1976 Club
This page is for the latest of our club reads, books from the year 1976. Please join us in reading, exploring, commenting on and recommending any exciting books you’ve discovered! 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! 😀
REVIEWS
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore
The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
Tintin and the Picaros by Herge
The Wilt Books
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
The Plantagenet Prelude by Jean Plaidy
Roots by Alex Haley
Aventures in reading, running and working from home
A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
Bear by Marian Engel
Castle Barebane by Joan Aiken
Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones
Another Death in Venice by Reginald Hill
The Malacia Tapestry by Brian Aldiss
A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
Afternoon of a Good Woman by Nina Bawden
Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
Beard’s Roman Women by Anthony Burgess
The Voice of the Sea by Alberto Moravio
The Girls from the Five Great Valleys by Elizabeth Savage
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
The Space Machine by Christopher Priest
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Agent in Place by Helen MacInnes
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
The Golden Gate by Alistair MacLean
Hilda’s Wedding by Elizabeth Jolley
Travels by Jan Morris
Apalache by Paul Metcalf
Interview with the Vampire by Ann Rice
Orsinian Tales by Ursula Le Guin
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula Le Guin
Lucinella by Lore Segal
In the Purely Pagan Sense by John Lehmann
Julian Grenfell by Nicholas Mosley
The Question of Max by Amanda Cross
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
A Lifetime on Clouds by Gerald Murnane
The Takeover by Muriel Spark
Meridian by Alice Walker
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
The Widower’s Son by Alan Sillitoe
It concerns you too by Herman Sachnowitz
Ask for Me Tomorrow by Margaret Millar
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
Mockingbirds, Looking Glasses & Prejudices…
Home to Roost by Andrew Garve
Catch a Falling Spy by Len Deighton
A Little Local Murder by Robert Barnard
GENERAL POSTS
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings 
Oct 11, 2021 @ 09:08:27
Here’s my first one: Tintin: https://potpourri2015.wordpress.com/2021/10/11/book-review-tintin-and-the-picaros-by-herge-1976club/
Oct 11, 2021 @ 11:31:19
Fab! Will link later! 😀
Oct 11, 2021 @ 21:18:19
And here’s mine. A bit of a mish-mash of all the Tom Sharpe “Wilts”. https://www.josieholford.com/wilt/
Oct 12, 2021 @ 10:08:08
Thank you! Will check out and link later!
Oct 13, 2021 @ 05:08:42
And mine. A rather unflattering review of Anthony Burgess’ Beard’s Roman Women
https://www.gertloveday.wordpress.com
Oct 13, 2021 @ 11:50:47
Thanks – will check this out later! 😀
Oct 13, 2021 @ 18:17:22
Reginald Hill’s Another Death in Venice
Oct 13, 2021 @ 18:52:28
Thanks! will link!
Oct 13, 2021 @ 23:20:52
Here’s mine, and what a great book it was: Michael Ondaatje’s stunning debut novel: https://anzlitlovers.com/2021/10/14/coming-through-slaughter-by-michael-ondaatje/
Oct 14, 2021 @ 09:52:03
Excellent! 😀
Oct 14, 2021 @ 08:27:54
Here’s my second pick, Alistair MacLean’s The Golden Gate, just an ok read since it disappointed me on some counts: https://potpourri2015.wordpress.com/2021/10/14/book-review-the-golden-gate-by-alistair-maclean-1976club/
Oct 14, 2021 @ 09:50:49
Thanks – sorry it was just ok….
Oct 14, 2021 @ 10:00:30
But I loved the Tintin (which definitely turned out different than I thought–not just an adventure), and also Penelope Lively–that was absolutely wonderful. Yet to share that review, of course.
Oct 14, 2021 @ 10:30:34
Well, I’m glad that there have been some titles – I’ll look forward to your post on the Lively!
Oct 14, 2021 @ 08:53:32
I will probably only do my short story, as I did last time, but here it is: https://whisperinggums.com/2021/10/14/elizabeth-jolley-hildas-wedding-review/
Oct 14, 2021 @ 09:50:36
Thank you – will check this out later! 😀
Oct 15, 2021 @ 06:00:13
Hi Karen, I have just reviewed Interview With the Vampire (https://dolcebellezza2.wordpress.com/2021/10/12/the-1976-club-and-r-i-p-xvi-interview-with-the-vampire-by-anne-rice/) and now am beginning Agatha Christie’s Sleeping Murder. What a fun event this is! Thank you, Meredith
Oct 15, 2021 @ 10:18:00
Fab! I will check out and link later – glad you could join in! 😀
Oct 15, 2021 @ 12:13:55
Here’s two more for the #1976Club from Bookword
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
https://www.bookword.co.uk/blaming-by-elizabeth-taylor/
and The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
https://www.bookword.co.uk/the-bride-price-by-buchi-emecheta/
Lovely to take part in this. Caroline
Oct 15, 2021 @ 13:14:14
Thank you! Will check these out later! 😀
Oct 15, 2021 @ 14:49:25
Thanks Karen (and Simon!) for hosting – have loved reading all the reviews! Here’s my one of Alan Sillitoe’s The Widower’s Son:
https://10mh.net/2021/10/15/alan-sillitoes-the-widowers-son-review-for-the-1976-club/
Oct 20, 2021 @ 18:56:23
Aha! Just found your comment in the depths of spam!! Thank you for joining in and I’ve linked to your post! 😀
Oct 15, 2021 @ 20:58:44
For the #1976Club, a look at an outsider candidate for the Great American — or perhaps the Great North American — novel, Paul Metcalf’s Apalache:
https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=8588
Oct 16, 2021 @ 11:03:02
Thank you! 😀
Oct 16, 2021 @ 09:42:22
My final pick, A Stitch in Time: this I loved
Oct 16, 2021 @ 10:58:04
Fab! 😀
Oct 16, 2021 @ 16:40:16
My take on Wallace Stegner’s The Spectator Bird: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4283973557
Oct 17, 2021 @ 11:52:42
Thank you for joining in and sharing this! 😀
Oct 17, 2021 @ 21:03:59
“Renata Adler’s Speedboat? No, I’ve already read it once. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick? read it as a teenager. Alex Haley’s Roots? Nah. And Bear by Marian Engel just seemed too weird. I did find a possible pick in Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud a Solitude. I also considered placing a library order for Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster, but I changed my mind when I came across Herman Sachnowitz’s It concerns you too.”
Thank you for once again organizing this event, Simon and Karen!
It Concerns You Too by Herman Sachnowitz
https://kinshipofallspecies.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/it-concerns-you-too-herman-sachnowitz-1976/
Oct 18, 2021 @ 15:56:50
Most welcome and thank you for sharing your post – so glad you could join in! 😀
Oct 18, 2021 @ 02:52:26
Finally got my review up for my 1976 choice: Ask For Me Tomorrow by the wonderful Margaret Millar. I’d love for more people to read her psychological mysteries!
https://indextrious.blogspot.com/2021/10/ask-for-me-tomorrow.html
Oct 18, 2021 @ 10:01:25
Hurrah – thanks! 😀
Oct 18, 2021 @ 11:00:32
Here’s my review of Lucinella by Lore Segal. What a great week – thank you!
Oct 18, 2021 @ 15:55:40
Thank you for joining in! 😀
Oct 18, 2021 @ 21:14:41
I was another WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME reader: https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2021/10/the1976club-woman-on-edge-of-time-by.html
…only, for me, it wasn’t great. *sigh* I didn’t finish SHAKESPEARE’S PLANET, darn it, or THE MALACIA TAPESTRY, but they’ll get their just dues. Only later.
Thanks to you and Simon for doing these clubs! See you in 1954.
Oct 19, 2021 @ 14:15:30
Sorry it wasn’t great, but never mind – there’s always 1954 to look forward to! 😀
Oct 19, 2021 @ 16:12:13
I posted three reviews for 1976 books:
A Little Local Murder by Robert Barnard
http://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2021/10/1976club-little-local-murder.html
Catch a Falling Spy by Len Deighton
http://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2021/10/1976club-catch-falling-star.html
Home to Roost by Andrew Garve
http://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2021/10/1976club-home-to-roost.html
I loved them all.
Oct 19, 2021 @ 18:37:06
Fab, thank you! So glad you could take part and I will pop links above!!
Oct 19, 2021 @ 21:21:25
I love these Year Club challenges. Mine this time was Plantagenet Prelude by Jean Plaidy https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/1976-club-the-plantagenet-prelude-by-jean-plaidy-dnf/
Oct 20, 2021 @ 14:05:43
Lovely – will check this out later!