Hope you’re getting ready to pull those 1965 titles off the shelf! Karen and I will be running the #1965Club from 22-28 April – feel free to use the badge below.
For the uninitiated – every six months, Karen and I get readers across the internet to read books published in the same year, and we put together all the reviews to create an idea of what the scope of the literary year was. Post your reviews on your blog, LibraryThing, GoodReads, Instagram, wherever – in the comments of our blog posts, if you don’t have anywhere else – and put the link on our announcement posts. Once the week is over, I’ll do a round up here (and Karen is usually better than me at keeping track of all the reviews!)
If you’re in need of ideas, the Wiki page is a useful starting point – or take a look at the books I own from 1965! I’ve got three lined up that all have names in the title, killing two birds with one stone by incorporating #ProjectNames.
Happy selecting, and join us in a few weeks when the club starts properly!
I thought I was being very organised for this only to discover the book I had lined up was written 10 years earlier. Sigh. So. So it’s a matter of relying on whatever the library can offer….
Ooh, I am so glad that you mentioned this Simon, as I am indeed one of the uninitiated – I’d seen the 1965 thing referred to on other blogs but didn’t really know what (or when) it was.
Just looked at your list and I actually have some of those books – though I’m tempted to get the Mrs Harris one, as I’ve loved the others in that series and, as you say, they’ve got a name in the title!
I already have The Town in Bloom, The L-Shaped Room (read), At Bertram’s Hotel (can’t remember if read or not), The Millstone, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and The Mandelbaum Gate. I’d probably choose the Dodie Smith from those.
Have just finished Fludd and have come to the conclusion I just don’t get on with these types of novels. It has many 5* reviews, and it is Hilary Mantel after all, but I struggle with the weirdness. I have to confess I have the same problem with some Penelope Fitzgerald novels.
I am currently unpacking my collection of children’s books (mine and my children’s) – so much to enjoy there. Some remind me of my own babies (Doctor Dog and Oliver’s Vegetables) but many more remind me of my own (Enid Blyton, Sue Dore Boylston and my beloved Eve Garnetts). I must check to see if any of those fit the 1965 list.
I’m going to read Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya (transl Aline Werth). Chukovskaya was an editor, writer, and heroic friend to the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova during the Stalin Terror. This novella was circulated in MS form as samizdat i.e. underground literature after Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin, but the book was not actually published until 1967 when it became available in English. So I think it counts!
So looking forward to this Simon- there are so many books to choose from! :D
Oh God, DUNE! Nooooo!
I haven’t got any on the TBR so I’m going to hold firm and not take part as I need to winnow it. I have a 1956 and a 1966, very frustratingly! Enjoy, and I’ll enjoy seeing all the reviews – I might send you a link to my Iris Murdoch’s The Red and the Green review as I read that last year, if that’s OK?
Really looking forward to this Simon, I have six books to choose from with titles from Muriel Spark, Dodie Smith, Mary Hocking, Daphne Du Maurier, Pamela Hansford Johnson and Ann Bridge . I shall try to read at least two, though if I start early (such is my enthusiasm) three is possible if I don’t get distracted by other books.
Count me in, Simon! I am going to read one of my Classics Club titles: Sofia Petrovna, by Lydia Chukovskaya :)
Luckily I’ve found something on my shelves that was published in 1965, so hopefully that will fit. Thanks once again for co-hosting this – your club weeks are always great fun!
1965 was the year of “The Red and the Green” – the only novel by Iris Murdoch that I have not read.
Hope you enjoy that one! Murdoch fiend here, so I’ve read it four times …
I’m definitely in–I’ve got about ten 1965 books on the TBR stacks (listed HERE. We’ll see how many I can squeeze in.
I have The Town in Bloom and The Flight of the Falcon (which I could also save for Daphne du Maurier reading week). I could also get Frederica by Georgette Heyer via e-book if I have time. Looking forward to it!