#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon #ShortStorySunday First Impressions, Secondary Consequences-My #bookreview for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark, on my #bookblog here. #1961Club (late) #histficreadingchallenge #BeatTheBacklist #TheClassicsClub #ccwhatimreading

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The #1961Club comes to an end – but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚

Well, as the saying goes - that's a wrap! The 1961 Club has come to an end, and what a fabulous week it was! This turned out to be a particularly good year for books and I don't know about you, but I struggled a little to pick what to read and could have posted about many more books. It's been marvellous reading everyone's posts and comments about which titles they've been enjoying and thanks so…

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“…Doc Benway assessed the situation…” #1961Club #thesoftmachine

I've been gradually making my way through the books of William S. Burroughs, starting with "Junky" back in 2024; so when I realised that the next book chronologically was "The Soft Machine" from 1961 it was inevitable that I would save this for our club week! "Soft..." is the first book in what is called Burroughs' 'Cut-Up Trilogy' and interestingly I didn't have a copy of this one on my shelves; so I…

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“Oh, the sounds of time are pouring through the window…” #1961Club #PullMyDaisy

The second Beat book I wanted to share some thoughts on for the #1961Club is perhaps an unusual one. Titled "Pull My Daisy", it gathers together texts by Jack Kerouac that were based around a film by the same name made by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. Described on the back of the book as "a short cinematographic exhibition of "Beat" life in a Bowery "pad" in New York's Lower East Side",…

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“…nothing to weep for…” #1961Club #kaddish #allenginsberg

As I mentioned in my first post of the week, in 1961 the world was changing; and although classic crime novels and lighter books like "Provincial Daughter" were being released, writers like the Beat authors were also publishing prolifically. To start my final run of posts for 1961, today I want to share my thoughts on a seminal work by a man who is probably regarded as the pre-eminent Beat poet - …

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“…deploring drudgery of housework.” #1961Club #provincialdaughter

Whenever we have one of our Club weeks coming up, I always check to see if there are any Virago Modern Classics from the year in question lurking on my shelves. I love my Virago books, but I don't read them as often as I should, so it's always a good opportunity to check - and luckily 1961 has a Virago title which I knew I had somewhere in the house.

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“You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.” #1961Club #drseuss #thesneetches

Something slightly different on the Ramblings today for the #1961Club - Dr. Seuss!! I've mentioned before on the blog how one of the books I remember most strongly from my childhood is his "I had Trouble In Getting to Solla Sollew"; I borrowed it from the local library more than once, loving its surreal imagery, and when I was old enough I bought my own copy which I still have and…

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