Thanks so much for all your wonderful contributions to the 1965 Club! Any latecomers welcome – I’ll add any remaining reviews to the list, though it might be a bit delayed. And thanks as always to my wonderful co-host Karen!
Karen and I had a chat about to do for the next club, in October, and we’ve plumped for 1930. We haven’t done any beginning-of-a-decade years yet, and there are quite a few big hitters you can turn to if needed. And I’ll almost certainly be re-reading Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield for the zillionth time…
You have six months to think about it, of course. We look forward to seeing all the contributions then – the new badge we’ll be using is to the right.
Great – I am really enjoying this. I’ll be going through my shelves this week to see what I’ve got from 1930 (love The Diary of a Provincial Lady!).
In the meantime I’m going slightly off the #projectname piste to read a review copy of The Nature of Spring by my very favourite nature writer, Jim Crumley, who effortlessly combines thoughts on nature, art, architecture and jazz in his wonderful books about Scottish wildlife.
It’s been a fun week, hasn’t it Simon? And 1930 is a very promising choice – here’s to six months’ time! :)
I just checked my copy of Diary of a Provincial Lady, and the copyright is 1931!
The British publication was 1930. I think the 1931 is for the US edition.
phew!
I love the 1930s! I’ve already started a list of possible reads:
– Imperial Palace by Arnold Bennett
– East Wind, West Wind by Pearl S. Buck
– Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
– Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer
– Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
– The Ball by Irene Nemirovsky
– Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestly
– After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
Thanks again for organizing it, I’m looking forward to it already!
Oo great selection. I’ve only read the Christie, but lots to tempt there.
Thanks so much for co-hosting another great Club. As ever, it’s been fun to participate and to see the diversity of books covered across the week, a snapshot of a time of great change. .
I’m delighted to hear you’re going back to the 1930s for the next one – good call! Funnily enough, I’ve been dipping in and out of a big fat collection of The Provincial Lady recently. Such fun, so enjoyable and pithy! Maybe I’ll save any write-up for the next Club.
Hurrah! I love the PL so much.
Well, my search on goodreads turned up some old favourites…perhaps most notably for me, and surprising, “The Secret of the Old Clock” (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #1, pub. 1930) which probably is to blame for turning me into into a voracious reader at about age 9!!! Not great literature, but the first spell-binding book I ever read! I was hooked. So many great children’s books in that list.. (former teacher-librarian) and other adult classics.
Oh perfect! It’s always fun to look back at those books that make us into the readers we are.
I discover I’ve already read most of the big-hitters I own, but I’m sure I can find another book to read for this! :)
I believe in you!
I never read Swallows and Amazons as a child (or yet, in fact) so that’s definitely one I’m going to do. Other than that, it looks like a great year for crime: Sayers, Allingham, Christie, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen and the Saint and Nancy Drew!
I only read Swallows and Amazons for the first time a few years ago, and loved it – though prepare yourself for a lot of sailing terminology!
Brilliant. I’ve already decided on High Wages, Swallows and Amazons, Angel Pavement and a Strong Poison re-read if I have the time. I have all of those ones, but I fancy The Maltese Falcon too, but don’t have it. I need longer than a week I think!
Oo that is a very strong line up!
Sounds like fun – must see what vintage crime I can dig up for that year!
What a different decade we’ll find ourselves in then! Quite a few good VMCs as options there – looking forward to it!
Thanks for hosting!
Thanks! Yes, 1930 is much more my comfort zone :)