One of the authors who popped up as an option when I was considering what to read for 1925 was the Russian writer, Maxim Gorky. His novel, “The Artamonov Business”, was published in that year and I do have a copy lurking as a possible read. However, I noticed from a Fitzcarraldo newsletter that they […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
As we continue to edge further into Autumn, I’ve had yet another great month of reading – which surprised me a little, as it was fairly busy both at home and at work! However, I have continued to enjoy my reading with a lovely range of titles and here are September’s reads: In case the […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Over the last few years, I’ve been happy to champion the Recovered Books imprint from Boiler House Press; since their initial release, “Gentleman Overboard” in 2021, they’ve gone on to bring us incredible works by Gertrude Trevelyan, Tess Slesinger and Genevieve Taggard, to name but a few. Their latest release is another author new to […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
My final read for Short Story September is a collection which only arrived recently at the Ramblings, but which I was very excited to receive – “No Such Thing as a Free Lunch” by Rosalind Brackenbury. The latter, who is still writing novels today (her latest title “Bone Whispers”, came out last year), is an […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
It’s patently obvious to anyone with even only a nodding acquaintance with me that I love books – I mean, I’ve devoted a whole blog to them!! So obviously, as well as loving books, I also very much love Books about Books; and a new title out from Bodleian Library Publishing today was absolutely the […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
It’s been a while since I read the first two novels by Anita Brookner, “A Start in Life” and “Providence“, although I’m intending to gradually read my way through her books chronologically. However, when I was casting about for suitable reads for #SpinsterSeptember, I did consider Brookner; and then a comment by JacquiWine hinted that […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
There are times when you spot a book and think instantly that it’s going to be one for you, and that happened recently for me. The title in question is “Mapping the North” by Charlotta Forss, and it appealed to me for two reasons: being Scottish I of course hail from the north and so […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
For once, I know exactly what prompted me to buy the book I’m sharing today – and that was a review by JacquiWine of Eileen Chang’s “Jasmine Tea and other stories”. Ch…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
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I can hardly believe that Liz and I are getting towards the end of our readalong of Tove Jansson‘s Moomin books to celebrate their 80th anniversary! Today sees us reach the penultimate book, “Moominpappa at Sea“, which I last read back in 2015 – and the revisit has really got me thinking about this one! […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Today’s post covers a book which couldn’t be more different from the last one I wrote about, and I’m counting it for two of this month’s events – #SpinsterSeptember, organised by Nora/PearJelly on Instagram, and Short Story September, hosted by Lisa at ANZ LitLovers LitBlog. The book is “Miss Marple’s Final Cases” by Agatha Christie. […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
August has been an interesting month, though not always in a good way (more of that later!) but I can’t believe September is here already! There’s always a certain melancholy at this ti…| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
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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
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
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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
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
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