Monday begins the week of Kaggsy and Simon's year club, and this spring the year is 1961. I piled up some candidates, because who doesn't like to look at a pile of books? (Right? You do agree, don't you?) In case the picture is hard to make out that's:
Nicholas Blake/The Worm of Death (Mystery)
Peter de Vries/The Blood of the Lamb (Comic, Chicago)
John Hawkes/The Lime Twig (Experimental)
Iris Murdoch/A Severed Head (British, Literary)
Freya Stark/Dust in the Lion's Paw (Autobiography, Travel)
Constantin Stanislavski/Creating a Role (Acting manual)
Frantz Fanon/The Wretched of the Earth (Political)
Charles Olson/The Maximus Poems (Poetry)
Naturally...I won't read them all over the next week, though I have already finished two (and will have posts early next week). I hope to get through one or two more.
Alas, the Olson is probably aspirational: I've been reading that for a year, and I'm about a hundred pages in...
'The Wretched of the Earth' is interesting, if a bit grim!
ReplyDeleteEven more interesting (to me at least!) is that Peter de Vries is a baddie in Dune... [grin]
I'd forgotten about the De Vries in Dune. Ha. But he spells it differently, doesn't he? More authentically Dutch, where this Peter got his name Anglicized along the way. (His family is pretty Dutch.)
DeleteHaven't heard any of your books, but I think I have seen the Nicholas Blake's when scrolling down Goodreads for the club. Hopefully you'd end up reviewing that for the club. Have fun with #1961Club!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Hope you have fun with it, too.
DeleteThe Nicholas Blake is a mystery so that one will get read!
The only one I know is The Severed Head which I ended up reading twice (once for a bookclub after some time had passed). It was an interesting year for sure! (It's Marcie.)
ReplyDeleteLots of stuff--it seems like the pile of books I'd already read from this year was bigger than usual.
DeleteGreat picture of pile! Yes, we love them!
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed of the diversity of books in 1961. I have read a lot of 1961 books, but none of the authors you mention
There does seem to be a lot, doesn't there? If I'd started piling up the ones I had read...
DeleteI also had quite a list of candidates that I didn't get to and a very long (but good) Anya Seton that I was 400 pages into before I realized it was published in 1962! I must have seen something with the wrong pub date when I requested it from the library!
ReplyDeleteSounds like 400 pages was a fortunate mistake at least!
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