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Tea or Books? #105: Big Families vs Small Families and Animal Farm vs Nineteen Eighty-Four – Stuck in a Book

George Orwell and families – welcome to episode 105! Rachel is busy this month, so I put a shout-out on our Patreon page to see if anybody would be willing to step in and take her place. I wa…

Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell – Stuck in a Book

I’ve been reading D.J. Taylor’s enormous overview of 20th-century English literature on and off for four or five years. It’s called The Prose Factory, which isn’t a great ti…

Tea or Books? #79: Political Books (Yes or No?), and The Diary of a Bookseller vs Bookshop Memories – Stuck in a Book

Shaun Bythell, George Orwell, and a whole host of politicians – it’s episode 79! We have a special guest for this episode – my very good friend Lorna, who was meeting Rachel for t…

Refill the Swamp! | Michelle Nijhuis | The New York Review of Books

In January 1943, in a short essay published in The New Statesman and Nation, George Orwell surveyed his personal hoard of political pamphlets—a collection

The Reinvented Bildungsroman: Doris Lessing’s “The Summer Before the Dark” & “Children of Violence”; George Orwell’s “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”; and Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl” – Thornfield Hall

Like many avid readers of the bildungsroman, I have noted that coming-of-age novels never go out of fashion.  Not a week goes by that there is not a review of a new coming-of-age novel.  I often reread my favorites, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and The Mill on the Floss. My preference is for the nineteenth…

Reviews By Martha's Bookshelf: Audible Book Review: 1984: New Classic Edition by George Orwell

A Neglected Classic:  George Orwell’s “A Clergyman’s Daughter” – Thornfield Hall

When you think of George Orwell, you do not say, “Oh, yes, he wrote my favorite novel, A Clergyman’s Daughter!”  In fact, you’ve probably never heard of A Clergyman’s Daughter. His dystopian novels, 1984 and Animal Farm, dominate the Orwellian canon.  And yet A Clergyman’s Daughter is truly a neglected classic, a realistic character study…

Tea or Books? #127: Do We Have Guilty Pleasures? and A Clergyman’s Daughter vs The Vicar’s Daughter – Stuck in a Book

George Orwell, E.H. Young, guilty pleasures – welcome to episode 127! In the first half of the episode, we ask: what is our guiltiest reading pleasure? Has that changed over time? Do we feel …

ORWELL'S GHOSTS | Kirkus Reviews

A critical assessment of the contribution that George Orwell’s writings can make to contemporary social, economic, and political problems.

3 short reviews of eclectic reads: Anna Funder, Alan Fyfe & Natsume Sōseki – Reading Matters

Three short reviews of a book about George Orwell's wife, a Japanese classic from the early 20th century, and a novel about drug addicts living in Western Australia.