For those who like reminders – here is your reminder that the 1976 Club is only a month away! Karen and I will be asking everyone to read and review books published across the world in 1976.
I’ve been looking through my possibles – not all that many, and fewer when I checked them and realised a couple were mis-dated in my LibraryThing catalogue. But I have two or three books up my sleeve, and I look forward to seeing what everyone else picks.
Have you chosen yours yet? If you need inspiration, having a look on Wikipedia and GoodReads might help.
Hoorah, I’ve remembered what my book was – Amanda Cross: The Question of Max.
I’m always happy to spend some time with Kate Fansler (NYC academic and amateur sleuth. Also extremely wealthy, penthouse in Manhattan, dreamboat lawyer husband…. )
Just call me shallow…
Kate Fansler isn’t shallow at all. I adore this series, they’re fiesty, intelligent &, for the time, fairly radically feminist!!
Oh I agree entirely, and I love them. I just meant my jealousy of Kate’s comfortable lifestyle!
I first read Amanda Cross as a student, and the books of hers that I have are still treasured possessions. My very favourite is No Word From Winifred, possibly because it was my first, but also because Winifred was such an interesting character (even though, if I remember rightly, she’s never seen in person.)
Carolyn Heilbrun was an interesting woman.
Hurrah! I started off with a small pool of books, but it’s been expanding a little and I *am* trying to draw from works already on the TBR. We shall see!!
Being of the era I’ve already read a lot of the suggestions on Wikipedia but, having discovered the marvellous central Oxford library service has a copy stashed away, it’s “The Allure of Chanel” by Paul Morand for me!!
I have one of the much-neglected Helen MacInnes’ spy novels I’ve not read before lined up, Agent in Place.
I’m even worse at meeting deadlines than writing reviews but — I do have a candidate lined up! Since I read it last February, however, I’ll practically have to read it again but . . . we’ll see. Regardless I do love your “year” events and greatly enjoy seeing the various picks!
I’m going to read Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje:)
So wonderful to have a new year featured. Thanks for hosting
These days, I focus on my TBR. I currently have there 2 books published in 1976. They are short, so I’m planning to read: Speedboat, by Renata Adler; and A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean
I’m planning four books for this one and have read one already. I am working on the second.
I have two The Plantagenet Prelude by Jean Plaidy is the most likely. I put up my post of what I’ve already read (it’s linked here). I really love doing these, so thank you for hosting them!
I’m in! I should probably read The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by Steinbeck, as it’s sitting on my shelf unread, but I will probably read Speedboat by Renata Adler. Or maybe I’ll do a throwback to my mystery-loving days and reread In the Frame by Dick Francis.
I had a small list of possibilities picked already and just added one more to that list. But I appreciate the reminder because I need to start on one of them soon.
Some other suggestions:
Legend in Green Velvet – Elizabeth Peters;
Dragonsong – Anne Mccaffery;
Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet – Harry Kemelman ;
The Shattered Chain – Marion Zimmer Bradley
; Sleeping Murder – Agatha Christie (published in 1976, but apparently
written during WWII and saved in case Christie had been killed during the
war)
Slapstick – Vonnegut
or
Fringe of Leaves – Patrick White
or
Roots – Haley (its huge)
I’m reading Roots with a group of three others, 30 chapters a week, not too late to join in! Get in touch if you’d like to!
Are you linking the posts to a group somewhere? I am running out of time, not sure I can read Roots so quickly (working 40-50 hours a week from home) but I would love to read the comments and evaluations. Thanks.
When we start the week, Karen and I will both have posts where we’re encouraging people to post links to their reviews :)
I have The Girls From the Five Great Valleys by Elizabeth Savage
Marge Piercy’s “Woman on the Edge of Time” is one of my favorite books, and it’s been a long time since I’ve read it all the way through, rather than dipping into beloved bits. So I’m going to cheat a bit and reread rather than read-read. Appropriate for a novel about time travel, anyway!
I’m horrified to discover that I’ve not read any book published in 1976. It was my first year in university so all I can think of is that I was too busy partying to do any reading!!
I didn’t buy any books either because I don’t have a single 1976 book in my TBR.
I’m planning on reading Speed Boat by Renata Adler.
I’m in! Not quite sure what my speacial read will be, but it was a good year for fiction. Caroline Bloackwoodf’s The Stepdaughter, perhaps? Or Marge Piercy’s Woman opn the Edge of Time (which i found hugely influential when I read it last century)? Also Maxine Hong Kingston’s Warrior Woman (have i even still got my copy?).The incomprable Raymond Carver’s short stories Will You Please be Quiet, Please?
Then there’s Buchi Emecheta’s bride Price and Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet. And all the others mentioned in the comments above!
Looking forward to it. Caroline (Bookword)
Apologies – so excited that I missed several typos:
special, Blackwood, Woman on the Edge of Time,
Check your messages Caroline! Check them.
I’m reading Roots, started it already, 30 chapters a week, reading with three others. It’s absorbing and good so far and I’m up to Chapter 31 …
I decided to read Marge Piercy’s feminist SF time-travel classic, Woman on the Edge of Time. It’s a great excuse to get it read at last after literal decades on my TBR-because-recommended list/pile/guilt-inducing oubliette.
I’m going to read Richard Yates’ The Easter Parade because it has been on my bookshelf for years. In fact, I may have read it years ago, but I don’t remember anything about it! I hope it is less depressing than Revolutionary Road.
I have read it and don’t remember masses of details, but I don’t think it’s super cheery…
LAMY of SANTA FE is the first of three I ordered for this so that’s where I’ll be starting. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, chosen because I used to live in New Mexico a bajillion years ago.
I’ve missed others that you’ve hosted, but planning to take part this time – I’ll be reading Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor