Story’
Past Offences
George Herriman – ‘Krazy Kat: Shed a Soft Mongolian Tear’
Intermittencies of the Mind
Winifred Holtby – The Crowded Street
Other Formats are Available
Book Musings (on Instagram)
Franz Kafka – The Hunger Artist
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Margaret Kennedy – The Constant Nymph
Other Formats Are Available
Dezső Kosztolányi – Skylark
Rough Ghosts
H.P. Lovecraft – ‘The Rats in the Walls’
Intermittencies of the Mind
Denis Mackail
The Majestic Mystery
Katherine Mansfield – Something Childish and other stories
Simon at Vulpes Libris
F.M. Mayor – The Rector’s Daughter
Heavenali
A.A. Milne – When We Were Very Young
I Prefer Reading
George Moore – Conversations in Ebury Street
Stuck in a Book
Baroness Orczy – Pimpernel and Rosemary
I Prefer Reading
T.F. Powys – Mark Only
Stuck in a Book
C.C. Rogers – Cornish Silhouettes
Beyond Eden Rock
Vita Sackville-West – Seducers in Ecuador
Heavenali
Adventures in Reading, Writing, and Working From Home
Arnold Schnitzler – Fraulein Else
1streading
Edgar Wallace – The Face in the Night
A Hot Cup of Pleasure
Edith Wharton – New Years Day
Books as Food
Virginia Woolf – 1924 diary entry
Stuck in a Book
P.C. Wren – Beau Geste
She Reads Novels
Eugene Zamyatin – We
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Shoshi’s Book Blog
3 Soviet Short Stories
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Older reviews
Michael Arlen – The Green Hat
Stuck in a Book
Clothes in Books
Ruby M Ayres – Ribbons and Laces
Clothes in Books
Karel Čapek – Letters from England
Stuck in a Book
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Agatha Christie – The Man in the Brown Suit
BooksPlease
Clothes in Books
O. Douglas – Pink Sugar
Stuck in a Book
I Prefer Reading
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Cruise of the Rolling Junk
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
Ford Madox Ford – Parade’s End vol.1 Some Do Not
Clothes in Books
E.M. Forster – A Passage to India
Heavenali
Ronald Fraser – The Flying Draper
Stuck in a Book
John Galsworthy – The White Monkey
Heavenali
Adventures in Reading, Writing, and Working from Home
David Garnett – A Man in the Zoo
Annabel’s House of Books
Stuck in a Book
Winifred Holtby – The Crowded Street
Heavenali
Adventures in Reading, Writing, and Working from Home
Margaret Kennedy – The Constant Nymph
Heavenali
She Reads Novels
Clothes in Books
Dezső Kosztolányi – Skylark
Stuck in a Book
The Captive Reader
F.M. Mayor – The Rector’s Daughter
Harriet Devine
Adventures in Reading, Writing, and Working from Home
Joseph Roth – Hotel Savoy
Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
G.B. Stern – The Matriarch
Clothes in Books
P.C. Wren – Beau Geste
Clothes in Books
Eugene Zamyatin – We
Annabel’s House of Books
So I plan to post my first 1924 review on Thursday.
In the meantime here are some bold reviews:
The Crowded Street
https://heavenali.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/the-crowded-street-winifred-holtby-1924/
A Passage to India
https://heavenali.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/a-passage-to-india-e-m-forster-1924/
The Constant Nymph https://heavenali.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/the-constant-nymph-margaret-kennedy-1924/
The White Monkey
https://heavenali.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/the-white-monkey-john-galsworthy-1924/
Thanks so much, Ali! I’ve put them in the post :)
Excellent – here we go! I’ve done a separate page for collecting reviews (I’m not very techie and this seemed more manageable) – it’s here:
https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/the-1924-club/
Here we go indeed! Exciting!
First review now up, Forster’s “A Passage to India”
https://otherformatsavailable.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/1924-book-club-e-m-forster-a-passage-to-india/
Brilliant David, thank you! A really interesting review.
Here’s the link to my review of The Man in the Brown suit by Agatha Christie, first posted in 2011 – http://www.booksplease.org/2011/04/15/the-man-in-the-brown-suit-by-agatha-christie-book-review/
Currently I’m reading some of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Shelock Holmes short stories – my post will be up later this week.
Excellent, thanks Margaret! I didn’t realise any Holmes came out in 1924 – wonderful :)
I’m reading Sherwood Anderson’s A Story Teller’s Story at the moment and if I have time may try and squeeze a couple more in. I guess that short stories are ok as well?
Absolutely they are, Jonathan!
I’m not doing well with my reading — had to abandon Christie’s The Man in the Brown Suit because I thought it was too silly and confusing. But here’s a review I wrote in 2011 of a novel that I’d forgotten, but sounds wonderful! http://harrietdevine.typepad.com/harriet_devines_blog/2011/03/the-rectors-daughter.html
Thanks Harriet! I have read this, but remember so little about it.
I read John Buchan’s John Macnab and you can read what I thought about it here.http://piningforthewest.co.uk/2015/10/13/john-macnab-by-john-buchan/
Thanks so much Katrina!
Likely the only book I will manage for this challenge though I have another in mind to cross over with German lit month. My review of Skylark is up at https://roughghosts.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/the-heartbreak-of-a-parents-love-skylark-by-dezso-kosztolanyi/
And a brilliant novel it is too! Thanks JMS :)
Simon, I’ve reviewed an updated Scarlet Pimpernel novel by Baroness Orczy set in Hungary, Pimpernel & Rosemary.
http://tinyurl.com/nawa7z5
A brilliant choice, Lyn!
I previously read two – I know – I was amazed too…..
We by Zamyatin http://www.annabookbel.net/2013/06/30/inspired-1984-orwell-we-yevgeny-zamyatin/
A Man in the Zoo by David Garnett – http://www.annabookbel.net/2013/03/13/finding-ones-inner-animal/
Haha! This *is* a surprise ;)
AUGUSTUS CARP ESQ BY HIMSELF, Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
By Sir Henry Howarth Bashford
This is one of the funniest ever books, so I was pleased to have an excuse to re-read it for thew 1924 club.
The book is narrated by the priggish, self-satisfied, unattractive Augustus – acutely aware of others’ failings, but ever on the alert to use them to his own advantage. One gets a clear picture of our ‘hero’ in the first paragraph, when he explains the need for the ‘higher example’ of his book in this wicked age “When mature women, the mothers of unhappy children, enter the sea in one-piece bathing costumes, and when married men, the heads of households, prefer the flicker of the cinematograph to the Athanasian Creed.”
Bashford’s writing is superb, the language conveying such a vivid impression of the pompous character. Thus when his (equally pompous) father gets into an argument with their charwoman after dealing her son a blow (“dividing the integument of his forehead”), Augustus describes the woman’s actions:
“I beheld Mrs O’Flaherty thrusting my father’s head into her pail. It was a commodious pail, very nearly full with incompletely clean water, and containing in addition the saturate garment with which it was her habit to wash the linoleum.”
Augustus proves singularly unpopular at school, both with the boys he reports and with the masters through his demeanour:
“When our form-master, a Mr Muglington, asked me if I knew the capital of Belgium, I replied that while I had not as yet enjoyed the opportunity of paying the town a personal visit, I had been credibly informed that it was known as Brussels, so indissolubly associated with the well-known brassica.”
And meanwhile his proud, sternly Anglican father is – after a series of disagreements – transferring his worship from the Church of James the Less to that of James- the-Lesser-Still and ultimately James-the-Least-of-all.
Mother is a poor cowed creature, her life spent serving her husband and son:
“After every such exhibition of pristine vigour, however, my father experienced an acute reaction, and for many weeks would become a martyr not only to neurasthenic indigestion but to digestive neurasthenia accompanied by flatulence of the severest order. For months on end, indeed, my mother would be obliged to sit by his bedside in case he should wake up and require abdominal kneading.”
The author was Hon Physician to King George VI, and entertaining ailments pepper the work, from Simeon Whey’s stutter (“kck”) to Charity and Understanding, but for whose “slight impediments in their noses the whole house would have been wrapped in the profoundest stillness.”
In short, a hilarious book – much funnier than the better known “Diary of a Nobody” – and one I would recommend to all.
Wonderful review; thanks so much! If funnier than Diary of a Nobody, then I’m intrigued.
Ok! My first 1924 post is on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story, The Rats in the Walls. I haven’t read all the other posts yet but those I have read have been very interesting. It’s amazing how much variety there is.
Thanks Jonathan! So much variety, indeed.
I’ve just finished reading Beau Geste by P.C. Wren and have posted my review here:
https://shereadsnovels.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/beau-geste-by-p-c-wren/
I have one older review as well – The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy.
https://shereadsnovels.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/the-constant-nymph-by-margaret-kennedy/
Wonderful; thanks Helen!
Second review now done for Margaret Kennedy’s “The Constant Nymph”
https://otherformatsavailable.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/margaret-kennedy-the-constant-nymph/
Thanks David! I believe this was the bestselling book of 1924, so I really must read it one day…
Here’s my post on three stories from The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. they were previously published in periodicals in 1924.
http://www.booksplease.org/2015/10/26/the-case-book-of-sherlock-holmes-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/
Thanks Margaret! A brilliant idea. I had no idea Holmes was being published so late.
Old reviews from me (new review coming tonight)
The Rector’s Daughter https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/book-reviews-75/
The Crowded Street https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/book-reviews-99/
The White Monkey https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/book-reviews-the-white-monkey-and-smart-blonde-dolly-parton-plus-a-confession/
I don’t ONLY read the same books as Ali, promise …
Ha! Lovely Liz, thanks. It does sound like you guys share a library!
I’ve done a few 1924 books in my time:
The Matriarch by GB Stern http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/the-matriarch-by-gb-stern.html
The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/dress-down-sunday-constant-nymph-by.html
The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/agatha-christie-week-round-world-in.html
Beau Geste by PC Wren http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/beau-geste-by-pc-wren-part-1.html
Parade’s End Vol1: Some Do not by Ford Madox Ford http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/parades-end-some-do-not-book-1-by-ford.html
Ribbons and Laces by Ruby M Ayres (bet I’m the only person doing that one!) http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/ribbons-and-laces-by-ruby-m-ayres.html
The Green Hat by Michael Arlen http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/one-of-inspirations-for-clothes-in-books.html
A wonderful selection, thanks, and great to have an author as little read as Ayres there.
I reviewed ‘Inspector French’s Greatest Case’ for the 1924 Book Club. Here is the link
http://bagfullofbooks.com/2015/10/27/inspector-frenchs-greatest-case-by-freeman-wills-crofts/
I had tremendous fun reading it. Thank you for encouraging me to read something from the year!
Thanks Arpita!
Here’s my Agatha Christie review. http://harrietdevine.typepad.com/harriet_devines_blog/2015/10/poirot-investigates-1924-by-agatha-christie.html
Thanks Harriet! I’m glad this one was more of a success :)
I’ve done Seducers in Ecuador now, too https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/book-reviews-seducers-in-ecuador-the-heir-and-flowering-wilderness/
You and Ali really are birds of a feather :) Thanks Liz!
I reviewed ‘Inspector French’s Greatest Case’ for the 1924 Book Club. Here is the link
http://bagfullofbooks.com/2015/10/27/inspector-frenchs-greatest-case-by-freeman-wills-crofts/
Brilliant, thanks Arpita!
Hello! I’ve reviewed Distressing Dialogues by Nancy Boyd:
http://monicasbookishlife.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-1924-club-distressing-dialogues-by.html
https://otherformatsavailable.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/the-crowded-street-winifred-holtby/
My last contribution to this excellent thematic read. Which years next!
Here’s my mystery for that year:
The Face in the Night by Edgar Wallace
http://inkquilletc.blogspot.in/2015/10/forgotten-book-face-in-night-by-edgar.html
Thanks.
So, I still intend to post on what was going to be my main contribution to this event. I’m fagged out from work though. Tomorrow is the last day so I still hope to post in time :-)
I managed to read The Three Hostages this week here http://desperatereader.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/the-three-hostages-john-buchan.html?showComment=1446241175882 And am so pleased I managed to write about it in time!
I’ve posted a review of Sherwood Anderson’s A Story Teller’s Story.
I’m hoping to squeeze in another short post before the day is out.
I don’t think the link is working. Here’s the full URL: https://bulbynorman.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/a-story-tellers-story-by-sherwood-anderson/
Ok, I managed another post. This is for a Krazy Kat collection of comic strips all originally published in 1924.
I know this is late, but here is my review of The Constant Nymph. I did read it during the 1924 Club week! http://emeraldcitybookreview.com/2015/11/goddesses-in-every-woman-the-constant-nymph.html
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