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slemslempike) wrote2019-03-01 10:34 am
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An English Country Manner - Clark, Rory
Summer Term at Malory Towers - Cox, Pamela
The Theban Mysteries - Cross, Amanda
Pigs Can Fly - Cryer, Barry
Alice - Eliot, Elizabeth
The Trouble With Women - Fleming, Jacky
Theatrical - Harcourt, Maggie
The Adults - Hulse, Caroline
The Skylark War - McKay, Hilary
Debutante - Melville, Anne
Everything I Never Told You - Ng, Celeste
An Unsuitable Attachment - Pym, Barbara
I Ordered a Table for Six - Streatfeild, Noel
East of Wimbledon - Williams, Nigel
Lucia on Holiday - Fraser-Sampson, Guy
Marriages are Made in Bond Street - Halson, Penrose
Venetia - Heyer, Georgette
Our Game - Le Carre, John
The Echoing Grove - Lehman, Rosamund
My Mother Was Nuts - Marshall, Penny
Dirty Nothern Bastards and other tales from the terraces - Marshall, Tim
Bumped - McCafferty, Megan
Clinging to the Wreckage - Mortimer, John
Troublemaker -Remini, Leah
Olivia - Strachey, Dorothy
Coming Up Trumps -Trumpington, Jean
Educated -Westover, Tara
I was describing the irritatingness of Rory Clarks books toalithea and mountainkiss, at which point F raised an eyebrow at keeping reading the series despite not enjoying the first one. He is a very very irritating writer, but I do like reading about the life of country estate agents and what comes up. Not planning to read the third one though.
The Skylark War was excellent... except for dead queer boy. It was quite a nice portrayal of a gay adolescent/young man up until the ending. It felt like a cop out, that he could die tragically in the war, but there's no way to conceptualise a queer adult and what life he might have after the war. REminded me rather of the earlier Casslet books.
Debutante was a novel of several women who came out at the same time - social climbing mothers, impoverished but posh gels needing a rich husband, and then their lives being interrupted by the war. I was reading this visitingwhatho in Shetland, and remember telling her about the strong telegraphing of whose brother was going to end up with whom.
I have read adult Streatfeilds before, so when I downloaded I Ordered a Table for Six I was expecting a rather light adult romance, or a heavy-going family saga that somewhat tails off into meldrama. This was definitely more in the latter category, but defies it - I thought the portrayal of sex workers was very good, and the ending with the wrong people dying was genuinely quite shockinf.
I bought Lucia on Holiday more or less by mistake with one-click and decided to go through it. It was not bad, but Fraser-Sampson doesn't really get Mapp, making the rivalry between her and Lucia very one sided, and writing with a fair amount of thinly-veiled disgust about her. Lucia he is better at, but still not nearly as good as even Tom Holt.
Lots of memoirs in February - Educated very very good as everyone says, but I wanted much more about her struggles once in education - it came across a little as "after I was told to read the textbook I could do it after all", and though she tells us about how hard she worked and studied, I was really interested in the actual path of getting to being an incredible academic, but the book isn't really about that. Coming Up Trumps rather shallow and jumps from incident to incident of Jean being "very naughty" or meeting new people - enjoyable read, but not much of an impression.
Summer Term at Malory Towers - Cox, Pamela
The Theban Mysteries - Cross, Amanda
Pigs Can Fly - Cryer, Barry
Alice - Eliot, Elizabeth
The Trouble With Women - Fleming, Jacky
Theatrical - Harcourt, Maggie
The Adults - Hulse, Caroline
The Skylark War - McKay, Hilary
Debutante - Melville, Anne
Everything I Never Told You - Ng, Celeste
An Unsuitable Attachment - Pym, Barbara
I Ordered a Table for Six - Streatfeild, Noel
East of Wimbledon - Williams, Nigel
Lucia on Holiday - Fraser-Sampson, Guy
Marriages are Made in Bond Street - Halson, Penrose
Venetia - Heyer, Georgette
Our Game - Le Carre, John
The Echoing Grove - Lehman, Rosamund
My Mother Was Nuts - Marshall, Penny
Dirty Nothern Bastards and other tales from the terraces - Marshall, Tim
Bumped - McCafferty, Megan
Clinging to the Wreckage - Mortimer, John
Troublemaker -Remini, Leah
Olivia - Strachey, Dorothy
Coming Up Trumps -Trumpington, Jean
Educated -Westover, Tara
I was describing the irritatingness of Rory Clarks books to
alithea and mountainkiss, at which point F raised an eyebrow at keeping reading the series despite not enjoying the first one. He is a very very irritating writer, but I do like reading about the life of country estate agents and what comes up. Not planning to read the third one though.The Skylark War was excellent... except for dead queer boy. It was quite a nice portrayal of a gay adolescent/young man up until the ending. It felt like a cop out, that he could die tragically in the war, but there's no way to conceptualise a queer adult and what life he might have after the war. REminded me rather of the earlier Casslet books.
Debutante was a novel of several women who came out at the same time - social climbing mothers, impoverished but posh gels needing a rich husband, and then their lives being interrupted by the war. I was reading this visiting
whatho in Shetland, and remember telling her about the strong telegraphing of whose brother was going to end up with whom.I have read adult Streatfeilds before, so when I downloaded I Ordered a Table for Six I was expecting a rather light adult romance, or a heavy-going family saga that somewhat tails off into meldrama. This was definitely more in the latter category, but defies it - I thought the portrayal of sex workers was very good, and the ending with the wrong people dying was genuinely quite shockinf.
I bought Lucia on Holiday more or less by mistake with one-click and decided to go through it. It was not bad, but Fraser-Sampson doesn't really get Mapp, making the rivalry between her and Lucia very one sided, and writing with a fair amount of thinly-veiled disgust about her. Lucia he is better at, but still not nearly as good as even Tom Holt.
Lots of memoirs in February - Educated very very good as everyone says, but I wanted much more about her struggles once in education - it came across a little as "after I was told to read the textbook I could do it after all", and though she tells us about how hard she worked and studied, I was really interested in the actual path of getting to being an incredible academic, but the book isn't really about that. Coming Up Trumps rather shallow and jumps from incident to incident of Jean being "very naughty" or meeting new people - enjoyable read, but not much of an impression.