1929 Club
This page is for the latest of our club reads, books from the year 1929. I’ll collect here links to everyone’s posts, and if I miss yours please leave a comment so that I can add it in! Happy reading! 😀
Passing by Nella Larsen
Imogen is reading and watching the world
The Maracot Deep by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Luzhin Defence by Vladimir Nabokov
No Love by David Garnett
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Some Prefer Nettles by Junchirō Tanizaki
William by Richmal Crompton
Fool Errant by Patricia Wentworth
Craii de Curtea Veche by Mateiu Caragiale
Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer
The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell
Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse
Big Blonde by Dorothy Parker
The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
The Squire’s Daughter by F.M. Mayor
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
Paying Guests by E.F. Benson
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Water Weed by Alice Campbell
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Eve in Egypt
The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia
Mr Ma and Son by Lao She
Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Treasure House of Martin Hews by E. Phillips Oppenheim
I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasienski
The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
Mario and The Magician by Thomas Mann
Lizzy’s Literary Life (Volume 2)
Leporella by Stefan Zweig
Lizzy’s Literary Life (Volume 2)
The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers
Storm Bird by Mollie Panter-Downes
David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
Cloth of Gold by Elswyth Thane
Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck
Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
The Iron Man and the Tin Woman by Stephen Leacock
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
Barbarian Stories by Naomi Mitchison
Satan as Lightning by Basil King
The Doctor Who Held Hands by Hulbert Footner
I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson
Mr Mulliner Speaking by P.G. Wodehouse
Hill by Jean Giono
The Barrakee Mystery by Arthur Upfield
The Patient in Room 18 by Mignon G. Eberhart
Walking in Berlin by Franz Hessel
Living by Henry Green
The Murder on the Enriqueta by Molly Thynne
The Man Within by Graham Greene
A House is Built by M Barnard Eldershaw
Expiation by Elizabeth von Arnim
GENERAL POSTS
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings 
Oct 26, 2022 @ 10:46:59
My first pick: Mr Ma and Son by Lao She: https://potpourri2015.wordpress.com/2022/10/26/book-review-mr-ma-and-son-by-lao-she-translated-by-william-dolby-1929club/
Oct 26, 2022 @ 19:07:08
Here’s mine: The Treasure House of Martin Hews by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Oct 26, 2022 @ 19:15:51
Thank you! 😀
Oct 27, 2022 @ 12:23:36
My mom’s second pick: The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers
Oct 27, 2022 @ 14:27:27
Wonderful – thank you !
Oct 28, 2022 @ 15:27:43
Here’s a review of The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham https://harrietdevine.typepad.com/harriet_devines_blog/2022/10/the-crime-at-black-dudley-by-margery-allingham-1929-club.html
Oct 28, 2022 @ 18:49:39
Thanks Harriet! 😀
Oct 28, 2022 @ 19:17:38
Hi Karen
My 2nd entry: Josephine Tey’s The Man in the Queue
Oct 28, 2022 @ 19:19:20
Thank you! Have just commented and will link! 😀
Oct 29, 2022 @ 12:03:58
My contribution is Satan as Lightning by Basil King. It’s not the best of his novel’s, but I’m happy the club provided incentive to read it. The title had long intrigued me.
https://brianbusby.blogspot.com/2022/10/reverend-kings-slow-and-simple-swan-song.html
Oct 29, 2022 @ 12:41:25
Thank you! Will check out your post and link to it! 😀
Oct 29, 2022 @ 20:55:21
The Murder on the Enriqueta by Molly Thynne
Oct 30, 2022 @ 13:54:12
Thank you – will read and link later!
Oct 30, 2022 @ 04:27:44
Here’s my contribution:
Oct 30, 2022 @ 13:50:17
Thank you! Will check this out and link later! 😀
Oct 30, 2022 @ 08:18:11
Here is my more specific contrition: https://whisperinggums.com/2022/10/30/frederic-manning-the-middle-parts-of-fortune-ch-1-review/
Oct 30, 2022 @ 13:47:17
Thank you! I will read and link later! 😀
Oct 30, 2022 @ 16:16:15
My final reads: The Barrakee mystery by Arthur Upfield and The Patient in Room 18 by Mignon G. Eberhart
Thanks for hosting. Eagerly waiting for the announcement of the next club.
Oct 30, 2022 @ 18:01:59
Thank you – will read and link later!