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Winding Up the Week #465
https://bookjotter.com/2026/04/04/winding-up-the-week-465/
This week I round up books read and reviewed across the blogosphere, explore some of the finest literary writing to be found online, announce both the 1961 Club and Lady Audley’s Secret Review Along, mark a host of literary anniversaries, revisit past posts ripe for rediscovery and highlight a selection of fascinating features from around the Internet. @kaggsy59 #1961Club #reviewalong #Bookstodon #Books #ToveTrove #Bookbloggers -
“But sometimes, though rarely, some men go out never to return.” #theruinedmap
Back in 2024, I read the classic book "The Woman in the Dunes" by Kōbō Abe for Japanese Literature Month and was very taken with it, if a little unnerved by the claustrophobic atmosphere of the story. At the time, I thought I'd like to explore his writing but I've somehow never got to any of his other books.
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“One should always believe the worst first…” #colette #claudine
After deciding to abandon Arthur Machen for the moment, I hit a bit of a buffer when I was trying to choose what to read next. However, in the spirit of my wish to do some re-reading, I recalled that I had revisited the first two Claudine books by Colette relatively recently - "Claudine at School" and "
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“One should always believe the worst first…” #colette #claudine
After deciding to abandon Arthur Machen for the moment, I hit a bit of a buffer when I was trying to choose what to read next. However, in the spirit of my wish to do some re-reading, I recalled that I had revisited the first two Claudine books by Colette relatively recently - "Claudine at School" and "
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“You know what an inconstant person I am…” #Proust #thefugitive #1925Club
My final read for our 10th Anniversary Club is a book I've been keen to get onto, and in fact is the third book I've read this year by the author: "The Fugitive" by Marcel Proust, the penultimate volume in his Remembrance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time sequence. I've been gradually making my way through these over the years, and it's not been a fast process; I started with "Swann's Way"…
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Celebrating one hundred years of a seminal novel #mrsdalloway
One hundred years ago today, a groundbreaking piece of fiction was published for the first time; this is, of course, "Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf, a book which very much changed my life and has a special place in my heart. I was really tempted to celebrate this by re-reading the book, but I don't want to run the risk of too many visits to a favourite volume and also didn't want to rush it.
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“Why shouldn’t literature provoke? It always has.” #nakedlunch #williamsburroughs
The quote at the head of this post is not actually by the author of the book I'm writing about today. Instead, it's by Salman Rushdie; but when I saw it online recently, it struck me strongly that it could apply to a work I've read recently. That title is "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs, and I picked it up as it's the next chronologically after my reads of Burroughs last year.
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“In the middle of an empty plain…” #triptrap #jackkerouac
Last month, when I made a little visit to London, I had my usual crisis in advance of heading to the station about what book I would read on my travels! This always has to be chosen carefully; it has to be not too big to be a pain carrying, something I'm in the mood for, and a book that will last for at least a couple of hours' reading.
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“Is there no way we can come to an understanding?” #japaneselitchallenge16 #tanizaki #thekey https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2023/01/16/is-there-no-way-we-can-come-to-an-understanding-japaneselitchallenge16-tanizaki-thekey/
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“Is there no way we can come to an understanding?” #japaneselitchallenge16 #tanizaki #thekey https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2023/01/16/is-there-no-way-we-can-come-to-an-understanding-japaneselitchallenge16-tanizaki-thekey/
