I'm about a third of the way through the audiobook of A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton and it is SO good. A brilliant mix of autobiography and history, and so nice to have hypochondria written about with sensitivity, wisdom, and thorough knowledge.

Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner #ABookADayInMay Day 5 stuckinabook.com/joe-cinques-co… via Simon Thomas

Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner #ABookADayInMay Day 5 stuckinabook.com/joe-cinques-co… via Simon Thomas

Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner - day 5 of #ABookADayInMay : stuckinabook.com/joe-cinques-co…

A delightful reread for #ABookADayInMay - Day 4 stuckinabook.com/a-delightful-r… via Simon Thomas

A delightful reread for #ABookADayInMay - Day 4 stuckinabook.com/a-delightful-r… via Simon Thomas

This week Paul Wilson and I were joined by JacquiWine to talk about publishers who bring us out of print books. We each pick one publisher to highlight and discuss a couple of their books. We hope you enjoy! And please let us know what you’d highlight! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p/e…

I loved re-reading Cecil Beaton's delightful account of leasing, renovating, hosting and living at beautiful Ashcombe: stuckinabook.com/a-delightful-r…

Cmon Dairy Queen, you know it makes sense

Hahahahaa wow they really single out an Oxford Academic Very Short Introduction to Terrorism as a dangerous book.

Day 3 of #ABookADayInMay is Catherine Carswell's The Camomile - an unusual, interesting novel with a heroine I couldn't help loving: stuckinabook.com/the-camomile-b…

This also makes me think how often Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster references the bit in Ratatouille where food brings back a memory... when that moment is itself openly referencing Proust.

Is Audible UK 🎧 Plus Catalogue doing a big cull? Most of my plus catalogue downloads now say they're disappearing mid-May.

I absolutely love this photo project of fathers and sons holding hands, by Valery Poshtarov poshtarov.net

Mourning clothes in books! The rules are strict and complex, though the main one is that if a female character is thinking about how well black suits her, then she is not to be trusted. Plus mourning in white. Blogpost with (of course) pictures clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2024/05/mourni…

The rumours were true!!

Happy 10 years to one of the cornerstones of the book blogging world!

I read some Natalia Ginzburg and all is right with the world stuckinabook.com/valentino-by-n…