so-soI think my problem is that every time I pick up a book by Byatt I want it to be another Possession and of course it never is. #24in2024
#AugustStats
Total books:25
~Fiction:23
~Nonfiction: 2
~Buddy Reads:9
~Audio books:4
#literarycrew #Camplitsy24 #hyggeread #sundaybuddyread #nunlit #NancyDrewBR #ASByatt #AdventuresinPhilosophy #BookedinTime #readyourkindle
Megabooks, sprainedbrain, Cuilin, TheBookHippie, Librarybelle, BarbaraBB, Graywacke, jlhammar, GingerAntics, AllDebooks
#weeklyforecast.
~Buddy reads: begin Alice Diamond #sundaybuddyread
The Voyage Out #VirginiaBloomberries ; Password #NancyDrewBR; finish: How to Think #adventuresinphilosophy ; Possession #ASByatt
~library books: The Testament of Mary; Suspense and Sensibility #MrandMrsDarcyMystery ; The Yellow Dog (reread)
~Deeper than Dead #readyourkindle
Plan to continue with buddy reads. #adventuresinphilosophy #asbyatt
In Process: finish up what I can #readyourkindle #secretbookcasemystery #cozy
#berylandedwinamystery #audiobook #librarybook #serieslove2024
My week ahead:
~Read sections required for 3 books in first row. #sundaybuddyread #adventuresinphilosophy #asbyatt
~continue listening to Murder in an English Village #berylandedwinamystery #audible
~ Read what I can of the others-mood reading #readyourkindle #commissionaireguidobrunettimystery #bookspin #libraryfind
pick#12Booksof2022 @Andrew65 November
Bit of a slower month!AS BYatt is a genius.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4994362906
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5090097864
pickIn this, the third book in Byatt's quartet, we find Frederica fleeing an increasingly abusive marriage and trying to find a life in a 1960s world that recognises her as a mother/wife only, never flesh and blood. Woven in between Frederica's story is a grotesque, fantasy, novel which will later be tried for obscenity.
As with all Byatt, the writing is as literate and rich with cultural references as you could hope.
Just magnificent.
'Everything in England', this journalist writes, 'comes back to the inextricable links between our educational system, privilege, or lack of it, and sex...'
There is truth to these words yet!
'I feel I'm on trial for reading books.'
'You are. Partly.'
'I wouldn't be if I were a man.'
'Perhaps not. I know a couple - early thirties, can't have children, desperate to adopt. The social worker concerned in vetting them sent in a report saying "Plausible couple, well-intentioned. Too many books in the house. Wife reads." '
