The next club is announced!

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.

20 thoughts on “The next club is announced!

  • April 29, 2019 at 10:53 am
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    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.

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  • April 29, 2019 at 5:17 pm
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    I just checked my copy of Diary of a Provincial Lady, and the copyright is 1931!

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  • April 29, 2019 at 6:34 pm
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    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!

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    • May 7, 2019 at 1:59 pm
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      Oo great selection. I’ve only read the Christie, but lots to tempt there.

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  • April 29, 2019 at 6:43 pm
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    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.

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    • May 7, 2019 at 1:58 pm
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      Hurrah! I love the PL so much.

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  • April 29, 2019 at 8:36 pm
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    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.

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    • May 7, 2019 at 1:58 pm
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      Oh perfect! It’s always fun to look back at those books that make us into the readers we are.

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  • April 30, 2019 at 8:05 am
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    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! :)

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    • May 7, 2019 at 1:58 pm
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      I believe in you!

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  • April 30, 2019 at 10:34 pm
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    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!

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    • May 7, 2019 at 1:55 pm
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      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!

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  • April 30, 2019 at 11:00 pm
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    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!

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    • May 7, 2019 at 1:55 pm
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      Oo that is a very strong line up!

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  • May 9, 2019 at 1:21 am
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    Sounds like fun – must see what vintage crime I can dig up for that year!

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  • May 12, 2019 at 4:33 pm
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    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!

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    • May 13, 2019 at 9:25 am
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      Thanks! Yes, 1930 is much more my comfort zone :)

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