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10 posts published by kaggsysbookishramblings during August 2025| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington had a fascinating life and career, producing both visual and written artworks in her time. Known for her uncompromising prose and paintings, she’s gone through long periods of neglect; however, since the 1970s she’s been periodically rediscovered and her star is somewhat higher now than it was, with her paintings selling […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
I’ve probably mentioned before how easily distracted I am as a reader, and a perfect recent example is the Christa Wolf effect! Her book of essays, which I really enjoyed reading for #WITMonth, contained a piece on the Soviet author Vera Inber, and I felt sure I had one of her books in the stacks. […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
When I trailed my possible reads for August at the end of July, one of the piles of potential was a smashing selection of works kindly sent to me by British Library Publishing. As well as producing the marvellous Crime Classics range, they do of course issue the Women Writers series. I’ve read a number […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Whenever I’m searching the stacks for a book to read for #WITMonth, I always try to see if I’ve anything translated in my Virago collection so I can read something which fits for more than one event. However, that’s not always so easy, as I think the bulk of my Viragos are English language ones, […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
It’s been a little while since I read any of my beloved Golden Age crime books, so when I got the itch recently I couldn’t resist. Luckily, I have a little stack of unread titles which publishers have been kind enough to send me, and today I want to share a couple of titles which […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
I don’t know if it’s just me, but however many books I’ve had lurking on the TBR for ages, I often get seduced by the new books which come into the Ramblings! Today’s post is a case in point; I picked up “Black Apples of Gower” by Iain Sinclair in the Leicester Loros Charity bookshop […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
This month’s read for the Tove Jansson #Moomin80 readalong I’m doing with Liz is one which I missed on my first read of the books many moons ago. In fact, I only picked it up in 2017 on…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
This page is for the latest of our club reads, books from the year 1952. Please join us in reading, exploring, commenting on and recommending any exciting books you’ve discovered! I’ll collec…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
As is usual for me with the random nature of discoveries made online, I can’t remember where it was that I stumbled across today’s book; Instagram or BlueSky most likely, but anyway, I saw the cover and strap line and was intrigued enough to look it up. This was just before I left for my […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
It’s become something of a habit for me to take a Jack Kerouac book away with me when I travel during the summer – and this year was no exception! As I mentioned in my July round-up, I headed off to visit the Aged Parent and the Offspring a little earlier than usual, in July, […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
The author C.D. Rose has been on my radar for a while now, in fact since I stumbled across mention of the intriguingly-named “Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea” (which I really must get hold of…) So when his publishers, Melville House Press, asked if I’d like to take part in a blog tour for […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
July has rather whooshed by, but it’s been a month where I managed to not only get some good, solid reading in, I also squeezed in a little travel – more of which later in this post! Fi…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
10 posts published by kaggsysbookishramblings during July 2025| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
This month’s Tove Jansson Moomin book for the #Moomin80 readalong I’m doing with Liz is “Moominland Midwinter” from 1957 (translated here by Thomas Warburton). Once again, i…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
In my looooong post sharing my stack of recent arrivals, there were four lovely slim volumes from Renard Press. I love their pocket sized editions, and decided that a couple of these would be the p…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Well, we’ve come to the fifth book of my readalong with Liz to celebrate #Moomin80 and that’s “Moominsummer Madness” by Tove Jansson, translated here by Thomas Warburton. I …| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
One small advantage of being in depths of documentary repeat season is the chance to catch up on favourite progs. I’ve frequently rambled on about Professor Richard Clay’s marvellous three-part ser…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
As I mentioned online on Friday, 6th June was the 13th anniversary of the blog (it always sneaks up on me, and then Wordpress reminds me!) As I commented, that’s a lot of books and a lot of w…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Inevitably, I have been drawn back to those nice shiny new Penguin Archive 90 volumes; they sit so brightly on the TBR and call to me like sirens, and were the perfect thing to pick up and read alo…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Back in August last year, I took part in a lovely event called Moominweek, hosted by Paula at Book Jotter. I read all the Moomin books by Tove Jansson in the early years of the blog (mainly) so I c…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Lizzy and I are delighted to be hosting #ReadIndies for the fifth time. Reading Independent Publishers Month grew out of a number of events which focused on small presses, and was started during th…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
It feels like it was only five minutes ago since Reading Independent Publishers was launched in 2021. But here we are in the fifth year celebrating hard-working independent publishers taking risks…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
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My final read for the #1962Club is by an author who’s meant an awful lot to me over the years – Jack Kerouac. I’ve talked before about how I first discovered the Beat writers in m…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
