Wednesday, the 24th of April 2024, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature created by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. Since early January 2023, Shelf Control has moved base here to Literary Potpourri. To participate, all you do…
Book Review: The Cheltenham Square Murder (1937) by John Bude #1937Club
Third in the series of mysteries featuring Inspector Meredith by English author Ernest Carpenter Elmore, who wrote as John Bude, The Cheltenham Square Murder is in some ways the typical golden age murder with a closed circuit of suspects in a small tight-knit neighbourhood, but it still has its novelty in terms of the murder…
Of Kits and Trolls: Reminders for Some Upcoming Reading Events
Today's post is just a quick reminder of a couple of events which I'll be hosting and cohosting here on Literary Potpourri in the coming months, June and August-September! In June I'll be hosting for the second time, #ReadingtheMeow2024. Reading the Meow is a week-long celebration of cats and books in which anyone who wants…
Book Review: Journey by Moonlight (1937) by Antal Szerb #1937Club
I received a review copy of this book from Pushkin Press via Edelweiss for which my thanks. Nostalgia, the pursuit of dreams and ideals of youth and of days gone by, which perhaps don’t turn out quite as one might think when they become or get close to becoming real, and social frames, those narrow…
Guest Post: Book Reviews: The Crimson Brier Bush (1937) by Frances K. Judd and The Whispering Statue (1937) by Carolyn Keene: Two Teen Mysteries #1937Club
Here are my mother's second and third picks for Karen and Simon's #1937Club, two teen mysteries which turned out a lot more dramatic than she expected After reviewing a short story by an unknown author as my first offering for the 1937 club, I decided to look for someone familiar and an assuredly comfortable read.…
Book Review: Jane of Lantern Hill (1937) by L. M. Montgomery #1937Club
On the lines of stories like Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, Elizabeth Von Arnim’s The Enchanted April, and Lucy Maud Montgomery’s own, The Blue Castle, where a change of scene and importantly nature bring about a life changing transformation in the characters’ until then dreary and oftentimes even miserable lives, is Jane of Lantern…
Shelf Control #276: Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
Wednesday, the 17th of April 2024, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature created by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. Since early January 2023, Shelf Control has moved base here to Literary Potpourri. To participate, all you do…
Guest Post: Review: ‘What Every Girl Wants’ (1937) by Phyllis Bottome #1937Club
Today I have a guest post from my mother who enjoys joining in with Karen and Simon's clubs. This is her review of a short story from a new-to-me (and her) author Phyllis Bottome. I am not overfond of short stories with a few exceptions, like “The Cats of Ulthar”. Afterall, how much can an…
Book Review: Theatre (1937) by W. Somerset Maugham #1937Club
Entertaining and fun, some parts sparkling (and surprisingly frank for the time it was written), W. Somerset Maugham’s 1937 novel Theatre, set in a world that was very much his own (he was as much a playwright as a novelist, especially in the earlier part of his career, and a successful one at that), and…
Book Review: Blue Sky Morning by Kim Jihyun and translated by Polly Lawson
I received a review copy of this book from Floris Books via Edelweiss for which my thanks. I was absolutely captivated by Kim Jihyun’s The Depth of the Lake and the Height of Sky a couple of years ago, a book which without a line of text, gets readers to experience the story or more…
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