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The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars Maurice Dekobra (actually Ernest-Maurice Tessier, his pseudonym apparently inspired by an encounter with a snake charmer in North Africa) was perhaps the most famous novelist in France between the …

A late addition to the #1925Club with a book that may or may not have been published in 1925:
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos – a post for the #1925Club As some of you will already know, Karen and Simon are hosting another of their hugely popular ‘Club’ events this week. In fact, it’s ten years since they started this venture, so congratulations to…

'So Sir Francis Beekman wanted us to get out and look at the tower because he said that quite a famous Queen had her head cut off there one morning and Dorothy said “What a fool she was to get up that morning”...' #BookSky 💙📚 #1925Club

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The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf selected and introduced by Frances Spalding #20BooksOfSummer25 #1925Club The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her. Book blurb Virginia Woolf is considered by many to be one of the greatest…

The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf selected and introduced by Frances Spalding #20BooksOfSummer25 #1925Club lovebooksreadbooks.com/2025/10/27/t...

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The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf selected and introduced by Frances Spalding #20BooksOfSummer25 #1925Club The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her. Book blurb Virginia Woolf is considered by many to be one of the greatest…

The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf selected and introduced by Frances Spalding #20BooksOfSummer25 #1925Club lovebooksreadbooks.com/2025/10/27/t... > via @j-lbrbsblogs.bsky.social

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Review: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Althought I have labeled this a “review” it really isn’t. Oh my!! I FINALLY enjoyed a Virginia Woolf book! After trying, and failing with A Room A Room of One’s Own I though…

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#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 volume…

On the Ramblings today - I consider some #1925club books which got away, and also reveal what year we'll explore next! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/1...

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Two books for the 1925 Club & Hundred Years Hence #1925Club and #HYH25 The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie. (1925) French title: Le secret de Chimneys. Alain on Happiness by Alain. (1925) Original French title: Propos sur le bonheur. I have read lots of books by…

Two books for the 1925 Club & Hundred Years Hence #1925Club and #HYH25
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Grey Persephone book, Greenery Street by Denis Mackail, on a wooden shelf

Grey Persephone book, Greenery Street by Denis Mackail, on a wooden shelf

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Greenery Street by Denis Mackail

Ian and Felicity marry, and buy their first house together, on Greenery Street - and the street is treated as a character in its own right. Full of period detail of every day life, funny and charming, and just managing to stay on the right side of twee.

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The Little World by Stella Benson – #1925Club My final review for the 1925 Club is Stella Benson’s The Little World. I found it in Hay-on-Wye seven years ago, exploring the pocket editions section where, it turns out, it’s not all …

"Being alive at all is an incessant shock"

Finishing off #1925Club with some travel writing from Stella Benson

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Professor Dowell’s Head Professor Dowell’s Head is the first notable work of science fiction by Russian writer Alexnader Belyaev, developed from a short story published in The Worker’s Gazette in 1925. Its most recent tra…

An early example of Soviet science fiction for the #1925Club - Alexander Belyaev's Professor Dowell's Head (translated by Carl Engel):
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Two books for the 1925 Club & Hundred Years Hence #1925Club and #HYH25 The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie. (1925) French title: Le secret de Chimneys. Alain on Happiness by Alain. (1925) Original French title: Propos sur le bonheur. I have read lots of books by…

New billet: Two books for the 1925 Club & Hundred Years Hence #1925Club and #HYH25 bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/10/26/t...

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The changeling’s daemon: #1925Club Phoenix design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (1960) for Penguin. ‘The Princess’ (1925) by D H Lawrence, in The Princess and Other Stories edited by Keith Sagar.Penguin Books, 1971. “O…

My review ‘The Princess’ (1925), a novelette by D H Lawrence, for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-dhl

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The 1925 Club: Alice in Orchestralia / Ernest La Prade My 1925 Club journey comes to an end with some music. When I looked for music-related books from 1925 I spotted Adam Carse’s classic treatise The History of Orchestration, but on the assumpti…

I'm finishing my #1925Club reading with the slightly derivative ALICE IN ORCHESTRALIA by Ernest La Prade. It's not without its charm. Thanks all, it's been a lot of fun as always!

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos – a post for the #1925Club As some of you will already know, Karen and Simon are hosting another of their hugely popular ‘Club’ events this week. In fact, it’s ten years since they started this venture, so congratulations to…

"So Mr Eisman gave me quite a nice string of pearls and he gave Dorothy a diamond pin and we all went to the Colony for dinner and we all went to a show and supper at the Trocadero and we all spent quite a pleasant evening." #1925Club #BookSky 💙📚

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“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 P…

On the blog today, my final book for the #1925club is the penultimate Proust - I’m getting near the end! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/y...

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos – a post for the #1925Club As some of you will already know, Karen and Simon are hosting another of their hugely popular ‘Club’ events this week. In fact, it’s ten years since they started this venture, so congratulations to…

New on the blog today for the #1925Club, I've written about GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES by Anita Loos.

A wonderfully witty satire featuring Lorelei, the ultimate girl about town. It's smart, engaging and a whole lot of fun! #BookSky 💙📚 #FilmSky

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The Dower House by Patricia Wentworth, for the #1925Club The Dower House, review, Patricia Wentworth

For the #1925Club, I read The Dower House by Patricia Wentworth, one of her early standalones before the creation of Miss Silver perfectretort.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... #booksky

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The 1925 Club: Love / Elizabeth von Arnim ‘I preach to-morrow at St. Clement’s,’ he remarked after a silence. ‘On the same subject?’ ‘There is only one. It embraces every other.’ ‘Yes—Love,’ she said; and her voice at the word went very so…

My next #1925Club read is Elizabeth von Arnim's sparkling LOVE, which didn't disappoint!

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“…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…

For the #1925club today, something a little different - travelling across Europe on a motorbike and sidecar!! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/w...

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Emily Climbs by L. M. Montgomery, for the #1925Club Emily Climbs, L.M. Montgomery, review

Any L.M. Montgomery fans? My review of Emily Climbs for the #1925Club - tinyurl.com/3b32vde8 (And I think I want this woman's hairstyle, not to mention her attitude!)

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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf #1925Club @RenardPress ‘Sheer magic.’ Eileen Atkins* Book blurb First published in 1925, set ‘one Wednesday in mid-June’, Mrs Dalloway charts the lives of several characters across a day in London. While Claris…

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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf #1925Club @RenardPress ‘Sheer magic.’ Eileen Atkins* Book blurb First published in 1925, set ‘one Wednesday in mid-June’, Mrs Dalloway charts the lives of several characters across a day in London. While Claris…

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf #1925Club @RenardPress lovebooksreadbooks.com/2025/10/24/m... > via @j-lbrbsblogs.bsky.social

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“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 …

On the blog today, I look at the magnificent Manhattan Transfer for the #1925club - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/t...

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The 1925 Club: Simonetta Perkins / L.P. Hartley I’ve been meaning to read Simonetta Perkins since … when? Certainly since I read The Ambassadors last year. (I read a big Henry James novel! I’m so grown-up, I can’t stop te…

Next stop on the #1925Club world tour is Venice, and L.P. Hartley's early novella SIMONETTA PERKINS, another book I loved.

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Review by sarahmatthews - Love Love by Elizabeth von Arnim Read on audioNarrator: Eleanor BronPub. 1925, 408pp ___I was imme...

My contribution to the #1925Club is a post on the wonderful Love by Elizabeth von Arnim, which had a lot to say about double standards in society & the pressures on women as they age 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview
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The Artamonovs Maxim Gorky is perhaps the least famous famous Russian writer. The friendship of Stalin has probably not helped keep his work in print in more recent times, but it is worth noting that he left the …

My latest #1925Club review takes me back to Russia and Maxim Gorky's The Artamonovs:
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Fear no more: #1925Club Virginia Woolf in 1927, aged 45. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: The Definitive Edition, edited by G Patton Wright, introduction by Angelica Garnett. Vintage Books, 1992 (1925). Oh! thought Cl…

'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf, reviewed for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-mrs

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The 1925 Club: Bread Givers / Anzia Yezierska Here’s a book I’d never have encountered, let alone read, if not for this project: Bread Givers by the Polish-American writer Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970). That’s despite the fact …

Second, another find: Anzia Yezierska's unpromising-sounding BREAD GIVERS. Let's have a bread! It's better than the title. #1925Club

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The 1925 Club: Manhattan Transfer / John Dos Passos I’ve meant to read John Dos Passos for years, in particular his trilogy U.S.A. Perhaps this shorter novel might act as a gateway to the doorstop. Anyway, it didn’t take long for me to f…

A Manhattan double bill for #1925Club Thursday! First, MANHATTAN TRANSFER, and you can add me to the ranks of new John Dos Passos fans this week.

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Some best books from our ten years of Club Reading Weeks! When Simon and I were first discussing the plans for the 10th anniversary Club, one of the wonderful suggestions made was that we should take a look back at some of our favourite books from previou…

For the #1925club today, we've encouraged everyone to share their favourite club reads of the ten years - here are mine! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/s...

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