Welcome to Litsy!

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

My May #bookspin roundup is a bit late as I have been busy and away from home lately. I haven't even got round to finding my #maybookspin book and I've decided not to post a new list for June but use the numbers to plunder this or an older list instead. I feel like adding in new books each month is making me feel backlogged in itself, though in a different way to usual, so I'm twisting the rules a bit to suit myself better.

New episode just dropped! We select a February book of the month (or two) and discuss Marvel movies, Gary Oldman, and sushi. If you're going to enjoy the episode please enjoy responsibly.

https://anchor.fm/peter-murphy8

This series has really hit its stride; the gradual change in the characters over the years is what really matters here. This book sees Nick in his mid-thirties; I find it a bit alarming that this is the start of the “autumn“ of his life! I was concerned that the military nature of this would take us back to the all male cast that annoyed me in the first book, but I ended up fairly satisfied. The characters are more varied & interesting now.

August, you were a terrible reading month. Dragged down by Castle Shade, which was July's #doublespin, and this month's #bookspin being mediocre. What We Really Do All Day is interesting non-fic that's better read slowly. On the plus side I'm really enjoying The Valley of Bones and I got lots of productive work and home stuff done in August. I'm happy-ish with that. Can't win them all.

Day 14 - #Dance #AcrossApril
#DanceToTheMusicOfTime #AnthonyPowell #1001Books

Description
A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume roman-fleuve by Anthony Powell, published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century.

I read all 12 volumes in 2015 and enjoyed them very much!

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

Second in his Dance to the Music of Time sequence and narrator Nick is out of university and drifting a bit, professionally and romantically. This one sees the introduction of characters such as Mr Deacon, Gypsy Jones (to whom our hero loses his virginity in a "blink and you miss it" episode) and Barmby but Widmerpool remains the fish-faced star.

Currently reading this for the fourth time and always finding something new

Volume 2 of 12 Dance to the Music of Time taking our characters out into the “real world”. The end sentence sums it up “life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncountrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity”. Volume 3 awaits for March “The Acceptance World” and the completion of the 1st Movement.