Thursday, June 18, 2015

Thursday Bookshelf - CA-DO


Cather to Donne this week. I've been rediscovering Willa Cather over the last year. I've just finished reading her Selected Letters & I have several more novels on the tbr shelves to read. I read O Pioneers! & My Àntonia over 30 years ago & only came back to her recently. I've been reading about more American women writers in Elaine Showalter's A Jury of Her Peers so I'm glad I have books on the tbr shelves by Sarah Orne Jewett, Louisa May Alcott & Dorothy Canfield Fisher. There's also The Worst Journey in the World by  Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the most devastating books I've ever read as well as some Agatha Christies (Joan Hickson covers) that I saved from my Dad's bookshelves when we emptied his house after he died.


More Christies, Christmas books (stories & carols) & the beginning of the Wilkie Collins collection, one of my favourite writers.


The rest of the Wilkies, a few Edmund Crispins, one of my favourite mystery writers, & Eleanor Dark's Timeless Land trilogy. I read these many years ago when the TV series was made. It's a story of early colonial Australia & I remember how much I enjoyed it. Also Eve Curie's biography of  her mother (the green book 11 from the right), another old favourite.

A shelf that displays my bad habit of collecting copies of favourite books. Three copies of The Diary of a Provincial Lady (I also have the Persephone edition but that's shelved with the Persephones) & several duplicate Dickens. Also To Serve Them All My Days by R F Delderfield (much faded TV tie-in edition with John Duttine on the spine, loved that series & read the book at least three times) & the Henrietta books by Joyce Dennys.

More Dickens, Emily Dickinson & John Donne, a very high-powered literary shelf! I do hope you're all noticing the spaces I'm leaving for the books from the tbr shelves as I read them. It would probably be useful if I stopped buying tbr books for a while, at least until I've filled some of these gaps, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

Next week, Dostoevsky to Gibbons.

Edited to add : I've just realised that the photos are too long for the screen, so you'll need to click on the photos to see the whole thing. They looked fine when I wrote the post so I must try something different with the photos next week. It's difficult to strike the balance between the photos fitting on the screen & being large enough so that you can see the titles.

9 comments:

  1. I need to read more Wilkie Collins. What would you recommend after The Woman in White and The moonstone?

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    1. I think Armadale would be my next choice. Incredibly convoluted plot with several characters called Allan Armadale but a great villain, Lydia Gwilt.

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    2. Great suggestion, thanks!

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  2. I keep recognising not only books but editions! We have great taste Lyn.

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    1. Of course we do! I'm sure lots of us have the same editions, especially if we came to books like TSTAMD through the TV adaptations.

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  3. I'm enjoying virtually browsing your shelves, thanks for sharing them with us

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  4. Looking at other people's book is a little like going to the library - except that you can't borrow the books. You can certainly get ideas, though, for books to read.

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    1. Do we need any more ideas though, Joan? My head spins every time I finish a book & wonder what to read next.

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