“That means you’ll simply be deleted.” #TheTrial #Kafka #GLM2025 #NovNov25
One of the books I had lined up as a possibility for our #1925Club was a big hitter from that year - "The Trial" by Franz Kafka. It's a book which I don't think I've read since my early twenties, and although the concept remains clear in my mind, the detail has definitely gone! However, although I ran out of time for the Club, it was still on my radar, and when I was up in London in October I…
#1925Club – the ones that got away – plus what comes next!
What a wonderful seven days of club reading it's been! It's been such fun spending our 10th anniversary reading week exploring books from 1925 and I personally really enjoyed the volumes I chose. Thanks to everyone who's joined in and taken part, sharing your thoughts on an incredible range of books. There were so many titles that were new to me, and it was particularly interesting to see which books turned out…
“You know what an inconstant person I am…” #Proust #thefugitive #1925Club
My final read for our 10th Anniversary Club is a book I've been keen to get onto, and in fact is the third book I've read this year by the author: "The Fugitive" by Marcel Proust, the penultimate volume in his Remembrance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time sequence. I've been gradually making my way through these over the years, and it's not been a fast process; I started with "Swann's Way"…
“…we were unmistakable in a land where there are no strangers!” #1925Club
I had a notable failure for our most recent reading week, earlier in the year (the #1952Club - oh look, the last two numerals are the reverse of this month's club!) The book in question was "Mirror to Russia" by Marie Noele Kelly, which I found to be a real struggle with the author's bias spoiling my reading of it.
“There are lives to be lived if only you didn’t care.” #1925Club
As I've probably mentioned before, I always like to use our Club Reading Weeks as an excuse to dig in the stacks and see what unread volumes I have from the year in question. For 1925, there were a surprising number of options, including today's book: "Manhattan Transfer" by John Dos Passos. This title has been lurking in the TBR for decades - I suspect I acquired it in the 1980s or 1990s, alongside his…
#1925Club - The Professor's House, another brilliant work by Willa Cather
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