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What a great selection of books , Thankyou everyone. I can‘t wait to do some reading with these ones going to the top of the TBR 😘😘😘😘 😘thanks again Jessie for tagged book. I‘m spoilt!
I gave myself the Roddy Doyle.

This lovely book has just come in the post … but I didn‘t order it 🤔I wonder who it was so I can say Thankyou.

Just finished this delightfully sad little book—a slice of middle class domestic life in England during WWII—and now I want to read everything Elizabeth Taylor wrote. I loved her wit and related deeply with the main character, though each of the characters was intriguing in their own right. I didn‘t know what to expect from the story, but didn‘t much care, as I simply enjoyed being in it—the real, flawed beauty of human nature, quietly observed.

Some fun #bookserendipity in my reading this morning. The characters had a whole discussion of Villette (my other current read)! I am loving both books.

“She tried not to behave like a spinster in a book. Her sense of humour saved her, she believed. She put up a good fight and fell into only the less obvious traps, but she bothered a little more about her dignity, and her position, than do the majority of married women, and betrayed herself by what Roddy called her ‘little ways‘, by which he meant the trivial comforts, consolations, cups of tea...

Okay, @LeahBergen , here‘s another test of our friendship! Not to worry, though, so far I‘m enthralled by her writing.

This morning, I‘m sitting in a bustling café, sipping on an extra hot latte, and wearing a newly bought grey sweater (just in time for autumn). I‘m hoping to finish the book pictured above, so I can start on a fresh TBR stack. I wish each of you a happy September 1st, and if I could, I would send each of you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils... ✏️

Set at the end of WWII somewhere in England, this debut novel looks at domestic life and the expectations on the women with respect to family and the home. Julia is a bored housewife who can‘t seem to live up to her duties of mother and wife and wishes for more independence. In contrast, Eleanor, her husband‘s cousin, longs for what Julia has. The novel deals with the tedium of everyday life and not much happens, making it a bit slow for me. 3⭐️

A five star read for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Elizabeth Taylor‘s novels dwell upon “the quiet horror of domestic life” (as Valerie Martin so wonderfully states in her intro to this edition) and I can already tell I‘ll be back for more of it. Brilliant.

I believe I‘m going to like this kid. 🙂

Currently reading (and already in love!) 🍎

Loved this book about a family in the post World War II years. I got a real Jane Austen vibe in the storyline. Strong women learning to live in a changing world. Highly recommend it.

At Mrs Lippincote's is a story set in 1945. We follow the Davenant family - RAF husband Roddy, his smart and outgoing wife Julia, bookworm son Oliver, and spinster cousin Eleanor settling in this rented house.

It took me a while to get used to her style as it reads more like scenes than a novel. I loved Taylor's sharp and witty delivery, & all the references to literature works. The characters are so relatable even to current era .. cont‘d👇🏻

What could be better than an afternoon tea with a book?

Kaya butter bun + coffee + a book 👌🏻 before watching Tom Cruise running/fighting/doing crazy stunts in the latest MI

@thetirelessreader recommended Elizabeth Taylor to me, and look at what I found at the library 😍 I start with the tagged book, which is her first novel

This morning we tried out a new brunch place (apparently everyone else in the city had the same idea). Mr. S and I agreed it was a bit chaotic so we‘d like to come back, but maybe during the week, when it‘s quieter. Now, we‘re settled on a comfy couch, with a local cheese plate and books propped open. I think we‘ve figured out an afternoon plan.

#brunch #weekendreading #elizabethtaylor #bookandfood

One of my favorite passages from this book! I was thinking about it again today. I have had countless meals in my imagination! #foodie

I so enjoyed this novel! What a thoroughly enjoyable time warp. Just the thing to continue the WWII nostalgia of Home Fires. Highly recommend! So funny but bitingly witty. #vmc ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #mayreads

This is a cookie/waffle deep fried with bacon bits on top. Do love my 🥓! Hello coronary. #bookndinner #vmc

I've often felt this way! I can't sleep with a scary book in my room. #bookworm #vmc

⭐⭐⭐⭐½ Elizabeth Taylor (not that one!) is such an underrated author. Her flawed characters with all their frailties and their contentious relationships are always note perfect. Her books are sharply observed and acerbically funny, she writes my favourite twentieth-century social comedies and this is my favourite so far #TacklingTheTBR

"Necessarily". Roddy, you condescending, patriarchal little shit ??

Lovely, especially that last image 🌞📚