A Bluestocking Knits

Margery Sharp is on my list of "writers I think I would probably like but haven't read yet," and so when I saw The Nutmeg Tree on the list of books published in 1937, I said to myself, "Well, the time is now!" The story begins in medias bathtub, as…

Not for nothing are the 1930s called the "Golden Age" of detective fiction, and there were plenty to choose from when filling out my list of books for the 1937 Club!  I decided to go with authors I had not yet read, though I admit that when it came down…

I chose The White Stag by Kate Seredy for my next read for the 1937 Club partly because I've actually read very few Newbery Medal winners, and here was a chance to amend that, at least by one! The White Stag is the mythical retelling of the origins of a…

It was not difficult to find a copy of my next choice for the 1937 Club, as the public library down the street has a copy of Virginia Woolf's The Years. One cannot, I feel, read a person's diary and letters without considering them a friend, even if only at…

For the 1937 Club hosted by Simon of "Stuck in a Book" and Karen of "Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings", I made quite a decent-sized list of intriguing titles, then set out to see if I could find a copy of those, and of the ones I could on that rapidly-shrinking list,…

I came across The Far-Distant Oxus, as apparently many other readers have, by way of its appearance not only on Wikipedia's list of novels published in 1937 but on a number of if-you-like-"Swallows and Amazons"-you'll-like-this lists, and this plus the novelty that it was written by two schoolgirls, about the…

The 1937 Club is the latest iteration of an online book club hosted by Simon of "Stuck in a Book" — the only requirement is that the book one reads is published in the year in the current club's title! Not being able to produce off the top of my…