Books Do Furnish a Room

Books Do Furnish a Room: A Novel | Anthony Powell

New house, old shelves. Loving this room so far. I got rid of 8 or so boxes of books and we still have boxes and boxes more to unpack once we get some new shelves. 😱 My husband had to do the actual moving of the boxes and boxes of books and I‘m not sure he‘ll ever forgive me. 😂 🤣 #booksellerlife

Aims42 What a beautiful room!! 🥰🥰🥰 2y

TheLibrarian Beautiful! I‘m about to go through a move and my ex-husband and his friend are going to regret offering to move me because of all my books and 3 flights of stairs 😬 2y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love it!! I hope I never move again!! 2y

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BarbaraBB Beautiful space! 2y

TrishB Lovely ❤️ 2y

Avanders Oooh 😍😍 2y

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Booksnchill

Books Do Furnish a Room: A Novel | Anthony Powell

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Finished book 10 in Anthony Powell‘s Dance to the Music of Time so 2 more volumes to go and my year of reading the Dance will be at an end. I really enjoy these volumes- this one a bit less so as I am not invested in the story of X Trapnell and Pamela (pictured on this cover) but Nick Jenkins as our narrator is always engaging. #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

BarbaraBB Wow you‘re doing great. I had my year of reading Powell a few years ago and really liked The Dance too! 5y

Booksnchill @BarbaraBB i am really enjoying this so I am considering doing a year of Proust for 2020- have you done a year of any other series like this one? 5y

BarbaraBB I am doing Proust now! But I have been since 2017 so it is taking me a long time! 5y

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Booksnchill @BarbaraBB i wondered- thought I‘d re-read Swann‘s Way in January then do 2 months per volume- I am interested in the new translations and the last 2 I think or last one haven‘t been released yet so that may be a reasonto do it over a longer period- do you find it a similar experience-i.e. immersed with the same sensibility over a year of reading? (edited) 5y

BarbaraBB I liked The Dance and wanted to read on and on. I am having a hard time reading Proust but that may be partly due to the fact that I‘m taking too long. I am now starting the last instalment. 5y

Booksnchill @BarbaraBB 👍 Yes I think I will miss Nick as well! 5y

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Eyejaybee

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Utterly marvellous! I live this sequence which, taken in its entirety, is probably my favourite book of all. Read my Goodreads review at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9810739-books-do-furnish-a-room. #anthonypowell #booksdofurnisharoom #romanfleuve #contemporaryliterature #satire #history #politics #kennethwidmerpool #widmerpool #novelsequence #literarure #writing

Minervasbutler Love this series. I read it first when I was 18-19, again in my twenties and the third time in my thirties. Now on my fourth time around (read A Buyer's Market a few months ago). 7y

Eyejaybee @Minervasbutler Same here. I too was about 19 back in 1982 when I first read the series, and I have reread the whole thing every couple of years since. 7y

Minervasbutler It's wonderful, isn't it? And somehow Powell seems to have fallen out of fashion. 7y

Eyejaybee @Minervasbutler Yes, he has never had the recognition that he deserves. There was a great biography of him recently by Hilary Spurling, which marvellously captured his life and complemented the novel sequence. 7y

BarbaraBB I enjoyed The Dance too but would not consider reading it again. I loved the title of this installment! 7y

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